Hi Hans,
Thanks for the quick review.
On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 11:27:35AM +0200, Hans Verkuil wrote:
> On 09/12/18 10:52, Sakari Ailus wrote:
> > The event subscriptions are added to the subscribed event list while
> > holding a spinlock, but that lock is subsequently released while still
> > accessing the subscription object. This makes it possible to unsubscribe
> > the event --- and freeing the subscription object's memory --- while
> > the subscription object is simultaneously accessed.
>
> Hmm, the (un)subscribe ioctls are serialized through the ioctl lock,
> so this could only be a scenario with drivers that do not use this
> lock. Off-hand the only driver I know that does this is uvc. Unfortunately,
> that's a rather popular one.
On video nodes, perhaps. But how about sub-device nodes? Generally drivers
tend to do locking themselves, whether or not that is the best for most
drivers.
>
> >
> > Prevent this by adding a mutex to serialise the event subscription and
> > unsubscription. This also gives a guarantee to the callback ops that the
> > add op has returned before the del op is called.
> >
> > This change also results in making the elems field less special:
> > subscriptions are only added to the event list once they are fully
> > initialised.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ai...@linux.intel.com>
> > ---
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > I noticed this while working to add support for media events. This seems
> > like material for the stable trees.
>
> I'd say 'no need for this' if it wasn't for uvc.
>
> >
> > drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-event.c | 35
> > ++++++++++++++++++-----------------
> > drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-fh.c | 2 ++
> > include/media/v4l2-fh.h | 4 ++++
> > 3 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-event.c
> > b/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-event.c
> > index 127fe6eb91d9..74161f79e4d3 100644
> > --- a/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-event.c
> > +++ b/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-event.c
> > @@ -115,14 +115,6 @@ static void __v4l2_event_queue_fh(struct v4l2_fh *fh,
> > const struct v4l2_event *e
> > if (sev == NULL)
> > return;
> >
> > - /*
> > - * If the event has been added to the fh->subscribed list, but its
> > - * add op has not completed yet elems will be 0, treat this as
> > - * not being subscribed.
> > - */
> > - if (!sev->elems)
> > - return;
> > -
> > /* Increase event sequence number on fh. */
> > fh->sequence++;
> >
> > @@ -208,6 +200,7 @@ int v4l2_event_subscribe(struct v4l2_fh *fh,
> > struct v4l2_subscribed_event *sev, *found_ev;
> > unsigned long flags;
> > unsigned i;
> > + int ret = 0;
> >
> > if (sub->type == V4L2_EVENT_ALL)
> > return -EINVAL;
> > @@ -225,31 +218,35 @@ int v4l2_event_subscribe(struct v4l2_fh *fh,
> > sev->flags = sub->flags;
> > sev->fh = fh;
> > sev->ops = ops;
> > + sev->elems = elems;
> > +
> > + mutex_lock(&fh->mutex);
> >
> > spin_lock_irqsave(&fh->vdev->fh_lock, flags);
> > found_ev = v4l2_event_subscribed(fh, sub->type, sub->id);
> > - if (!found_ev)
> > - list_add(&sev->list, &fh->subscribed);
> > spin_unlock_irqrestore(&fh->vdev->fh_lock, flags);
> >
> > if (found_ev) {
> > + /* Already listening */
> > kvfree(sev);
> > - return 0; /* Already listening */
> > + goto out_unlock;
> > }
> >
> > if (sev->ops && sev->ops->add) {
> > - int ret = sev->ops->add(sev, elems);
> > + ret = sev->ops->add(sev, elems);
> > if (ret) {
> > - sev->ops = NULL;
> > - v4l2_event_unsubscribe(fh, sub);
> > - return ret;
> > + kvfree(sev);
> > + goto out_unlock;
> > }
> > }
> >
> > /* Mark as ready for use */
> > - sev->elems = elems;
> > + list_add(&sev->list, &fh->subscribed);
> >
> > - return 0;
> > +out_unlock:
> > + mutex_unlock(&fh->mutex);
> > +
> > + return ret;
> > }
> > EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(v4l2_event_subscribe);
> >
> > @@ -288,6 +285,8 @@ int v4l2_event_unsubscribe(struct v4l2_fh *fh,
> > return 0;
> > }
> >
> > + mutex_lock(&fh->mutex);
> > +
> > spin_lock_irqsave(&fh->vdev->fh_lock, flags);
> >
> > sev = v4l2_event_subscribed(fh, sub->type, sub->id);
> > @@ -305,6 +304,8 @@ int v4l2_event_unsubscribe(struct v4l2_fh *fh,
> > if (sev && sev->ops && sev->ops->del)
> > sev->ops->del(sev);
> >
> > + mutex_unlock(&fh->mutex);
> > +
> > kvfree(sev);
> >
> > return 0;
> > diff --git a/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-fh.c
> > b/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-fh.c
> > index 3895999bf880..b017dafde907 100644
> > --- a/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-fh.c
> > +++ b/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-fh.c
> > @@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ void v4l2_fh_init(struct v4l2_fh *fh, struct video_device
> > *vdev)
> > INIT_LIST_HEAD(&fh->available);
> > INIT_LIST_HEAD(&fh->subscribed);
> > fh->sequence = -1;
> > + mutex_init(&fh->mutex);
> > }
> > EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(v4l2_fh_init);
> >
> > @@ -90,6 +91,7 @@ void v4l2_fh_exit(struct v4l2_fh *fh)
> > return;
> > v4l_disable_media_source(fh->vdev);
> > v4l2_event_unsubscribe_all(fh);
> > + mutex_destroy(&fh->mutex);
> > fh->vdev = NULL;
> > }
> > EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(v4l2_fh_exit);
> > diff --git a/include/media/v4l2-fh.h b/include/media/v4l2-fh.h
> > index ea73fef8bdc0..1be45a5f6383 100644
> > --- a/include/media/v4l2-fh.h
> > +++ b/include/media/v4l2-fh.h
> > @@ -42,6 +42,9 @@ struct v4l2_ctrl_handler;
> > * @available: list of events waiting to be dequeued
> > * @navailable: number of available events at @available list
> > * @sequence: event sequence number
> > + * @mutex: hold event subscriptions during subscribing;
> > + * guarantee that the add and del event callbacks are orderly called
> > + *
> > * @m2m_ctx: pointer to &struct v4l2_m2m_ctx
> > */
> > struct v4l2_fh {
> > @@ -56,6 +59,7 @@ struct v4l2_fh {
> > struct list_head available;
> > unsigned int navailable;
> > u32 sequence;
> > + struct mutex mutex;
>
> I don't like the name 'mutex'. Perhaps something more descriptive like:
> 'subscribe_lock'?
>
> >
> > #if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_V4L2_MEM2MEM_DEV)
> > struct v4l2_m2m_ctx *m2m_ctx;
> >
>
> Overall I think this patch makes sense. The code is cleaner and easier to
> follow.
> Just give 'mutex' a better name :-)
How about "subscribe_mutex"? It's a mutex... "subscribe_lock" would use a
similar convention elsewhere in V4L2 where mutexes are commonly called
locks, so I'm certainly fine with that as well.
--
Sakari Ailus
sakari.ai...@linux.intel.com
