Re: [PATCH v6 3/4] media: uvcvideo: Avoid race condition during unregister

From: Laurent Pinchart
Date: Wed Sep 25 2024 - 15:21:09 EST


Hi Ricardo,

Thank you for the patch.

I'd write "during status unregister" in the subject line.

On Fri, Jun 14, 2024 at 12:41:29PM +0000, Ricardo Ribalda wrote:
> The control events are handled asynchronously by the driver. Once the
> control event are handled, the urb is re-submitted.
>
> If we simply kill the urb, there is a chance that a control event is
> waiting to be processed, which will re-submit the urb after the device is
> disconnected.
>
> uvc_status_suspend() flushes the async controls and stops the urb in a
> correct manner.

"Fix this by calling uvc_status_suspend(), which flushes the async
controls and kills the URB in a race-free manner."

Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Ricardo Ribalda <ribalda@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_status.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_status.c b/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_status.c
> index 375a95dd3011..8fd8250110e2 100644
> --- a/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_status.c
> +++ b/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_status.c
> @@ -294,7 +294,7 @@ int uvc_status_init(struct uvc_device *dev)
>
> void uvc_status_unregister(struct uvc_device *dev)
> {
> - usb_kill_urb(dev->int_urb);
> + uvc_status_suspend(dev);
> uvc_input_unregister(dev);
> }
>

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Regards,

Laurent Pinchart