On Thu, 1 Nov 2012, Vincent Palatin wrote:
> In the former code, we have a race condition between the first interrupt
> and the regs field initilization in the usb_hcd structure.
> If the OHCI irq fires before hcd->regs is set, we are getting a null
> pointer dereference in ohci_irq.
>
> When calling usb_add_hcd(), it first executes the reset() callback,
> then enables the ohci interrupt, and finally executes the start()
> callback. So moving the ohci_init() call which actually initializes the
> reg field from start() to reset() should remove the race.
>
> Tested by enabling the external HSIC hub in the bootloader on an exynos5
> machine and booting. With the former code, this triggers an early interrupt
> about 50% of the boots and a subsequent kernel panic in ohci_irq when trying
> to access the registers.
>
> Cc: Olof Johansson <ol...@chromium.org>
> Cc: Doug Anderson <diand...@chromium.org>
> Cc: Arjun.K.V <arjun...@samsung.com>
> Cc: Vikas Sajjan <vikas.saj...@samsung.com>
> Cc: Abhilash Kesavan <a.kesa...@samsung.com>
> Signed-off-by: Vincent Palatin <vpala...@chromium.org>
> ---
> drivers/usb/host/ohci-exynos.c | 10 ++++++----
> 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/usb/host/ohci-exynos.c b/drivers/usb/host/ohci-exynos.c
> index 20a5008..f04cfde 100644
> --- a/drivers/usb/host/ohci-exynos.c
> +++ b/drivers/usb/host/ohci-exynos.c
> @@ -23,6 +23,11 @@ struct exynos_ohci_hcd {
> struct clk *clk;
> };
>
> +static int ohci_exynos_reset(struct usb_hcd *hcd)
> +{
> + return ohci_init(hcd_to_ohci(hcd));
> +}
> +
> static int ohci_exynos_start(struct usb_hcd *hcd)
> {
> struct ohci_hcd *ohci = hcd_to_ohci(hcd);
> @@ -30,10 +35,6 @@ static int ohci_exynos_start(struct usb_hcd *hcd)
>
> ohci_dbg(ohci, "ohci_exynos_start, ohci:%p", ohci);
>
> - ret = ohci_init(ohci);
> - if (ret < 0)
> - return ret;
> -
> ret = ohci_run(ohci);
> if (ret < 0) {
> dev_err(hcd->self.controller, "can't start %s\n",
> @@ -53,6 +54,7 @@ static const struct hc_driver exynos_ohci_hc_driver = {
> .irq = ohci_irq,
> .flags = HCD_MEMORY|HCD_USB11,
>
> + .reset = ohci_exynos_reset,
> .start = ohci_exynos_start,
> .stop = ohci_stop,
> .shutdown = ohci_shutdown,
Quite right; every host controller driver must have a .reset routine.
Acked-by: Alan Stern <st...@rowland.harvard.edu>
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