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From: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>
To: eli.billauer@gmail.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org,
	linux-usb@vger.kernel.org
Cc: hdegoede@redhat.com, stern@rowland.harvard.edu
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] usb: core: Solve race condition in anchor cleanup functions
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2020 13:46:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1596109601.2508.4.camel@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200730082338.23709-1-eli.billauer@gmail.com>

Am Donnerstag, den 30.07.2020, 11:23 +0300 schrieb
eli.billauer@gmail.com:
> From: Eli Billauer <eli.billauer@gmail.com>
> 

Hi,

> The additional do-while loop relies on the new usb_anchor_safe_empty()
> function, which is like usb_anchor_check_wakeup(), only the former takes
> the anchor's lock before checking. Both functions return true iff the
> anchor list is empty, and there is no __usb_hcd_giveback_urb() in the
> system that is in the middle of the unanchor-before-complete phase.
> The @suspend_wakeups member of struct usb_anchor is used for this purpose,
> which was introduced to solve another problem which the same race
> condition causes, in commit 6ec4147e7bdb ("usb-anchor: Delay
> usb_wait_anchor_empty_timeout wake up till completion is done").
> 

I think you can partially heed Alan's suggestion. The test takes
a lock you have just dropped. You need to drop it before you
call usb_kill_urb(), but the drop before the test is redundant.

	Regards
		Oliver


      parent reply	other threads:[~2020-07-30 11:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-30  8:23 [PATCH v3] usb: core: Solve race condition in anchor cleanup functions eli.billauer
2020-07-30  8:27 ` Eli Billauer
2020-07-30 11:46 ` Oliver Neukum [this message]

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