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From: Eugene Surovegin <ebs@ebshome.net>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sensors@stimpy.netroedge.com,
	Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH] fix recently introduced race in IBM PPC4xx I2C driver
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 23:26:33 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041020062633.GA16580@gate.ebshome.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041020052108.GA14871@gate.ebshome.net>

On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 10:21:08PM -0700, Eugene Surovegin wrote:

[snip]

> It looks like this change added race I tried to avoid here.
> 
> This code is modeled after __wait_event_interruptible_timeout, where 
> "prepare_to_wait" is done _before_ checking completion status. This 
> change breaks this, e.g. if IRQ happens right after we check iic->sts, 
> but before calling msleep_interruptible(). In this case we'll sleep 
> much more than required (seconds instead of microseconds)
> 
> Greg, if my analysis is correct, please rollback this change.
> 
> Nishanth, I'd be nice if you CC'ed me with this patch, my e-mail is at 
> the top of that source file.

Oh, well. I should have used wait_event_interruptible_timeout when I 
ported this driver to 2.6.

This patch fixes recently introduced race and also cleans ups some 
2.4-ism.

Please, apply.

Signed-off-by: Eugene Surovegin <ebs@ebshome.net>

===== drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-ibm_iic.c 1.12 vs edited =====
--- 1.12/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-ibm_iic.c	2004-10-14 11:30:08 -07:00
+++ edited/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-ibm_iic.c	2004-10-19 23:18:16 -07:00
@@ -412,18 +412,12 @@
 	
 	if (dev->irq >= 0){
 		/* Interrupt mode */
-		wait_queue_t wait;
-    		init_waitqueue_entry(&wait, current);
-		
-		add_wait_queue(&dev->wq, &wait);
-		if (in_8(&iic->sts) & STS_PT)
-			msleep_interruptible(dev->adap.timeout * 1000);
-		remove_wait_queue(&dev->wq, &wait);
-		
-		if (unlikely(signal_pending(current))){
+		ret = wait_event_interruptible_timeout(dev->wq, 
+			!(in_8(&iic->sts) & STS_PT), dev->adap.timeout * HZ);
+
+		if (unlikely(ret < 0))
 			DBG("%d: wait interrupted\n", dev->idx);
-			ret = -ERESTARTSYS;
-		} else if (unlikely(in_8(&iic->sts) & STS_PT)){
+		else if (unlikely(in_8(&iic->sts) & STS_PT)){
 			DBG("%d: wait timeout\n", dev->idx);
 			ret = -ETIMEDOUT;
 		}


  reply	other threads:[~2004-10-20  6:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-20  0:16 [BK PATCH] I2C update for 2.6.9 Greg KH
2004-10-20  0:18 ` [PATCH] " Greg KH
2004-10-20  0:18   ` Greg KH
2004-10-20  0:18     ` Greg KH
2004-10-20  0:18       ` Greg KH
2004-10-20  0:18         ` Greg KH
2004-10-20  0:18           ` Greg KH
2004-10-20  0:18             ` Greg KH
2004-10-20  0:18               ` Greg KH
2004-10-20  0:18                 ` Greg KH
2004-10-20  0:18                   ` Greg KH
2004-10-20  0:18                     ` Greg KH
2004-10-20  0:18                       ` Greg KH
2004-10-20  0:18                         ` Greg KH
2004-10-20  0:18                           ` Greg KH
2004-10-20  0:18                             ` Greg KH
2004-10-20  0:18                               ` Greg KH
2004-10-20  0:18                                 ` Greg KH
2004-10-20  0:18                                   ` Greg KH
2004-10-20  0:18                                     ` Greg KH
2004-10-20  0:18                                       ` Greg KH
2004-10-20  0:18                                         ` Greg KH
2004-10-20  0:18                                           ` Greg KH
2004-10-20  0:18                                             ` Greg KH
2004-10-20  0:18                                               ` Greg KH
2004-10-20  0:18                                                 ` Greg KH
2004-10-20  0:18                                                   ` Greg KH
2004-10-20  0:18                                                     ` Greg KH
2004-10-20  0:18                                                       ` Greg KH
2004-10-20  0:18                                                         ` Greg KH
2004-10-20  0:18                                                           ` Greg KH
2004-10-20  0:18                                                             ` Greg KH
2004-10-20  0:18                                                               ` Greg KH
2004-10-20  5:21                                                   ` Eugene Surovegin
2004-10-20  6:26                                                     ` Eugene Surovegin [this message]
2004-10-22 19:55                                                       ` [PATCH] fix recently introduced race in IBM PPC4xx I2C driver Greg KH
2004-10-25 18:29                                               ` [PATCH] I2C update for 2.6.9 Bill Davidsen
2004-10-25 20:54                                                 ` Jean Delvare
2004-10-26 21:03                                                   ` Bill Davidsen
2004-10-20 15:57 ` [BK PATCH] " Jean Delvare
2004-10-20 16:40   ` Lee Revell
2004-10-22 21:34 ` Jean Delvare

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