HID: i2c-hid: remove I2C_HID_READ_PENDING flag to prevent lock-up
authorNam Cao <namcao@linutronix.de>
Mon, 18 Mar 2024 10:59:02 +0000 (11:59 +0100)
committerJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.com>
Thu, 21 Mar 2024 12:26:35 +0000 (13:26 +0100)
commit9c0f59e47a90c54d0153f8ddc0f80d7a36207d0e
tree2ae614f80eb47e1e378ed0b23ff9e1d33e4b164b
parent3e78a6c0d3e02e4cf881dc84c5127e9990f939d6
HID: i2c-hid: remove I2C_HID_READ_PENDING flag to prevent lock-up

The flag I2C_HID_READ_PENDING is used to serialize I2C operations.
However, this is not necessary, because I2C core already has its own
locking for that.

More importantly, this flag can cause a lock-up: if the flag is set in
i2c_hid_xfer() and an interrupt happens, the interrupt handler
(i2c_hid_irq) will check this flag and return immediately without doing
anything, then the interrupt handler will be invoked again in an
infinite loop.

Since interrupt handler is an RT task, it takes over the CPU and the
flag-clearing task never gets scheduled, thus we have a lock-up.

Delete this unnecessary flag.

Reported-and-tested-by: Eva Kurchatova <nyandarknessgirl@gmail.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CA+eeCSPUDpUg76ZO8dszSbAGn+UHjcyv8F1J-CUPVARAzEtW9w@mail.gmail.com
Fixes: 4a200c3b9a40 ("HID: i2c-hid: introduce HID over i2c specification implementation")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Nam Cao <namcao@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.com>
drivers/hid/i2c-hid/i2c-hid-core.c