linux-kernel - [PATCH v3 05/12] spi: spi-fsl-dspi: Protect against races on dspi->words_in

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Message-Id: <20200314224340.1544-6-olteanv@gmail.com>
Date:   Sun, 15 Mar 2020 00:43:33 +0200
From:   Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>
To:     broonie@...nel.org
Cc:     linux-spi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        shawnguo@...nel.org, robh+dt@...nel.org, mark.rutland@....com,
        devicetree@...r.kernel.org, eha@...f.com, angelo@...am.it,
        andrew.smirnov@...il.com, gustavo@...eddedor.com, weic@...dia.com,
        mhosny@...dia.com, michael@...le.cc, peng.ma@....com
Subject: [PATCH v3 05/12] spi: spi-fsl-dspi: Protect against races on dspi->words_in_flight

From: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com>

dspi->words_in_flight is a variable populated in the *_write functions
and used in the dspi_fifo_read function. It is also used in
dspi_fifo_write, immediately after transmission, to update the
message->actual_length variable used by higher layers such as spi-mem
for integrity checking.

But it may happen that the IRQ which calls dspi_fifo_read to be
triggered before the updating of message->actual_length takes place. In
that case, dspi_fifo_read will decrement dspi->words_in_flight to -1,
and that will cause an invalid modification of message->actual_length.

Make the simplest fix possible: don't decrement the actual shared
variable in dspi->words_in_flight from dspi_fifo_read, but actually a
copy of it which is on stack.

Suggested-by: Michael Walle <michael@...le.cc>
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com>
---
Changes in v4:
Patch is new.

 drivers/spi/spi-fsl-dspi.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/spi/spi-fsl-dspi.c b/drivers/spi/spi-fsl-dspi.c
index 51224b772680..3ac004aa2abd 100644
--- a/drivers/spi/spi-fsl-dspi.c
+++ b/drivers/spi/spi-fsl-dspi.c
@@ -765,8 +765,10 @@ static u32 dspi_popr_read(struct fsl_dspi *dspi)

 static void dspi_fifo_read(struct fsl_dspi *dspi)
 {
+	int num_fifo_entries = dspi->words_in_flight;
+
 	/* Read one FIFO entry and push to rx buffer */
-	while (dspi->words_in_flight--)
+	while (num_fifo_entries--)
 		dspi_push_rx(dspi, dspi_popr_read(dspi));
 }

-- 
2.17.1