brcmfmac: fix waitqueue_active without memory barrier in brcmfmac driver
brcmf_msgbuf_ioctl_resp_wake() seems to be missing a memory barrier
which might cause the waker to not notice the waiter and miss sending a
wake_up as in the following figure.
brcmf_msgbuf_ioctl_resp_wake brcmf_msgbuf_ioctl_resp_wait
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if (waitqueue_active(&msgbuf->ioctl_resp_wait))
/* The CPU might reorder the test for
the waitqueue up here, before
prior writes complete */
/* wait_event_timeout */
/* __wait_event_timeout */
/* ___wait_event */
prepare_to_wait_event(&wq, &__wait,
state);
if (msgbuf->ctl_completed)
...
msgbuf->ctl_completed = true;
schedule_timeout(__ret))
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There are three other place in drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/
which have similar code. The attached patch removes the call to
waitqueue_active() leaving just wake_up() behind. This fixes the
problem because the call to spin_lock_irqsave() in wake_up() will be an
ACQUIRE operation.
I found this issue when I was looking through the linux source code
for places calling waitqueue_active() before wake_up*(), but without
preceding memory barriers, after sending a patch to fix a similar
issue in drivers/tty/n_tty.c (Details about the original issue can be
found here: https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/9/28/849).
Reviewed-by: Hante Meuleman <meuleman@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Franky (Zhenhui) Lin <frankyl@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Pieter-Paul Giesberts <pieterpg@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Kosuke Tatsukawa <tatsu@ab.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>