[PATCH] serial: 8250: Fix race condition in RTS-after-send handling

["Uwe Kleine-König" <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>]

Set em485->active_timer = NULL isn't always enough to take out the stop
timer. While there is a check that it acts in the right state (i.e.
waiting for RTS-after-send to pass after sending some chars) but the
following might happen:

 - CPU1: some chars send, shifter becomes empty, stop tx timer armed
 - CPU0: more chars send before RTS-after-send expired
 - CPU0: shifter empty irq, port lock taken
 - CPU1: tx timer triggers, waits for port lock
 - CPU0: em485->active_timer = &em485->stop_tx_timer, hrtimer_start(),
   releases lock()
 - CPU1: get lock, see em485->active_timer == &em485->stop_tx_timer,
   tear down RTS too early

This fix bases on research done by Steffen Trumtrar.

Fixes: b86f86e8e7c5 ("serial: 8250: fix potential deadlock in rs485-mode")
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
---
 drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c
index 3b12bfc1ed67..e77620a17d5d 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c
@@ -1615,6 +1615,18 @@ static inline void start_tx_rs485(struct uart_port *port)
 	struct uart_8250_port *up = up_to_u8250p(port);
 	struct uart_8250_em485 *em485 = up->em485;
 
+	/*
+	 * While serial8250_em485_handle_stop_tx() is a noop if
+	 * em485->active_timer != &em485->stop_tx_timer, it might happen that
+	 * the timer is still armed and triggers only after the current bunch of
+	 * chars is send and em485->active_timer == &em485->stop_tx_timer again.
+	 * So cancel the timer. There is still a theoretical race condition if
+	 * the timer is already running and only comes around to check for
+	 * em485->active_timer when &em485->stop_tx_timer is armed again.
+	 */
+	if (em485->active_timer == &em485->stop_tx_timer)
+		hrtimer_try_to_cancel(&em485->stop_tx_timer);
+
 	em485->active_timer = NULL;
 
 	if (em485->tx_stopped) {

base-commit: e3c85076d7a6f986445b9008be7e7f83d1b0780a
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2.34.1