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From: Kent Gibson <warthog618@gmail.com>
To: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"open list:GPIO SUBSYSTEM" <linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org>,
	Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/22] gpiolib: cdev: fix minor race in GET_LINEINFO_WATCH
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2020 17:36:47 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200625093647.GA18209@sol> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHp75VeDOGArs2MxJJRNHbNRsJU4K+KYPY=pF+mgtwbakQf4BQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 12:23:49PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 12:13 PM Kent Gibson <warthog618@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 11:44:21AM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 1:58 AM Kent Gibson <warthog618@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 11:57:14PM +0800, Kent Gibson wrote:
> 
> ...
> 
> > > > Perhaps you are referring to the case where the copy_to_user fails?
> > >
> > > Yes.
> > >
> > > > To be honest I considered that to be so unlikely that I ignored it.
> > > > Is there a relevant failure mode that I'm missing?
> > >
> > > The traditional question for such cases is "what can possibly go wrong?"
> > > I wouldn't underestimate the probability of failure.
> > >
> >
> > The worst case is the watch is enabled and the userspace gets an
> > EFAULT so it thinks it failed.  If userspace retries then they get
> > EBUSY, so userspace accounting gets muddled.
> >
> > We can clear the watch bit if the copy_to_user fails - before
> > returning the EFAULT. Would that be satisfactory?
> 
> Perhaps. I didn't check that scenario.
> 

To be clear I'm suggesting this:

        gpio_desc_to_lineinfo(desc, &lineinfo);
 
-       if (copy_to_user(ip, &lineinfo, sizeof(lineinfo)))
+       if (copy_to_user(ip, &lineinfo, sizeof(lineinfo))) {
+               clear_bit(lineinfo.offset, gcdev->watched_lines);
                return -EFAULT;
+       }

That undoes the set, returning the watch state to what it was before the
call.

Cheers,
Kent.

  reply	other threads:[~2020-06-25  9:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-23  4:00 [PATCH 00/22] gpio: cdev: add uAPI V2 Kent Gibson
2020-06-23  4:00 ` [PATCH 01/22] gpiolib: move gpiolib-sysfs function declarations into their own header Kent Gibson
2020-06-24 13:34   ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2020-06-24 13:38     ` Kent Gibson
2020-06-23  4:00 ` [PATCH 02/22] gpiolib: cdev: sort includes Kent Gibson
2020-06-24 13:34   ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2020-06-23  4:00 ` [PATCH 03/22] gpiolib: cdev: minor indentation fixes Kent Gibson
2020-06-24 13:35   ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2020-06-23  4:00 ` [PATCH 04/22] gpiolib: cdev: refactor gpiohandle_flags_to_desc_flags Kent Gibson
2020-06-24 13:51   ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2020-06-23  4:00 ` [PATCH 05/22] gpiolib: cdev: rename 'filep' and 'filp' to 'file' to be consistent with other use Kent Gibson
2020-06-24 13:52   ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2020-06-23  4:00 ` [PATCH 06/22] gpiolib: cdev: rename numdescs to num_descs Kent Gibson
2020-06-24 13:53   ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2020-06-23  4:00 ` [PATCH 07/22] gpiolib: cdev: remove pointless decrement of i Kent Gibson
2020-06-24 13:53   ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2020-06-23  4:00 ` [PATCH 08/22] gpiolib: cdev: complete the irq/thread timestamp handshake Kent Gibson
2020-06-24 14:00   ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2020-06-24 14:08     ` Kent Gibson
2020-06-25  9:44       ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2020-06-25 10:01         ` Kent Gibson
2020-06-30  9:08           ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2020-06-23  4:00 ` [PATCH 09/22] gpiolib: cdev: rename priv to gcdev Kent Gibson
2020-06-24 14:04   ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2020-06-24 14:19     ` Kent Gibson
2020-06-24 14:20       ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2020-06-24 23:16         ` Kent Gibson
2020-06-25 10:26           ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2020-06-23  4:00 ` [PATCH 10/22] gpiolib: cdev: fix minor race in GET_LINEINFO_WATCH Kent Gibson
2020-06-24 14:05   ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2020-06-24 14:46   ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-06-24 15:57     ` Kent Gibson
2020-06-24 22:58       ` Kent Gibson
2020-06-25  8:44         ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-06-25  9:13           ` Kent Gibson
2020-06-25  9:23             ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-06-25  9:36               ` Kent Gibson [this message]
2020-06-23  4:00 ` [PATCH 11/22] gpiolib: cdev: remove recalculation of offset Kent Gibson
2020-06-30  8:56   ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2020-06-23  4:00 ` [PATCH 12/22] gpio: uapi: define GPIO_MAX_NAME_SIZE for array sizes Kent Gibson
2020-06-24 14:13   ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2020-06-23  4:00 ` [PATCH 13/22] gpio: uapi: define uAPI V2 Kent Gibson
2020-06-24 14:33   ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-06-24 15:40     ` Kent Gibson
2020-06-26 14:02       ` Kent Gibson
2020-06-24 14:36   ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2020-06-24 23:58     ` Kent Gibson
2020-06-23  4:00 ` [PATCH 14/22] gpiolib: make cdev a build option Kent Gibson
2020-06-29 14:25   ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2020-06-23  4:01 ` [PATCH 15/22] gpiolib: add build option for CDEV V1 ABI Kent Gibson
2020-06-29 14:26   ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2020-06-23  4:01 ` [PATCH 16/22] gpiolib: cdev: add V2 uAPI implementation to parity with V1 Kent Gibson
2020-06-23 17:44   ` Dan Carpenter
2020-06-23 23:23     ` Kent Gibson
2020-06-23  4:01 ` [PATCH 17/22] gpiolib: cdev: report edge detection in lineinfo Kent Gibson
2020-06-23  4:01 ` [PATCH 18/22] gpiolib: cdev: support setting debounce Kent Gibson
2020-06-23  4:01 ` [PATCH 19/22] gpio: uapi: document uAPI V1 as deprecated Kent Gibson
2020-06-23  4:01 ` [PATCH 20/22] tools: gpio: switch tools to V2 uAPI Kent Gibson
2020-06-23  4:01 ` [PATCH 21/22] tools: gpio: add debounce support to gpio-event-mon Kent Gibson
2020-06-23  4:01 ` [PATCH 22/22] tools: gpio: support monitoring multiple lines Kent Gibson
2020-06-30 10:43   ` Bartosz Golaszewski

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