From patchwork Sun Mar 24 17:49:55 2019 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Martin Sperl X-Patchwork-Id: 10867615 Return-Path: Received: from mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (pdx-wl-mail.web.codeaurora.org [172.30.200.125]) by pdx-korg-patchwork-2.web.codeaurora.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 534D81575 for ; Sun, 24 Mar 2019 17:50:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41B0D28870 for ; Sun, 24 Mar 2019 17:50:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix, from userid 486) id 3612C2913A; Sun, 24 Mar 2019 17:50:19 +0000 (UTC) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on pdx-wl-mail.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-7.9 required=2.0 tests=BAYES_00,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1BC028870 for ; Sun, 24 Mar 2019 17:50:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1728642AbfCXRuS (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Mar 2019 13:50:18 -0400 Received: from 212-186-180-163.static.upcbusiness.at ([212.186.180.163]:53112 "EHLO cgate.sperl.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726603AbfCXRuS (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Mar 2019 13:50:18 -0400 Received: from hc1.intern.sperl.org (account martin@sperl.org [10.10.10.59] verified) by sperl.org (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 6.2.1 _community_) with ESMTPSA id 7759423; Sun, 24 Mar 2019 17:50:10 +0000 From: kernel@martin.sperl.org To: Mark Brown , Eric Anholt , Stefan Wahren , Hubert Denkmair , linux-spi@vger.kernel.org, linux-rpi-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Cc: Martin Sperl Subject: [PATCH V2 2/9] spi: bcm2835aux: remove dangerous uncontrolled read of fifo Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2019 17:49:55 +0000 Message-Id: <20190324175002.28969-3-kernel@martin.sperl.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.11.0 In-Reply-To: <20190324175002.28969-1-kernel@martin.sperl.org> References: <20190324175002.28969-1-kernel@martin.sperl.org> Sender: linux-spi-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-spi@vger.kernel.org X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP From: Martin Sperl This read of the fifo is a potential candidate for a race condition as the spi transfer is not necessarily finished and so can lead to an early read of the fifo that still misses data. So it has been removed. Fixes: 1ea29b39f4c812ece2f936065a0a3d6fe44a263e Suggested-by: Hubert Denkmair Signed-off-by: Martin Sperl --- drivers/spi/spi-bcm2835aux.c | 7 ------- 1 file changed, 7 deletions(-) -- 2.11.0 diff --git a/drivers/spi/spi-bcm2835aux.c b/drivers/spi/spi-bcm2835aux.c index 41366d0a16af..0838dbda57c7 100644 --- a/drivers/spi/spi-bcm2835aux.c +++ b/drivers/spi/spi-bcm2835aux.c @@ -194,13 +194,6 @@ static void bcm2835aux_spi_transfer_helper(struct bcm2835aux_spi *bs) BCM2835_AUX_SPI_STAT_TX_FULL))) { bcm2835aux_wr_fifo(bs); } - - /* and check if we have reached "done" */ - while (bs->rx_len && - (!(bcm2835aux_rd(bs, BCM2835_AUX_SPI_STAT) & - BCM2835_AUX_SPI_STAT_BUSY))) { - bcm2835aux_rd_fifo(bs); - } } static irqreturn_t bcm2835aux_spi_interrupt(int irq, void *dev_id)