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;
}
next prev parent 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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