[PATCH 10/10] serial: sh-sci: fix possible race cases on SCSCR register accesses

Shinya Kuribayashi shinya.kuribayashi.px at renesas.com
Wed Nov 7 02:01:05 EST 2012


In the previous commit, console write function (serial_console_write)
is changed to disable SCI interrupts while printing console strings.
This introduces possible race cases in the serial startup / shutdown
functions on SMP systems.

This patch fixes the sh-sci in the same way as commit 9ec1882df2
(tty: serial: imx: console write routing is unsafe on SMP, from
Xinyu Chen <xinyu.chen at freescale.com>, 2012-08-27) did.

There could be several consumers of the console,
* the kernel printk
* the init process using /dev/kmsg to call printk to show log
* shell, which opens /dev/console and writes with sys_write()

The shell goes into the normal UART open() and write() system calls,
while the other two go into the console operations.  The open() call
invokes serial startup function (sci_startup), which will write to
the SCSCR register (to enable or disable SCI interrupts) without any
locking.  This will conflict with the console serial function.

Add spinlock protections in sci_startup() and sci_shutdown() properly.

Signed-off-by: Shinya Kuribayashi <shinya.kuribayashi.px at renesas.com>
---
 drivers/tty/serial/sh-sci.c | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/sh-sci.c b/drivers/tty/serial/sh-sci.c
index 0b8d029..8e3c7f7 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/sh-sci.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/sh-sci.c
@@ -1742,6 +1742,7 @@ static inline void sci_free_dma(struct uart_port *port)
 static int sci_startup(struct uart_port *port)
 {
 	struct sci_port *s = to_sci_port(port);
+	unsigned long flags;
 	int ret;
 
 	dev_dbg(port->dev, "%s(%d)\n", __func__, port->line);
@@ -1752,8 +1753,10 @@ static int sci_startup(struct uart_port *port)
 
 	sci_request_dma(port);
 
+	spin_lock_irqsave(&port->lock, flags);
 	sci_start_tx(port);
 	sci_start_rx(port);
+	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&port->lock, flags);
 
 	return 0;
 }
@@ -1761,11 +1764,14 @@ static int sci_startup(struct uart_port *port)
 static void sci_shutdown(struct uart_port *port)
 {
 	struct sci_port *s = to_sci_port(port);
+	unsigned long flags;
 
 	dev_dbg(port->dev, "%s(%d)\n", __func__, port->line);
 
+	spin_lock_irqsave(&port->lock, flags);
 	sci_stop_rx(port);
 	sci_stop_tx(port);
+	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&port->lock, flags);
 
 	sci_free_dma(port);
 	sci_free_irq(s);
-- 
1.7.12.4




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