linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.14 037/238] i2c: at91: Fix a race condition during signal handling in at91_do_twi

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Date:	Fri,  3 Oct 2014 14:29:12 -0700
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	stable@...r.kernel.org, Simon Lindgren <simon@...ary.com>,
	Ludovic Desroches <ludovic.desroches@...el.com>,
	Wolfram Sang <wsa@...-dreams.de>
Subject: [PATCH 3.14 037/238] i2c: at91: Fix a race condition during signal handling in at91_do_twi_xfer.

3.14-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Simon Lindgren <simon@...ary.com>

commit 6721f28a26efd6368497abbdef5dcfc59608d899 upstream.

There is a race condition in at91_do_twi_xfer when signals arrive.
If a signal is recieved while waiting for a transfer to complete
wait_for_completion_interruptible_timeout() will return -ERESTARTSYS.
This is not handled correctly resulting in interrupts still being
enabled and a transfer being in flight when we return.

Symptoms include a range of oopses and bus lockups. Oopses can happen
when the transfer completes because the interrupt handler will corrupt
the stack. If a new transfer is started before the interrupt fires
the controller will start a new transfer in the middle of the old one,
resulting in confused slaves and a locked bus.

To avoid this, use wait_for_completion_io_timeout instead so that we
don't have to deal with gracefully shutting down the transfer and
disabling the interrupts.

Signed-off-by: Simon Lindgren <simon@...ary.com>
Acked-by: Ludovic Desroches <ludovic.desroches@...el.com>
Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@...-dreams.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-at91.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-at91.c
+++ b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-at91.c
@@ -434,8 +434,8 @@ static int at91_do_twi_transfer(struct a
 		}
 	}

-	ret = wait_for_completion_interruptible_timeout(&dev->cmd_complete,
-							dev->adapter.timeout);
+	ret = wait_for_completion_io_timeout(&dev->cmd_complete,
+					     dev->adapter.timeout);
 	if (ret == 0) {
 		dev_err(dev->dev, "controller timed out\n");
 		at91_init_twi_bus(dev);

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