linux-kernel - [char-misc-next] mei: remove support for broken parallel read

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Date:   Wed,  8 Feb 2017 00:41:45 +0200
From:   Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@...el.com>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     Alexander Usyskin <alexander.usyskin@...el.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, "#4 . 9" <stable@...r.kernel.org>,
        Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@...el.com>
Subject: [char-misc-next] mei: remove support for broken parallel read

From: Alexander Usyskin <alexander.usyskin@...el.com>

Parallel reads from multiple threads on a file descriptor
are not well defined and racy. It is safer to return to original
behavior and simply fail the additional read.
The solution is to remove request for next read credit.

Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org> #4.9
Fixes: ff1586a7ea57 ("mei: enqueue consecutive reads")
Signed-off-by: Alexander Usyskin <alexander.usyskin@...el.com>
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@...el.com>
---
 drivers/misc/mei/main.c | 48 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------
 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/misc/mei/main.c b/drivers/misc/mei/main.c
index e1bf54481fd6..9d0b7050c79a 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/mei/main.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/mei/main.c
@@ -182,32 +182,36 @@ static ssize_t mei_read(struct file *file, char __user *ubuf,
 		goto out;
 	}
 
-	if (rets == -EBUSY &&
-	    !mei_cl_enqueue_ctrl_wr_cb(cl, length, MEI_FOP_READ, file)) {
-		rets = -ENOMEM;
-		goto out;
-	}
 
-	do {
-		mutex_unlock(&dev->device_lock);
-
-		if (wait_event_interruptible(cl->rx_wait,
-					     (!list_empty(&cl->rd_completed)) ||
-					     (!mei_cl_is_connected(cl)))) {
+again:
+	mutex_unlock(&dev->device_lock);
+	if (wait_event_interruptible(cl->rx_wait,
+				     !list_empty(&cl->rd_completed) ||
+				     !mei_cl_is_connected(cl))) {
+		if (signal_pending(current))
+			return -EINTR;
+		return -ERESTARTSYS;
+	}
+	mutex_lock(&dev->device_lock);
 
-			if (signal_pending(current))
-				return -EINTR;
-			return -ERESTARTSYS;
-		}
+	if (!mei_cl_is_connected(cl)) {
+		rets = -ENODEV;
+		goto out;
+	}
 
-		mutex_lock(&dev->device_lock);
-		if (!mei_cl_is_connected(cl)) {
-			rets = -ENODEV;
-			goto out;
-		}
+	cb = mei_cl_read_cb(cl, file);
+	if (!cb) {
+		/*
+		 * For amthif all the waiters are woken up,
+		 * but only fp with matching cb->fp get the cb,
+		 * the others have to return to wait on read.
+		 */
+		if (cl == &dev->iamthif_cl)
+			goto again;
 
-		cb = mei_cl_read_cb(cl, file);
-	} while (!cb);
+		rets = 0;
+		goto out;
+	}
 
 copy_buffer:
 	/* now copy the data to user space */
-- 
2.7.4