Re: [PATCH] cdc-acm: some enhancement on acm delayed write

From: Johan Hovold
Date: Fri Apr 11 2014 - 05:46:01 EST


On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 12:22:22PM +0200, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-04-08 at 09:33 +0200, Johan Hovold wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 11:05:20AM +0800, Xiao Jin wrote:
> > > We find two problems on acm tty write delayed mechanism.
> >
> > Then you should split this into two patches.
> >
> > > (1) When acm resume, the delayed wb will be started. But now
> > > only one write can be saved during acm suspend. More acm write
> > > may be abandoned.
> >
> > Why not simply return 0 in write and use the tty buffering rather than
> > implement another buffer in cdc_acm?
>
> Yes. We need a single buffer because the tty layer is not happy
> when you accept no data. But we should be able to refuse subsequent
> writes. Could you test this patch?
>
> Regards
> Oliver
>
> From 1d44c1f2a10b5617824a37c8ec51f5547e482259 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@xxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2014 12:17:39 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH] cdc-acm: fix consecutive writes while device is suspended
>
> CDC-ACM needs to handle one attempt to write to a suspended
> device because we told the tty layer that there is room.
> A second attempt may and must fail or we drop data.
>
> Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@xxxxxxx>
> CC: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> ---
> drivers/usb/class/cdc-acm.c | 6 ++++--
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/usb/class/cdc-acm.c b/drivers/usb/class/cdc-acm.c
> index 900f7ff..7ad3105 100644
> --- a/drivers/usb/class/cdc-acm.c
> +++ b/drivers/usb/class/cdc-acm.c
> @@ -646,10 +646,12 @@ static int acm_tty_write(struct tty_struct *tty,
>
> usb_autopm_get_interface_async(acm->control);
> if (acm->susp_count) {
> - if (!acm->delayed_wb)
> + if (!acm->delayed_wb) {
> acm->delayed_wb = wb;
> - else
> + } else {
> usb_autopm_put_interface_async(acm->control);
> + count = 0;

You would still leak write urbs here, unless you set wb.use = 0.

> + }
> spin_unlock_irqrestore(&acm->write_lock, flags);
> return count; /* A white lie */
> }
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