Re: [PATCH] i2c: i2c-qcom-geni: Fix DMA transfer race

From: Sai Prakash Ranjan
Date: Tue Jul 21 2020 - 01:37:45 EST


On 2020-07-21 05:54, Douglas Anderson wrote:
When I have KASAN enabled on my kernel and I start stressing the
touchscreen my system tends to hang. The touchscreen is one of the
only things that does a lot of big i2c transfers and ends up hitting
the DMA paths in the geni i2c driver. It appears that KASAN adds
enough delay in my system to tickle a race condition in the DMA setup
code.

When the system hangs, I found that it was running the geni_i2c_irq()
over and over again. It had these:

m_stat = 0x04000080
rx_st = 0x30000011
dm_tx_st = 0x00000000
dm_rx_st = 0x00000000
dma = 0x00000001

Notably we're in DMA mode but are getting M_RX_IRQ_EN and
M_RX_FIFO_WATERMARK_EN over and over again.

Putting some traces in geni_i2c_rx_one_msg() showed that when we
failed we were getting to the start of geni_i2c_rx_one_msg() but were
never executing geni_se_rx_dma_prep().

I believe that the problem here is that we are writing the transfer
length and setting up the geni command before we run
geni_se_rx_dma_prep(). If a transfer makes it far enough before we do
that then we get into the state I have observed. Let's change the
order, which seems to work fine.

Fixes: 37692de5d523 ("i2c: i2c-qcom-geni: Add bus driver for the
Qualcomm GENI I2C controller")
Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-qcom-geni.c | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-qcom-geni.c
b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-qcom-geni.c
index 18d1e4fd4cf3..21e27f10510a 100644
--- a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-qcom-geni.c
+++ b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-qcom-geni.c
@@ -366,15 +366,15 @@ static int geni_i2c_rx_one_msg(struct
geni_i2c_dev *gi2c, struct i2c_msg *msg,
else
geni_se_select_mode(se, GENI_SE_FIFO);

- writel_relaxed(len, se->base + SE_I2C_RX_TRANS_LEN);
- geni_se_setup_m_cmd(se, I2C_READ, m_param);
-
if (dma_buf && geni_se_rx_dma_prep(se, dma_buf, len, &rx_dma)) {
geni_se_select_mode(se, GENI_SE_FIFO);
i2c_put_dma_safe_msg_buf(dma_buf, msg, false);
dma_buf = NULL;
}

+ writel_relaxed(len, se->base + SE_I2C_RX_TRANS_LEN);
+ geni_se_setup_m_cmd(se, I2C_READ, m_param);
+
time_left = wait_for_completion_timeout(&gi2c->done, XFER_TIMEOUT);
if (!time_left)
geni_i2c_abort_xfer(gi2c);

Tested-by: Sai Prakash Ranjan <saiprakash.ranjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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