Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] ps3: vuart: fix error path locking

From: Geoff Levand <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 19:04:58 -0800

On 12/18/2007 05:10 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 18:00:12 -0800
> Geoff Levand <[email-masked]> wrote:
> 
>> > This stray down would cause a permanent sleep which doesn't seem correct. 
>> > The other uses of this semaphore appear fairly mutex like it's even initialized
>> > with init_MUTEX() ..  So here a patch for removing this one down().
>> > 
>> > Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <[email-masked]>
>> > 
>> > ---
>> >  drivers/ps3/ps3-vuart.c |    1 -
>> >  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>> 
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Geoff Levand <[email-masked]>
>> 
>> 
>> Looks, good. 
> 
> Looks bad to me.

Hi Andrew,

Unfortunately there wasn't enough context in the patch to see
that there is a down() earlier in the routine, and that the patch
does indeed remove an incorrectly placed down().  Here is the
entire routine, marked with what the patch removes.

static int ps3_vuart_probe(struct ps3_system_bus_device *dev)
{
	int result;
	struct ps3_vuart_port_driver *drv;
	struct ps3_vuart_port_priv *priv = NULL;

	dev_dbg(&dev->core, "%s:%d\n", __func__, __LINE__);

	drv = ps3_system_bus_dev_to_vuart_drv(dev);

	dev_dbg(&dev->core, "%s:%d: (%s)\n", __func__, __LINE__,
		drv->core.core.name);

	BUG_ON(!drv);

	if (dev->port_number >= PORT_COUNT) {
		BUG();
		return -EINVAL;
	}

	down(&vuart_bus_priv.probe_mutex);

	result = ps3_vuart_bus_interrupt_get();

	if (result)
		goto fail_setup_interrupt;

	if (vuart_bus_priv.devices[dev->port_number]) {
		dev_dbg(&dev->core, "%s:%d: port busy (%d)\n", __func__,
			__LINE__, dev->port_number);
		result = -EBUSY;
		goto fail_busy;
	}

	vuart_bus_priv.devices[dev->port_number] = dev;

	/* Setup dev->driver_priv. */

	dev->driver_priv = kzalloc(sizeof(struct ps3_vuart_port_priv),
		GFP_KERNEL);

	if (!dev->driver_priv) {
		result = -ENOMEM;
		goto fail_dev_malloc;
	}

	priv = to_port_priv(dev);

	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&priv->tx_list.head);
	spin_lock_init(&priv->tx_list.lock);

	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&priv->rx_list.head);
	spin_lock_init(&priv->rx_list.lock);

	INIT_WORK(&priv->rx_list.work.work, NULL);
	priv->rx_list.work.trigger = 0;
	priv->rx_list.work.dev = dev;

	/* clear stale pending interrupts */

	ps3_vuart_clear_rx_bytes(dev, 0);

	ps3_vuart_set_interrupt_mask(dev, INTERRUPT_MASK_RX);

	ps3_vuart_set_triggers(dev, 1, 1);

	if (drv->probe)
		result = drv->probe(dev);
	else {
		result = 0;
		dev_info(&dev->core, "%s:%d: no probe method\n", __func__,
			__LINE__);
	}

	if (result) {
		dev_dbg(&dev->core, "%s:%d: drv->probe failed\n",
			__func__, __LINE__);
removed >>>>>>	down(&vuart_bus_priv.probe_mutex); <<<<<<<<<<<
		goto fail_probe;
	}

	up(&vuart_bus_priv.probe_mutex);

	return result;

fail_probe:
	ps3_vuart_set_interrupt_mask(dev, 0);
	kfree(dev->driver_priv);
	dev->driver_priv = NULL;
fail_dev_malloc:
	vuart_bus_priv.devices[dev->port_number] = NULL;
fail_busy:
	ps3_vuart_bus_interrupt_put();
fail_setup_interrupt:
	up(&vuart_bus_priv.probe_mutex);
	dev_dbg(&dev->core, "%s:%d: failed\n", __func__, __LINE__);
	return result;
}

Thanks for taking the time to scrutinize.

-Geoff