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authorJohan Hovold <jhovold@gmail.com>2013-11-09 12:38:09 +0100
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2014-01-09 12:24:19 -0800
commitd07732a871f6f0906c012e89e2a10edb3c9be3b4 (patch)
treef8d83d2ad810f6c96bc561acbe44a8c0bc70fd27 /drivers/usb
parent095f493c4d532b0ced3aee22e2d5b2cea02aa773 (diff)
USB: serial: fix race in generic write
commit 6f6485463aada1ec6a0f3db6a03eb8e393d6bb55 upstream. Fix race in generic write implementation, which could lead to temporarily degraded throughput. The current generic write implementation introduced by commit 27c7acf22047 ("USB: serial: reimplement generic fifo-based writes") has always had this bug, although it's fairly hard to trigger and the consequences are not likely to be noticed. Specifically, a write() on one CPU while the completion handler is running on another could result in only one of the two write urbs being utilised to empty the remainder of the write fifo (unless there is a second write() that doesn't race during that time). Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <jhovold@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/usb')
-rw-r--r--drivers/usb/serial/generic.c9
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/usb/serial/generic.c b/drivers/usb/serial/generic.c
index ba45170c78e..8335b484f14 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/serial/generic.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/serial/generic.c
@@ -176,14 +176,7 @@ retry:
return result;
}
- /* Try sending off another urb, unless in irq context (in which case
- * there will be no free urb). */
- if (!in_irq())
- goto retry;
-
- clear_bit_unlock(USB_SERIAL_WRITE_BUSY, &port->flags);
-
- return 0;
+ goto retry; /* try sending off another urb */
}
/**