From: Kosuke Tatsukawa <ta...@ab.jp.nec.com> brcmf_msgbuf_ioctl_resp_wake() seems to be missing a memory barrier which might cause the waker to not notice the waiter and miss sending a wake_up as in the following figure.
brcmf_msgbuf_ioctl_resp_wake brcmf_msgbuf_ioctl_resp_wait ------------------------------------------------------------------------ if (waitqueue_active(&msgbuf->ioctl_resp_wait)) /* The CPU might reorder the test for the waitqueue up here, before prior writes complete */ /* wait_event_timeout */ /* __wait_event_timeout */ /* ___wait_event */ prepare_to_wait_event(&wq, &__wait, state); if (msgbuf->ctl_completed) ... msgbuf->ctl_completed = true; schedule_timeout(__ret)) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ There are three other place in drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/ which have similar code. The attached patch removes the call to waitqueue_active() leaving just wake_up() behind. This fixes the problem because the call to spin_lock_irqsave() in wake_up() will be an ACQUIRE operation. I found this issue when I was looking through the linux source code for places calling waitqueue_active() before wake_up*(), but without preceding memory barriers, after sending a patch to fix a similar issue in drivers/tty/n_tty.c (Details about the original issue can be found here: https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/9/28/849). Reviewed-by: Hante Meuleman <meule...@broadcom.com> Reviewed-by: Franky (Zhenhui) Lin <fran...@broadcom.com> Reviewed-by: Pieter-Paul Giesberts <piete...@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: Kosuke Tatsukawa <ta...@ab.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <ar...@broadcom.com> --- drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/msgbuf.c | 3 +-- drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/sdio.c | 6 ++---- drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/usb.c | 3 +-- 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/msgbuf.c b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/msgbuf.c index 44e618f..5df9138 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/msgbuf.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/msgbuf.c @@ -473,8 +473,7 @@ static int brcmf_msgbuf_ioctl_resp_wait(struct brcmf_msgbuf *msgbuf) static void brcmf_msgbuf_ioctl_resp_wake(struct brcmf_msgbuf *msgbuf) { msgbuf->ctl_completed = true; - if (waitqueue_active(&msgbuf->ioctl_resp_wait)) - wake_up(&msgbuf->ioctl_resp_wait); + wake_up(&msgbuf->ioctl_resp_wait); } diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/sdio.c b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/sdio.c index 9fa3a3a..ceb2a75 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/sdio.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/sdio.c @@ -1678,8 +1678,7 @@ static int brcmf_sdio_dcmd_resp_wait(struct brcmf_sdio *bus, uint *condition, static int brcmf_sdio_dcmd_resp_wake(struct brcmf_sdio *bus) { - if (waitqueue_active(&bus->dcmd_resp_wait)) - wake_up_interruptible(&bus->dcmd_resp_wait); + wake_up_interruptible(&bus->dcmd_resp_wait); return 0; } @@ -2003,8 +2002,7 @@ static uint brcmf_sdio_readframes(struct brcmf_sdio *bus, uint maxframes) static void brcmf_sdio_wait_event_wakeup(struct brcmf_sdio *bus) { - if (waitqueue_active(&bus->ctrl_wait)) - wake_up_interruptible(&bus->ctrl_wait); + wake_up_interruptible(&bus->ctrl_wait); return; } diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/usb.c b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/usb.c index ccde559..23eaf0f 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/usb.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/usb.c @@ -196,8 +196,7 @@ static int brcmf_usb_ioctl_resp_wait(struct brcmf_usbdev_info *devinfo) static void brcmf_usb_ioctl_resp_wake(struct brcmf_usbdev_info *devinfo) { - if (waitqueue_active(&devinfo->ioctl_resp_wait)) - wake_up(&devinfo->ioctl_resp_wait); + wake_up(&devinfo->ioctl_resp_wait); } static void -- 1.9.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html