Re: A potential data race in drivers/iio/adc/berlin2-adc.ko

[Lars-Peter Clausen]

On 3/18/21 9:27 AM, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote:
> On 3/18/21 9:07 AM, Pavel Andrianov wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > berlin2_adc_probe [1] registers two interrupt handlers: 
> > berlin2_adc_irq [2]
> > and berlin2_adc_tsen_irq [3]. The interrupt handlers operate with the 
> > same data, for example, modify
> > priv->data with different masks:
> >
> > priv->data &= BERLIN2_SM_ADC_MASK;
> > and
> > priv->data &= BERLIN2_SM_TSEN_MASK;
> >
> > If the two interrupt handlers are executed simultaneously, a 
> > potential data race takes place. So, the question is if the situation 
> > is possible. For example, in the case of the handlers are executed on 
> > different CPU cores.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Pavel
> >
> > [1] 
> > https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/drivers/iio/adc/berlin2-adc.c#L283 
> >
> > [2] 
> > https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/drivers/iio/adc/berlin2-adc.c#L239 
> >
> > [3] 
> > https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/drivers/iio/adc/berlin2-adc.c#L259
> Looking at the code there are two functions. berlin2_adc_tsen_read() 
> and berlin2_adc_read(). These two function are take the same mutex and 
> can not run concurrently. At the beginning of the protected section 
> the corresponding interrupt for that function is enabled and at the 
> end disabled. So at least if the hardware works correctly those two 
> interrupts will never fire at the same time.
>
> Now, if the hardware misbehaves the two interrupts could still fire at 
> the same time.
>
> - Lars
Actually thinking a bit more about this the interrupt could still fire 
after it has been disabled since there is no synchronization between the 
disable and the interrupt handler. And the handler might be queued on 
one CPU, while the disable is running on another CPU.