From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: "Johnson CH Chen (陳昭勳)" <JohnsonCH.Chen@moxa.com>
Cc: "Jiri Slaby" <jirislaby@gmail.com>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-serial@vger.kernel.org" <linux-serial@vger.kernel.org>,
"Victor Yu (游勝義)" <victor.yu@moxa.com>,
"Danny Lin (林政易)" <danny.lin@moxa.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tty: Add MOXA NPort Real TTY Driver
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2020 09:11:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200722071140.GA2769446@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <HK2PR01MB32817A21FEDDC410F2822640FA790@HK2PR01MB3281.apcprd01.prod.exchangelabs.com>
On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 07:04:00AM +0000, Johnson CH Chen (陳昭勳) wrote:
> Hi Greg,
>
> Thanks for your response!
>
> > > > > + unsigned long flag;
> > > > > + unsigned char cmd_buffer[84];
> > > > > + unsigned char rsp_buffer[84];
> > > >
> > > > You seem to have two "static" buffers here, for your device, that
> > > > you semi-randomly write to all over the place, but I can't find
> > > > any locking or coordination between things that prevents multiple
> > > > commands from not just overwritting each other.
> > > >
> > > For cmd_buffer[], we use npreal_wait_and_set_command() to make sure
> > > cmd_buffer[] is safe to be written by checking "cmd_buffer[0] == 0".
> >
> > And what locks are protecting you there?
> >
> > > For rsp_buffer[], we use npreal_wait_command_completed() to make
> > > sure rsp_buffer[] is desired by checking rsp_buffer[0] and rsp_buffer[1].
> > > Command_set and command should be checked. Besides, rsp_buffer[] is
> > > got from user space by "NPREAL_NET_CMD_RESPONSE" in
> > > npreal_net_ioctl().
> >
> > Again, what locking is really handling this?
> >
>
> It's better to protect cmd_buffer[84] and rsp_buffer[84] by locking completely. They are safe because NPort driver should be worked with NPort daemon before, and NPort daemon is designed to be simple.
I'm sorry, but I do not understand this answer at all. Something can be
"simple" and still be totally wrong :)
Without locking, this code is broken.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-22 7:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-14 6:24 [PATCH] tty: Add MOXA NPort Real TTY Driver Johnson CH Chen (陳昭勳)
2020-07-14 7:11 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-07-23 10:54 ` Johnson CH Chen (陳昭勳)
2020-07-14 7:36 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-07-16 7:19 ` Johnson CH Chen (陳昭勳)
2020-07-16 7:23 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-07-22 7:04 ` Johnson CH Chen (陳昭勳)
2020-07-22 7:11 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2020-07-14 9:34 ` Jiri Slaby
2020-08-07 9:18 ` Johnson CH Chen (陳昭勳)
2020-08-07 9:48 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-07-15 8:27 ` kernel test robot
2020-07-24 5:32 ` kernel test robot
2020-07-28 20:40 ` Pavel Machek
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