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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2] serial: pl011: Move uart_register_driver call to device probe
On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 12:07:17AM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 03:26:06PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 06:42:49PM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > > We went through this before, and I stated the paths, and no one disagreed
> > > with that.
> > >
> > > It /is/ racy.
> >
> > Ok, I just went and looked at the uart driver register path, and I don't
> > see the race (note, if there is one, it's there today, regardless of
> > this patch).
>
> The race isn't the uart code, it's the driver model.
>
> Consider what happens when this happens:
>
> * Two pl011 devices get registered at the same time by two different
> threads.

How? What two different busses will see this same device? The amba bus
code should prevent that from happening, right? If not, there's bigger
problems in that bus code :)

That's where this problem should be fixed, if there is one, otherwise
this same issue would be there for any type of driver that calles into
the uart core, right?

> * Both devices have a lock taken on the _device_ itself before matching
> against the driver.
>
> * Both devices get matched to the same driver.
>
> * Both devices are passed into the driver's probe function.
>
> * Both check uart_reg.state, both call uart_register_driver() on that
> at the same time, which results in two allocations inside
> uart_register_driver(), one gets overwritten...
>
> So, the /only/ thing which stops this happening is that the devices
> are generally available before the driver is registered, and driver
> registration results in devices being probed serially. Moreover, both
> attempt to call tty_register_driver()... one succeeds, the other fails.
>
> However, what about the userspace bind/unbind methods. Yes, userspace
> can ask the driver core to unbind devices from a driver or bind - and
> again, there's no per-driver locking here. So, if you can trigger two
> concurrent binds from userspace, you hit the same race as above.
>
> So, if you want to accept these patches, go ahead, introduce races, but
> personally I'd recommend plugging these races.

The only way to solve this would be to do it in the bus, I don't see
anything here that makes it any "racier" than it currently is.

thanks,

greg k-h


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