From: Raul Rangel <rrangel@chromium.org>
To: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-input <linux-input@vger.kernel.org>,
Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>,
"S, Shirish" <Shirish.S@amd.com>,
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Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org>,
Jacek Anaszewski <jacek.anaszewski@gmail.com>,
"Lee, Chun-Yi" <jlee@suse.com>, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>,
Rajat Jain <rajatja@google.com>,
Stephen Boyd <swboyd@chromium.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux LED Subsystem <linux-leds@vger.kernel.org>,
Platform Driver <platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Input: i8042 - Prevent intermixing i8042 commands
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2020 14:20:05 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHQZ30CbzL290WQ6J-sZh_pLfZFqHE1xgpaLPX+BfEJWg+7p3A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHp75VfM-61vN_Ptz1YWz3JmRJ7eqssVykXuCircuiz9HL3TVA@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 2:12 PM Andy Shevchenko
<andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 10:52 PM Raul E Rangel <rrangel@chromium.org> wrote:
> >
> > The i8042_mutex must be held by writers of the AUX and KBD ports, as
> > well as users of i8042_command. There were a lot of users of
> > i8042_command that were not calling i8042_lock_chip/i8042_unlock_chip.
> > This resulted in i8042_commands being issues in between PS/2
> > transactions.
> >
> > This change moves the mutex lock into i8042_command and removes the
> > burden of locking the mutex from the callers.
>
> Which is wrong according to your very patch. See below.
>
> > It is expected that the i8042_mutex is locked before calling
> > i8042_aux_write or i8042_kbd_write. This is currently done by the PS/2
> > layer via ps2_begin_command and ps2_end_command. Other modules
> > (serio_raw) do not currently lock the mutex, so there is still a
> > possibility for intermixed commands.
>
> ...
>
> > + mutex_lock(&i8042_mutex);
> > +
> > spin_lock_irqsave(&i8042_lock, flags);
> > retval = __i8042_command(param, command);
> > spin_unlock_irqrestore(&i8042_lock, flags);
> >
> > + mutex_unlock(&i8042_mutex);
>
> Question 1. Why do you need mutex at all in the above situation? Spin
> lock isn't enough?
No. PS/2 transactions/commands consist of multiple calls to ps2_do_sendbyte.
So the spin lock only helps with sending an individual byte. The mutex
is for the
whole transaction. We don't want i8042_commands being sent in between a PS/2
transaction.
>
> ...
>
> > - i8042_lock_chip();
> > -
> > if (value == LED_OFF)
> > i8042_command(NULL, CLEVO_MAIL_LED_OFF);
> > else if (value <= LED_HALF)
> > i8042_command(NULL, CLEVO_MAIL_LED_BLINK_0_5HZ);
> > else
> > i8042_command(NULL, CLEVO_MAIL_LED_BLINK_1HZ);
> > -
> > - i8042_unlock_chip();
> > -
>
> Now, these three commands are not considered as a transaction (no
> atomicity). That's why your patch is wrong.
These are all mutually exclusive. So there is no change in behavior.
>
> > }
>
> ...
>
> > int rc;
> >
> > - i8042_lock_chip();
> > rc = i8042_command(¶m, A1655_WIFI_COMMAND);
> > - i8042_unlock_chip();
> > return rc;
>
> rc become redundant.
Good catch. I'll send a v2 with it removed.
>
> --
> With Best Regards,
> Andy Shevchenko
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-27 20:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-08-27 19:52 [PATCH 1/2] Input: i8042 - Prevent intermixing i8042 commands Raul E Rangel
2020-08-27 20:12 ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-08-27 20:18 ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-08-27 20:20 ` Raul Rangel [this message]
2020-08-29 7:47 ` Pavel Machek
2020-08-31 13:39 ` Raul Rangel
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