ARM: 7136/1: pl330: Fix a race condition
authorJavi Merino <javi.merino@arm.com>
Tue, 18 Oct 2011 10:50:07 +0000 (11:50 +0100)
committerRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Sat, 22 Oct 2011 21:11:23 +0000 (22:11 +0100)
commitee3f615819404a9438b2dd01b7a39f276d2737f2
tree8b725dfe99118faef327d163cf02a5fff28d8bf4
parentb55fa18817743c3c4aef14f0c6fc0e21d7bc1e62
ARM: 7136/1: pl330: Fix a race condition

If two requests have been submitted and one of them is running, if you
call pl330_chan_ctrl(ch_id, PL330_OP_START), there's a window of time
between the spin_lock_irqsave() and the _state() check in which the
running transaction may finish.  In that case, we don't receive the
interrupt (because they are disabled), but _start() sees that the DMA
is stopped, so it starts it.  The problem is that it sends the
transaction that has just finished again, because pl330_update()
hasn't mark it as done yet.

This patch fixes this race condition by not calling _start() if the
DMA is already executing transactions.  When interrupts are reenabled,
pl330_update() will call _start().

Reference: <1317892206-3600-1-git-send-email-javi.merino@arm.com>

Signed-off-by: Javi Merino <javi.merino@arm.com>
Acked-by: Jassi Brar <jassi.brar@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
arch/arm/common/pl330.c