On Fri, Mar 15 2013, UCHINO Satoshi <[email protected]> wrote:
> Without this memory barrier, the file-storage thread may fail to
> escape from the following while loop, because it may observe new
> common->thread_wakeup_needed and old bh->state which are updated by
> the callback functions.
>
>       /* Wait for the CBW to arrive */
>       while (bh->state != BUF_STATE_FULL) {
>               rc = sleep_thread(common);
>               if (rc)
>                       return rc;
>       }
>
> Cc: [email protected]
> Signed-off-by: UCHINO Satoshi <[email protected]>
> ---
>  drivers/usb/gadget/f_mass_storage.c |    2 ++
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/usb/gadget/f_mass_storage.c 
> b/drivers/usb/gadget/f_mass_storage.c
> index fc5c16c..0b6d351 100644
> --- a/drivers/usb/gadget/f_mass_storage.c
> +++ b/drivers/usb/gadget/f_mass_storage.c
> @@ -414,6 +414,7 @@ static int fsg_set_halt(struct fsg_dev *fsg, struct 
> usb_ep *ep)
>  static void wakeup_thread(struct fsg_common *common)
>  {
>       /* Tell the main thread that something has happened */
> +     smp_wmb();
>       common->thread_wakeup_needed = 1;
>       if (common->thread_task)
>               wake_up_process(common->thread_task);
> @@ -632,6 +633,7 @@ static int sleep_thread(struct fsg_common *common)
>       }
>       __set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);
>       common->thread_wakeup_needed = 0;
> +     smp_rmb();
>       return rc;
>  }

In both places, add comment describing why the barrier is needed.

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