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dmaengine: Fix dma_get_any_slave_channel() handling of private channels

PATCH New Jon Hunter 1 participant 1 message Apr 27, 2015

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PATCH 1/1 dmaengine: Fix dma_get_any_slave_channel() handling of private channels

The function dma_get_any_slave_channel() allocates private DMA channels by calling the internal private_candidate() function. However, when doing so, if a channel is successfully allocated, neither the DMA_PRIVATE flag is set or the privatecnt variable is incremented for the DMA controller. This will cause the following problems ...

1. A DMA controller initialised with the DMA_PRIVATE flag set (ie. channels should always be private) will become public incorrectly when a channel is allocated and then released. This is because:
- A DMA controller initialised with DMA_PRIVATE set will have a initial privatecnt of 1.
- The privatecnt is not incremented by dma_get_any_slave_channel().
- When the channel is released via dma_release_channel(), the privatecnt is decremented and the DMA_PRIVATE flag is cleared because the privatecnt value is 0.
2. For a DMA controller initialised with the DMA_PRIVATE flag set, if more than one DMA channel is allocated successfully via dma_get_any_slave_channel() and then one channel is released, the following issues can occur:
i). All channels currently allocated will appear as public because
the DMA_PRIVATE will be cleared (as described in #1).
ii). Subsequent calls to dma_get_any_slave_channel() will fail even
if there are channels available. The reason this fails is that the private_candidate() function (called by dma_get_any_slave_channel()) will detect the DMA controller is not private but has active channels and so cannot allocate any private channels (see below code snippet).

/* devices with multiple channels need special handling as we need to
* ensure that all channels are either private or public. */
if (dev->chancnt > 1 && !dma_has_cap(DMA_PRIVATE, dev->cap_mask))

 		list_for_each_entry(chan, &dev->channels, device_node) {
			/* some channels are already publicly allocated */
			if (chan->client_count)
				return NULL;
		}

3. For a DMA controller initialised with the DMA_PRIVATE flag unset, if a private channel is allocated via dma_get_any_slave_channel(), then the DMA controller will still appear as public because the DMA_PRIVATE flag is not set and this will cause:
i). The allocated channel to appear as public
ii). Prevent any further private channels being allocated via
dma_get_any_slave_channel() (because private_candidate() will fail in the same way as described in 2.ii above).

Fix this by incrementing the privatecnt in dma_get_any_slave_channel(). If dma_get_any_slave_channel() allocates a channel also ensure the DMA_PRIVATE flag is set, in case it was not before. If the privatecnt becomes 0 then the DMA_PRIVATE flag should be cleared.

Cc Stephen Warren <[email protected]>

---
This issue was found when attempting to open and close a serial interface, that uses DMA, multiple times on a tegra device. When opening the serial device a 2nd time after closing, the DMA channel allocation would fail.

 drivers/dma/dmaengine.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
drivers/dma/dmaengine.c +5 -0
index 0e035a8cf401..03b0e22b4a68 100644
@@ -571,11 +571,16 @@ struct dma_chan *dma_get_any_slave_channel(struct dma_device *device)
 
 	chan = private_candidate(&mask, device, NULL, NULL);
 	if (chan) {
+		dma_cap_set(DMA_PRIVATE, device->cap_mask);
+		device->privatecnt++;
 		err = dma_chan_get(chan);
 		if (err) {
 			pr_debug("%s: failed to get %s: (%d)\n",
 				__func__, dma_chan_name(chan), err);
 			chan = NULL;
+
+			if (--device->privatecnt == 0)
+				dma_cap_clear(DMA_PRIVATE, device->cap_mask);
 		}
 	}
 
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