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    regulator: core: fix a possible race in disable_work handling · c9ccaa0c
    Tirupathi Reddy authored
    A race condition between queueing and processing the disable_work
    instances results in having a work instance in the queue and the
    deferred_disables variable of regulator device structure having a
    value '0'. If no new regulator_disable_deferred() call later from
    clients, the deferred_disables variable value remains '0' and hits
    BUG() in regulator_disable_work() when the queued instance scheduled
    for processing the work.
    
    The race occurs as below:
    
    	Core-0					     Core-1
    	.....	       /* deferred_disables = 2 */   .....
    	.....	       /* disable_work is queued */  .....
    	.....					     .....
    regulator_disable_deferred: 		regulator_disable_work:
       mutex_lock(&rdev->mutex);			     .....
       rdev->deferred_disables++;		             .....
       mutex_unlock(&rdev->mutex);			     .....
       queue_delayed_work(...)		    mutex_lock(&rdev->mutex);
    	.....				    count =rdev->deferred_disables;
    	.....				    rdev->deferred_disables = 0;
    	.....					     .....
    	.....				    mutex_unlock(&rdev->mutex);
    	.....					     .....
    	.....				    return;
    	.....					     .....
    	/* No new regulator_disable_deferred() calls from clients */
    	/* The newly queued instance is scheduled for processing */
    	.....					     .....
    regulator_disable_work:
    	.....
       mutex_lock(&rdev->mutex);
       BUG_ON(!rdev->deferred_disables); /* deferred_disables = 0 */
    
    The race is fixed by removing the work instance that is queued while
    processing the previous queued instance. Cancel the newly queued instance
    from disable_work() handler just after reset the deferred_disables variable
    to value '0'. Also move the work queueing step before mutex_unlock in
    regulator_disable_deferred().
    
    Also use mod_delayed_work() in the pace of queue_delayed_work() as
    queue_delayed_work() always uses the delay requested in the first call
    when multiple consumers call regulator_disable_deferred() close in time
    and does not guarantee the semantics of regulator_disable_deferred().
    Signed-off-by: default avatarTirupathi Reddy <tirupath@codeaurora.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
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