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FAILED: patch "[PATCH] media: cec: avoid decrementing transmit_queue_sz if it is 0" failed to apply to 4.14-stable tree

PATCH [email protected] 1 participant 1 message Feb 9, 2020

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The patch below does not apply to the 4.14-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to <[email protected]>.

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From 4be77174c3fafc450527a0c383bb2034d2db6a2d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Hans Verkuil <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2019 23:48:09 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] media: cec: avoid decrementing transmit_queue_sz if it is 0

WARN if transmit_queue_sz is 0 but do not decrement it. The CEC adapter will become unresponsive if it goes below 0 since then it thinks there are 4 billion messages in the queue.

Obviously this should not happen, but a driver bug could cause this.

Signed-off-by Hans Verkuil <[email protected]>
Cc <[email protected]> # for v4.12 and up
Signed-off-by Mauro Carvalho Chehab <[email protected]>
drivers/media/cec/cec-adap.c +12 -2
index e90c30dac68b..1060e633b623 100644
@@ -380,7 +380,8 @@ static void cec_data_cancel(struct cec_data *data, u8 tx_status)
 	} else {
 		list_del_init(&data->list);
 		if (!(data->msg.tx_status & CEC_TX_STATUS_OK))
-			data->adap->transmit_queue_sz--;
+			if (!WARN_ON(!data->adap->transmit_queue_sz))
+				data->adap->transmit_queue_sz--;
 	}
 
 	if (data->msg.tx_status & CEC_TX_STATUS_OK) {

@@ -432,6 +433,14 @@ static void cec_flush(struct cec_adapter *adap)
 		 * need to do anything special in that case.
 		 */
 	}
+	/*
+	 * If something went wrong and this counter isn't what it should
+	 * be, then this will reset it back to 0. Warn if it is not 0,
+	 * since it indicates a bug, either in this framework or in a
+	 * CEC driver.
+	 */
+	if (WARN_ON(adap->transmit_queue_sz))
+		adap->transmit_queue_sz = 0;
 }
 
 /*

@@ -522,7 +531,8 @@ int cec_thread_func(void *_adap)
 		data = list_first_entry(&adap->transmit_queue,
 					struct cec_data, list);
 		list_del_init(&data->list);
-		adap->transmit_queue_sz--;
+		if (!WARN_ON(!data->adap->transmit_queue_sz))
+			adap->transmit_queue_sz--;
 
 		/* Make this the current transmitting message */
 		adap->transmitting = data;