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    serial: pl011: Fix DMA ->flush_buffer() · 4fca5202
    Vincent Whitchurch authored
    commit f6a19647 upstream.
    
    PL011's ->flush_buffer() implementation releases and reacquires the port
    lock.  Due to a race condition here, data can end up being added to the
    circular buffer but neither being discarded nor being sent out.  This
    leads to, for example, tcdrain(2) waiting indefinitely.
    
    Process A                       Process B
    
    uart_flush_buffer()
     - acquire lock
     - circ_clear
     - pl011_flush_buffer()
     -- release lock
     -- dmaengine_terminate_all()
    
                                    uart_write()
                                    - acquire lock
                                    - add chars to circ buffer
                                    - start_tx()
                                    -- start DMA
                                    - release lock
    
     -- acquire lock
     -- turn off DMA
     -- release lock
    
                                    // Data in circ buffer but DMA is off
    
    According to the comment in the code, the releasing of the lock around
    dmaengine_terminate_all() is to avoid a deadlock with the DMA engine
    callback.  However, since the time this code was written, the DMA engine
    API documentation seems to have been clarified to say that
    dmaengine_terminate_all() (in the identically implemented but
    differently named dmaengine_terminate_async() variant) does not wait for
    any running complete callback to be completed and can even be called
    from a complete callback.  So there is no possibility of deadlock if the
    DMA engine driver implements this API correctly.
    
    So we should be able to just remove this release and reacquire of the
    lock to prevent the aforementioned race condition.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarVincent Whitchurch <vincent.whitchurch@axis.com>
    Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191118092547.32135-1-vincent.whitchurch@axis.comSigned-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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