Commit 517caa1e authored by Eugene Surovegin's avatar Eugene Surovegin Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

[PATCH] I2C: fix recently introduced race in IBM PPC4xx I2C driver

On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 10:21:08PM -0700, Eugene Surovegin wrote:
[snip]
> It looks like this change added race I tried to avoid here.
>
> This code is modeled after __wait_event_interruptible_timeout, where
> "prepare_to_wait" is done _before_ checking completion status. This
> change breaks this, e.g. if IRQ happens right after we check iic->sts,
> but before calling msleep_interruptible(). In this case we'll sleep
> much more than required (seconds instead of microseconds)
>
> Greg, if my analysis is correct, please rollback this change.
>
> Nishanth, I'd be nice if you CC'ed me with this patch, my e-mail is at
> the top of that source file.

Oh, well. I should have used wait_event_interruptible_timeout when I
ported this driver to 2.6.

This patch fixes recently introduced race and also cleans ups some
2.4-ism.
Signed-off-by: default avatarEugene Surovegin <ebs@ebshome.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>
parent f779a838
...@@ -412,18 +412,12 @@ static int iic_wait_for_tc(struct ibm_iic_private* dev){ ...@@ -412,18 +412,12 @@ static int iic_wait_for_tc(struct ibm_iic_private* dev){
if (dev->irq >= 0){ if (dev->irq >= 0){
/* Interrupt mode */ /* Interrupt mode */
wait_queue_t wait; ret = wait_event_interruptible_timeout(dev->wq,
init_waitqueue_entry(&wait, current); !(in_8(&iic->sts) & STS_PT), dev->adap.timeout * HZ);
add_wait_queue(&dev->wq, &wait); if (unlikely(ret < 0))
if (in_8(&iic->sts) & STS_PT)
msleep_interruptible(dev->adap.timeout * 1000);
remove_wait_queue(&dev->wq, &wait);
if (unlikely(signal_pending(current))){
DBG("%d: wait interrupted\n", dev->idx); DBG("%d: wait interrupted\n", dev->idx);
ret = -ERESTARTSYS; else if (unlikely(in_8(&iic->sts) & STS_PT)){
} else if (unlikely(in_8(&iic->sts) & STS_PT)){
DBG("%d: wait timeout\n", dev->idx); DBG("%d: wait timeout\n", dev->idx);
ret = -ETIMEDOUT; ret = -ETIMEDOUT;
} }
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