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spi: pl022: Fix race in giveback() leading to driver lock-up
authorAlexander Sverdlin <alexander.sverdlin@nokia.com>
Fri, 27 Feb 2015 15:30:21 +0000 (16:30 +0100)
committerMark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Fri, 6 Mar 2015 19:45:55 +0000 (19:45 +0000)
commit5a2eec8b4846aafbc21f96aef5f23eff42d547e5
tree2ae9291447b4a70c781c0ac7f8c6e3fcb5c1751a
parent9cbe621030a9cce16d27329dac74fd4b1c1d9412
spi: pl022: Fix race in giveback() leading to driver lock-up

Commit a55b64e5d ("spi/pl022: disable port when unused") introduced a race,
which leads to possible driver lock up (easily reproducible on SMP).

The problem happens in giveback() function where the completion of the transfer
is signalled to SPI subsystem and then the HW SPI controller is disabled. Another
transfer might be setup in between, which brings driver in locked-up state.

Exact event sequence on SMP:

core0                                   core1

                                        => pump_transfers()
                                        /* message->state == STATE_DONE */
                                          => giveback()
                                            => spi_finalize_current_message()

=> pl022_unprepare_transfer_hardware()
=> pl022_transfer_one_message
  => flush()
  => do_interrupt_dma_transfer()
    => set_up_next_transfer()
    /* Enable SSP, turn on interrupts */
    writew((readw(SSP_CR1(pl022->virtbase)) |
           SSP_CR1_MASK_SSE), SSP_CR1(pl022->virtbase));

...

=> pl022_interrupt_handler()
  => readwriter()

                                        /* disable the SPI/SSP operation */
                                        => writew((readw(SSP_CR1(pl022->virtbase)) &
                                                  (~SSP_CR1_MASK_SSE)), SSP_CR1(pl022->virtbase));

Lockup! SPI controller is disabled and the data will never be received. Whole
SPI subsystem is waiting for transfer ACK and blocked.

So, only signal transfer completion after disabling the controller.

Fixes: a55b64e5d (spi/pl022: disable port when unused)
Signed-off-by: Alexander Sverdlin <alexander.sverdlin@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
drivers/spi/spi-pl022.c