sc16is7xx: Fix for incorrect data being transmitted
UART drivers are meant to use the port spinlock within certain methods, to protect against reentrancy. The sc16is7xx driver does very little locking, presumably because when added it triggers "scheduling while atomic" errors. This is due to the use of mutexes within the regmap abstraction layer, and the mutex implementation's habit of sleeping the current thread while waiting for access. Unfortunately this lack of interlocking can lead to corruption of outbound data, which occurs when the buffer used for I2C transmission is used simultaneously by two threads - a work queue thread running sc16is7xx_tx_proc, and an IRQ thread in sc16is7xx_port_irq, both of which can call sc16is7xx_handle_tx. An earlier patch added efr_lock, a mutex that controls access to the EFR register. This mutex is already claimed in the IRQ handler, and all that is required is to claim the same mutex in sc16is7xx_tx_proc. See: https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/issues/4885 Fixes: 6393ff1c ("sc16is7xx: Use threaded IRQ") Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Phil Elwell <phil@raspberrypi.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220216160802.1026013-1-phil@raspberrypi.comSigned-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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