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Message-ID: <1575426135.31411.2.camel@mtksdaap41>
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2019 10:22:15 +0800
From: CK Hu <ck.hu@...iatek.com>
To: Bibby Hsieh <bibby.hsieh@...iatek.com>,
Jassi Brar <jassisinghbrar@...il.com>
CC: Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@...il.com>,
Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>, <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
<linux-mediatek@...ts.infradead.org>,
<srv_heupstream@...iatek.com>,
"Nicolas Boichat" <drinkcat@...omium.org>,
Dennis-YC Hsieh <dennis-yc.hsieh@...iatek.com>,
Houlong Wei <houlong.wei@...iatek.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] soc: mediatek: cmdq: avoid racing condition with mutex
Hi, Jassi:
Are mbox_send_message() and mbox_client_txdone() thread-safe? If these
two are thread-safe, this bug should be fixed in mailbox core not
client.
Regards,
CK
On Thu, 2019-11-21 at 15:29 +0800, Bibby Hsieh wrote:
> If cmdq client is multi thread user, racing will occur without mutex
> protection. It will make the C message queued in mailbox's queue
> always need D message's triggering.
>
> Thread A Thread B Thread C Thread D...
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> mbox_send_message()
> send_data()
> mbox_send_message()
> *exit
> mbox_send_message()
> *exit
> mbox_client_txdone()
> tx_tick()
> mbox_client_txdone()
> tx_tick()
> mbox_client_txdone()
> tx_tick()
> msg_submit()
> send_data()
> msg_submit()
> *exit
> msg_submit()
> *exit
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Signed-off-by: Bibby Hsieh <bibby.hsieh@...iatek.com>
> ---
> drivers/soc/mediatek/mtk-cmdq-helper.c | 3 +++
> include/linux/soc/mediatek/mtk-cmdq.h | 1 +
> 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/soc/mediatek/mtk-cmdq-helper.c b/drivers/soc/mediatek/mtk-cmdq-helper.c
> index 9add0fd5fa6c..9e35e0beffaa 100644
> --- a/drivers/soc/mediatek/mtk-cmdq-helper.c
> +++ b/drivers/soc/mediatek/mtk-cmdq-helper.c
> @@ -81,6 +81,7 @@ struct cmdq_client *cmdq_mbox_create(struct device *dev, int index, u32 timeout)
> client->client.dev = dev;
> client->client.tx_block = false;
> client->chan = mbox_request_channel(&client->client, index);
> + mutex_init(&client->mutex);
>
> if (IS_ERR(client->chan)) {
> long err;
> @@ -352,9 +353,11 @@ int cmdq_pkt_flush_async(struct cmdq_pkt *pkt, cmdq_async_flush_cb cb,
> spin_unlock_irqrestore(&client->lock, flags);
> }
>
> + mutex_lock(&client->mutex);
> mbox_send_message(client->chan, pkt);
> /* We can send next packet immediately, so just call txdone. */
> mbox_client_txdone(client->chan, 0);
> + mutex_unlock(&client->mutex);
>
> return 0;
> }
> diff --git a/include/linux/soc/mediatek/mtk-cmdq.h b/include/linux/soc/mediatek/mtk-cmdq.h
> index a74c1d5acdf3..0f9071cd1bc7 100644
> --- a/include/linux/soc/mediatek/mtk-cmdq.h
> +++ b/include/linux/soc/mediatek/mtk-cmdq.h
> @@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ struct cmdq_client {
> struct mbox_chan *chan;
> struct timer_list timer;
> u32 timeout_ms; /* in unit of microsecond */
> + struct mutex mutex;
> };
>
> /**
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