linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/4 v4] rtc: add rtc-driver for HID sensors of type time

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Date:	Fri, 14 Dec 2012 16:24:35 +0100
From:	Alexander Holler <holler@...oftware.de>
To:	Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@...afoo.de>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-iio@...r.kernel.org,
	Jonathan Cameron <jic23@....ac.uk>, rtc-linux@...glegroups.com,
	Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@...ertech.it>,
	srinivas pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@...el.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4 v4] rtc: add rtc-driver for HID sensors of type time

Am 14.12.2012 15:34, schrieb Lars-Peter Clausen:
> On 12/14/2012 03:29 PM, Alexander Holler wrote:
>> Am 14.12.2012 15:15, schrieb Alexander Holler:
>>> Am 14.12.2012 14:08, schrieb Alexander Holler:
>>>> Am 14.12.2012 10:42, schrieb Lars-Peter Clausen:
>>>
>>>>> And another thing I've overlooked before:
>>>>> wait_for_completion_interruptible_timeout can either return a positive
>>>>> number when the completion was completed, 0 in case of an timeout, or a
>>>>> negative error code in case it was interrupted. You need to handle all
>>>>> three. E.g. something like this.
>>>>>
>>>>> ret = wait_for_completion_interruptible_timeout(...)
>>>>> if (ret == 0)
>>>>>     return -EIO;
>>>>> if (ret < 0)
>>>>>     return ret
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hmpf, the only working approach to use some in kernel functions really
>>>> is to the read source yourself and don't trust anything else. :/
>>>
>>> Anyway, my approach doesn't work as it introduces a race condition:
>>>
>>>
>>> /* get a report with all values through requesting one value */
>>> sensor_hub_input_attr_get_raw_value(...)
>>>
>>> /* race if this task goes to slepp and the values were
>>> received before it could call the below wait...
>>>
>>> /* wait for all values (event) */
>>> if (!wait_for_completion_interruptible_timeout(...))
>>>
>>>
>>> I'll have to look for a mechanism how to avoid that. So v5 might need
>>> some time.
>>
>> Sorry for the noise. That INIT_COMPLETION() before the sensor...() does
>> exactly that. So it's enough if I handle the different return situations of
>> wait_for...().
>>
>> I will just use if(wait...()<=0) return -EIO.
>>
> 
> No, that's wrong. You should really return the error code returned by
> wait_for_completion_interruptible_timeout(). This will make sure that
> userspace restarts the syscall if necessary.

Sorry for my ignorance, but which reasons for interruption do exist
which doesn't kill the userspace too? The error number -ESYSRESTART
doesn't offer a hint.

Alexander
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