linux-kernel - [PATCH] Revert "tty: serial: simplify qcom_geni_serial_send_chunk

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Date: Mon,  4 Mar 2024 17:49:53 -0800
From: Douglas Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc: Stephen Boyd <swboyd@...omium.org>,
	Douglas Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>,
	Bjorn Andersson <andersson@...nel.org>,
	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...nel.org>,
	Konrad Dybcio <konrad.dybcio@...aro.org>,
	linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-serial@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] Revert "tty: serial: simplify qcom_geni_serial_send_chunk_fifo()"

This reverts commit 5c7e105cd156fc9adf5294a83623d7a40c15f9b9.

As identified by KASAN, the simplification done by the cleanup patch
was not legal.

>From tracing through the code, it can be seen that we're transmitting
from a 4096-byte circular buffer. We copy anywhere from 1-4 bytes from
it each time. The simplification runs into trouble when we get near
the end of the circular buffer. For instance, we might start out with
xmit->tail = 4094 and we want to transfer 4 bytes. With the code
before simplification this was no problem. We'd read buf[4094],
buf[4095], buf[0], and buf[1]. With the new code we'll do a
memcpy(&buf[4094], 4) which reads 2 bytes past the end of the buffer
and then skips transmitting what's at buf[0] and buf[1].

KASAN isn't 100% consistent at reporting this for me, but to be extra
confident in the analysis, I added traces of the tail and tx_bytes and
then wrote a test program:

  while true; do
    echo -n "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0" > /dev/ttyMSM0
    sleep .1
  done

I watched the traces over SSH and saw:
  qcom_geni_serial_send_chunk_fifo: 4093 4
  qcom_geni_serial_send_chunk_fifo: 1 3

Which indicated that one byte should be missing. Sure enough the
output that should have been:

  abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0

In one case was actually missing a byte:

  abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwyz0

Running "ls -al" on large directories also made the missing bytes
obvious since columns didn't line up.

While the original code may not be the most elegant, we only talking
about copying up to 4 bytes here. Let's just go back to the code that
worked.

Fixes: 5c7e105cd156 ("tty: serial: simplify qcom_geni_serial_send_chunk_fifo()")
Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>
---
If folks really want me to, I can adjust the patch to try to detect if
the circular buffer is going to wrap and still use the memcpy(). Let
me know.

 drivers/tty/serial/qcom_geni_serial.c | 10 ++++++----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/qcom_geni_serial.c b/drivers/tty/serial/qcom_geni_serial.c
index e63a8fbe63bd..99e08737f293 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/qcom_geni_serial.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/qcom_geni_serial.c
@@ -851,19 +851,21 @@ static void qcom_geni_serial_stop_tx(struct uart_port *uport)
 }
 
 static void qcom_geni_serial_send_chunk_fifo(struct uart_port *uport,
-					     unsigned int remaining)
+					     unsigned int chunk)
 {
 	struct qcom_geni_serial_port *port = to_dev_port(uport);
 	struct circ_buf *xmit = &uport->state->xmit;
-	unsigned int tx_bytes;
+	unsigned int tx_bytes, c, remaining = chunk;
 	u8 buf[BYTES_PER_FIFO_WORD];
 
 	while (remaining) {
 		memset(buf, 0, sizeof(buf));
 		tx_bytes = min(remaining, BYTES_PER_FIFO_WORD);
 
-		memcpy(buf, &xmit->buf[xmit->tail], tx_bytes);
-		uart_xmit_advance(uport, tx_bytes);
+		for (c = 0; c < tx_bytes ; c++) {
+			buf[c] = xmit->buf[xmit->tail];
+			uart_xmit_advance(uport, 1);
+		}
 
 		iowrite32_rep(uport->membase + SE_GENI_TX_FIFOn, buf, 1);
 
-- 
2.44.0.rc1.240.g4c46232300-goog