Re: [PATCH] usb: use mutex_lock in iowarrior_read()

From: Oliver Neukum
Date: Tue Sep 17 2024 - 04:33:40 EST


On 17.09.24 08:23, Jeongjun Park wrote:
Oliver Neukum <oneukum@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Okay. But O_NONBLOCK flag check already exists, and I don't know
if we need to branch separately to mutex_trylock just because O_NONBLOCK
flag exists. I think mutex_lock_interruptible is enough.

It will still block.

And the point of locking is too late. I think it would be more appropriate to
read file->private_data and then lock it right away.

You are right. dev->present should be checked under the lock only.

I think this patch is a more appropriate patch:

---
drivers/usb/misc/iowarrior.c | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
1 file changed, 31 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/usb/misc/iowarrior.c b/drivers/usb/misc/iowarrior.c
index 6d28467ce352..6fb4ecebbc15 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/misc/iowarrior.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/misc/iowarrior.c
@@ -277,28 +277,40 @@ static ssize_t iowarrior_read(struct file *file,
char __user *buffer,
struct iowarrior *dev;
int read_idx;
int offset;
+ int retval = 0;

dev = file->private_data;

+ if (mutex_lock_interruptible(&dev->mutex)) {

This blocks. To quote the man page:

O_NONBLOCK or O_NDELAY
When possible, the file is opened in nonblocking mode.
Neither the open() nor any subsequent I/O operations on the file descriptor which is
returned will cause the calling process to wait.


[..]
+unlock_exit:
+ mutex_unlock(&dev->mutex);
+exit:
+ return retval;

The rest looks good to me.

Regards
Oliver