From: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com>
To: Ginger Li <ginger.jzllee@gmail.com>,
mchehab@kernel.org, sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com
Cc: linux-media@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] media: i2c: ov5648: Fix a data race on state->streaming
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2026 15:11:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <179017269592.2497080.16397128200359093970@ping.linuxembedded.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260923015631.44973-1-ginger.jzllee@gmail.com>
Quoting Ginger Li (2026-09-23 02:56:31)
> ov5648_s_stream() updates state->streaming after it has released
> sensor->mutex, while ov5648_resume() reads that field with sensor->mutex
> held. A concurrent resume can therefore observe a stale streaming state and
> leave the sensor in standby while the software believes that it is streaming,
> or the other way around.
>
> Keep the update inside the sensor->mutex protected section that already
> programs the standby mode.
>
> Fixes: e43ccb0a045f ("media: i2c: Add support for the OV5648 image sensor")
> Signed-off-by: Ginger Li <ginger.jzllee@gmail.com>
> ---
> drivers/media/i2c/ov5648.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/media/i2c/ov5648.c b/drivers/media/i2c/ov5648.c
> --- a/drivers/media/i2c/ov5648.c
> +++ b/drivers/media/i2c/ov5648.c
> @@ -2145,12 +2145,12 @@ static int ov5648_s_stream(struct v4l2_subdev *subdev,
>
> mutex_lock(&sensor->mutex);
> ret = ov5648_sw_standby(sensor, !enable);
> + if (!ret)
> + state->streaming = !!enable;
I see streaming is accessed in ov5648_suspend and ov5648_resume with the
lock held indeed, so I think this makes sense:
Reviewed-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com>
> mutex_unlock(&sensor->mutex);
>
> if (ret)
> return ret;
> -
> - state->streaming = !!enable;
>
> if (!enable)
> pm_runtime_put(sensor->dev);
> --
> 2.43.0
>
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