Re: [PATCH v8 09/24] ASoC: qdsp6: q6afe: Add q6afe driver

From: Srinivas Kandagatla
Date: Thu May 17 2018 - 12:14:13 EST


Thanks for the review.

On 17/05/18 07:55, Mark Brown wrote:
On Wed, May 09, 2018 at 01:56:20PM +0100, Srinivas Kandagatla wrote:

+static struct q6afe_port *afe_find_port(struct q6afe *afe, int token)
+{
+ struct q6afe_port *p = NULL;
+ struct q6afe_port *ret = NULL;
+ unsigned long flags;
+
+ spin_lock_irqsave(&afe->port_list_lock, flags);
+ list_for_each_entry(p, &afe->port_list, node)
+ if (p->token == token) {
+ ret = p;
+ break;
+ }
+
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&afe->port_list_lock, flags);
+ return ret;

This lock only protects the list, it does nothing to ensure that the
port we look up is still valid by the time we return to the caller.
That means we won't crash during list traversal but does nothing to
ensure we won't crash immediately afterwards if the port is deallocated
just after we look it up. What stops that happening?

Each port is allocated and de-allocated in dai probe and remove calls respectively.

Lets say... So for this case to happen the dai has to be removed (unload module) at the same time when the interrupt callback happens due to delayed response from previous commands.

This case would be almost impossible because all the calls to afe service are synchronous with timeouts, if any of the previous calls times out the respective caller would get an error, this should prevent him from unloading the module in the first place.


thanks,
srini