Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751800AbaABMI3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Jan 2014 07:08:29 -0500 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.187]:61161 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751739AbaABMIM (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Jan 2014 07:08:12 -0500 From: Arnd Bergmann To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Arnd Bergmann , Mauro Carvalho Chehab , linux-media@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH, RFC 08/30] [media] arv: fix sleep_on race Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2014 13:07:32 +0100 Message-Id: <1388664474-1710039-9-git-send-email-arnd@arndb.de> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.8.3.2 In-Reply-To: <1388664474-1710039-1-git-send-email-arnd@arndb.de> References: <1388664474-1710039-1-git-send-email-arnd@arndb.de> X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:+TQ5heWpNyvUP2384k2a0HDQ+jvYxAZ5Z0wJOuyQObf 92DwiNrMujzfWE6IpJSUIZ/4PCGKhJTdsZTdgdJOTne/0gF6N/ BH02re2LsSeXum0t3v95dVOhf5dViEHzg2M+z+nSc18m42Kme/ Fb120KUIdGb4qQBPx4i5Joedai3S1TvlGGuekVRh5v7Aht47St IzX//hvElXJI4JRMqJwo6SNpaEXc6bpn52GCpkrLNGm8ZzbuVB iIncImei/qadEQKvKDTbTQjvBNHA0Y0oroA9W1ZMxe4BWTEk7s Rrsk+oZrr/Vd1dvkvc8E2MBNEzDtCuP4603scrgk4qjcR1bG5e oXZdJOQbOoy730PwNfS149DrYcKjm44QtCC4XPIRz Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1635 Lines: 41 interruptible_sleep_on is racy and going away. In the arv driver that race has probably never caused problems since it would require a whole video frame to be captured before the read function has a chance to go to sleep, but using wait_event_interruptible lets us kill off the old interface. In order to do this, we have to slightly adapt the meaning of the ar->start_capture field to distinguish between not having started a frame and having completed it. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Cc: linux-media@vger.kernel.org --- drivers/media/platform/arv.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/media/platform/arv.c b/drivers/media/platform/arv.c index e346d32d..32f6d70 100644 --- a/drivers/media/platform/arv.c +++ b/drivers/media/platform/arv.c @@ -307,11 +307,11 @@ static ssize_t ar_read(struct file *file, char *buf, size_t count, loff_t *ppos) /* * Okay, kick AR LSI to invoke an interrupt */ - ar->start_capture = 0; + ar->start_capture = -1; ar_outl(arvcr1 | ARVCR1_HIEN, ARVCR1); local_irq_restore(flags); /* .... AR interrupts .... */ - interruptible_sleep_on(&ar->wait); + wait_event_interruptible(ar->wait, ar->start_capture == 0); if (signal_pending(current)) { printk(KERN_ERR "arv: interrupted while get frame data.\n"); ret = -EINTR; -- 1.8.3.2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/