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SubjectRe: [PATCH] leds: Add mutex protection in brightness_show()
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Hi,

On 04-11-16 08:52, Jacek Anaszewski wrote:
> Initially the claim about no need for lock in brightness_show()
> was valid as the function was just returning unchanged
> LED brightness. After the addition of led_update_brightness() this
> is no longer true, as the function can change the brightness if
> a LED class driver implements brightness_get op. It can lead to
> races between led_update_brightness() and led_set_brightness(),
> resulting in overwriting new brightness with the old one before
> the former is written to the device.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jacek Anaszewski <j.anaszewski@samsung.com>
> Cc: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
> Cc: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>
> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
> Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
> ---
> drivers/leds/led-class.c | 3 ++-
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/leds/led-class.c b/drivers/leds/led-class.c
> index 731e4eb..0c2307b 100644
> --- a/drivers/leds/led-class.c
> +++ b/drivers/leds/led-class.c
> @@ -30,8 +30,9 @@ static ssize_t brightness_show(struct device *dev,
> {
> struct led_classdev *led_cdev = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
>
> - /* no lock needed for this */
> + mutex_lock(&led_cdev->led_access);
> led_update_brightness(led_cdev);
> + mutex_unlock(&led_cdev->led_access);
>
> return sprintf(buf, "%u\n", led_cdev->brightness);
> }
>

I'm afraid that this fix is not enough, the led_access lock is only
held when the brightness is being updated through sysfs, not for
trigger / sw-blinking updates (which cannot take a mutex as they
may be called from non blocking contexts).

We may need to consider to add a spinlock to the led_classdev and
always lock that when calling into the driver, except for when
the driver has a brightness_set_blocking callback. Which will need
special handling.

Regards,

Hans

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