[PATCH v3 05/12] spi: spi-fsl-dspi: Protect against races on dspi->words_in_flight

From: Vladimir Oltean
Date: Sat Mar 14 2020 - 21:37:36 EST


From: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@xxxxxxx>

dspi->words_in_flight is a variable populated in the *_write functions
and used in the dspi_fifo_read function. It is also used in
dspi_fifo_write, immediately after transmission, to update the
message->actual_length variable used by higher layers such as spi-mem
for integrity checking.

But it may happen that the IRQ which calls dspi_fifo_read to be
triggered before the updating of message->actual_length takes place. In
that case, dspi_fifo_read will decrement dspi->words_in_flight to -1,
and that will cause an invalid modification of message->actual_length.

Make the simplest fix possible: don't decrement the actual shared
variable in dspi->words_in_flight from dspi_fifo_read, but actually a
copy of it which is on stack.

Suggested-by: Michael Walle <michael@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@xxxxxxx>
---
Changes in v4:
Patch is new.

drivers/spi/spi-fsl-dspi.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/spi/spi-fsl-dspi.c b/drivers/spi/spi-fsl-dspi.c
index 51224b772680..3ac004aa2abd 100644
--- a/drivers/spi/spi-fsl-dspi.c
+++ b/drivers/spi/spi-fsl-dspi.c
@@ -765,8 +765,10 @@ static u32 dspi_popr_read(struct fsl_dspi *dspi)

static void dspi_fifo_read(struct fsl_dspi *dspi)
{
+ int num_fifo_entries = dspi->words_in_flight;
+
/* Read one FIFO entry and push to rx buffer */
- while (dspi->words_in_flight--)
+ while (num_fifo_entries--)
dspi_push_rx(dspi, dspi_popr_read(dspi));
}

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