[PATCH 4.9 49/72] tty/serial: atmel: fix race condition (TX+DMA)

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Thu Apr 06 2017 - 04:42:52 EST


4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Richard Genoud <richard.genoud@xxxxxxxxx>

commit 31ca2c63fdc0aee725cbd4f207c1256f5deaabde upstream.

If uart_flush_buffer() is called between atmel_tx_dma() and
atmel_complete_tx_dma(), the circular buffer has been cleared, but not
atmel_port->tx_len.
That leads to a circular buffer overflow (dumping (UART_XMIT_SIZE -
atmel_port->tx_len) bytes).

Tested-by: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Richard Genoud <richard.genoud@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
drivers/tty/serial/atmel_serial.c | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

--- a/drivers/tty/serial/atmel_serial.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/atmel_serial.c
@@ -1938,6 +1938,11 @@ static void atmel_flush_buffer(struct ua
atmel_uart_writel(port, ATMEL_PDC_TCR, 0);
atmel_port->pdc_tx.ofs = 0;
}
+ /*
+ * in uart_flush_buffer(), the xmit circular buffer has just
+ * been cleared, so we have to reset tx_len accordingly.
+ */
+ atmel_port->tx_len = 0;
}

/*