linux-stable.git/drivers/firewire, branch linux-2.6.33.y

firewire: core: fix unstable I/O with Canon camcorder

2011-03-21T19:44:57+00:00

commit 6044565af458e7fa6e748bff437ecc49dea88d79 upstream.

Regression since commit 10389536742c, "firewire: core: check for 1394a
compliant IRM, fix inaccessibility of Sony camcorder":

The camcorder Canon MV5i generates lots of bus resets when asynchronous
requests are sent to it (e.g. Config ROM read requests or FCP Command
write requests) if the camcorder is not root node.  This causes drop-
outs in videos or makes the camcorder entirely inaccessible.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=633260

Fix this by allowing any Canon device, even if it is a pre-1394a IRM
like MV5i are, to remain root node (if it is at least Cycle Master
capable).  With the FireWire controller cards that I tested, MV5i always
becomes root node when plugged in and left to its own devices.

Reported-by: Ralf Lange
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

firewire: ohci: fix race in AR split packet handling

2011-03-21T19:43:54+00:00

commit a1f805e5e73a8fe166b71c6592d3837df0cd5e2e upstream.

When handling an AR buffer that has been completely filled, we assumed
that its descriptor will not be read by the controller and can be
overwritten.  However, when the last received packet happens to end at
the end of the buffer, the controller might not yet have moved on to the
next buffer and might read the branch address later.  If we overwrite
and free the page before that, the DMA context will either go dead
because of an invalid Z value, or go off into some random memory.

To fix this, ensure that the descriptor does not get overwritten by
using only the actual buffer instead of the entire page for reassembling
the split packet.  Furthermore, to avoid freeing the page too early,
move on to the next buffer only when some data in it guarantees that the
controller has moved on.

This should eliminate the remaining firewire-net problems.

Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch 
Tested-by: Maxim Levitsky 
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

firewire: ohci: fix buffer overflow in AR split packet handling

2011-03-21T19:43:53+00:00

commit 85f7ffd5d2b320f73912b15fe8cef34bae297daf upstream.

When the controller had to split a received asynchronous packet into two
buffers, the driver tries to reassemble it by copying both parts into
the first page.  However, if size + rest > PAGE_SIZE, i.e., if the yet
unhandled packets before the split packet, the split packet itself, and
any received packets after the split packet are together larger than one
page, then the memory after the first page would get overwritten.

To fix this, do not try to copy the data of all unhandled packets at
once, but copy the possibly needed data every time when handling
a packet.

This gets rid of most of the infamous crashes and data corruptions when
using firewire-net.

Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch 
Tested-by: Maxim Levitsky 
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

firewire: core: check for 1394a compliant IRM, fix inaccessibility of Sony camcorder

2010-07-05T18:16:01+00:00

commit 10389536742cefbedecb67a5b2906f155cf3a1c3 upstream.

Per IEEE 1394 clause 8.4.2.3, a contender for the IRM role shall check
whether the current IRM complies to 1394a-2000 or later.  If not force a
compliant node (e.g. itself) to become IRM.  This was implemented in the
older ieee1394 driver but not yet in firewire-core.

An older Sony camcorder (Sony DCR-TRV25) which implements 1394-1995 IRM
but neither 1394a-2000 IRM nor BM was now found to cause an
interoperability bug:
  - Camcorder becomes root node when plugged in, hence gets IRM role.
  - firewire-core successfully contends for BM role, proceeds to perform
    gap count optimization and resets the bus.
  - Sony camcorder ignores presence of a BM (against the spec, this is
    a firmware bug), performs its idea of gap count optimization and
    resets the bus.
  - Preceding two steps are repeated endlessly, bus never settles,
    regular I/O is practically impossible.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.firewire.user/3913

This is an interoperability regression from the old to the new drivers.
Fix it indirectly by adding the 1394a IRM check.  The spec suggests
three and a half methods to determine 1394a compliance of a remote IRM;
we choose the method of testing the Config_ROM.Bus_Info.generation
field.  This is data that firewire-core should have readily available at
this point, i.e. does not require extra I/O.

Reported-by: Clemens Ladisch  (missing 1394a check)
Reported-by: H. S.  (issue with Sony DCR-TRV25)
Tested-by: H. S. 
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

firewire: ohci: retransmit isochronous transmit packets on cycle loss

2010-02-14T14:10:41+00:00

In isochronous transmit DMA descriptors, link the skip address pointer
back to the descriptor itself.  When a cycle is lost, the controller
will send the packet in the next cycle, instead of terminating the
entire DMA program.

There are two reasons for this:

* This behaviour is compatible with the old IEEE1394 stack.  Old
  applications would not expect the DMA program to stop in this case.

* Since the OHCI driver does not report any uncompleted packets, the
  context would stop silently; clients would not have any chance to
  detect and handle this error without a watchdog timer.

Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch 

Pieter Palmers notes:

"The reason I added this retry behavior to the old stack is because some
cards now and then fail to send a packet (e.g. the o2micro card in my
dell laptop).  I couldn't figure out why exactly this happens, my best
guess is that the card cannot fetch the payload data on time.  This
happens much more frequently when sending large packets, which leads me
to suspect that there are some contention issues with the DMA that fills
the transmit FIFO.

In the old stack it was a pretty critical issue as it resulted in a
freeze of the userspace application.

The omission of a packet doesn't necessarily have to be an issue.  E.g.
in IEC61883 streams the DBC field can be used to detect discontinuities
in the stream.  So as long as the other side doesn't bail when no
[packet] is present in a cycle, there is not really a problem.

I'm not convinced though that retrying is the proper solution, but it is
simple and effective for what it had to do.  And I think there are no
reasons not to do it this way.  Userspace can still detect this by
checking the cycle the descriptor was sent in."

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter  (changelog, comment)

firewire: net: fix panic in fwnet_write_complete

2010-02-01T20:51:28+00:00

In the transmit path of firewire-net (IPv4 over 1394), the following
race condition may occur:
  - The networking soft IRQ inserts a datagram into the 1394 async
    request transmit DMA.
  - The 1394 async transmit completion tasklet runs to finish cleaning
    up (unlink datagram from list of pending ones, release skb and
    outbound 1394 transaction object) --- before the networking soft IRQ
    had a chance to proceed and add the datagram to the list of pending
    datagrams.

This caused a panic in the 1394 async transmit completion tasklet when
it dereferenced unitialized list heads:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15077

The fix is to add checks in the tx soft IRQ and in the tasklet to
determine which of these two is the last referrer to the transaction
object.  Then handle the cleanup of the object by the last referrer
rather than assuming that the tasklet is always the last one.

There is another similar race:  Between said tasklet and fwnet_close,
i.e. at ifdown.  However, that race is much less likely to occur in
practice and shall be fixed in a separate update.

Reported-by: Илья Басин 
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter

firewire: ohci: fix crashes with TSB43AB23 on 64bit systems

2010-01-27T17:24:53+00:00

Unsurprisingly, Texas Instruments TSB43AB23 exhibits the same behaviour
as TSB43AB22/A in dual buffer IR DMA mode:  If descriptors are located
at physical addresses above the 31 bit address range (2 GB), the
controller will overwrite random memory.  With luck, this merely
prevents video reception.  With only a little less luck, the machine
crashes.

We use the same workaround here as with TSB43AB22/A:  Switch off the
dual buffer capability flag and use packet-per-buffer IR DMA instead.
Another possible workaround would be to limit the coherent DMA mask to
31 bits.

In Linux 2.6.33, this change serves effectively only as documentation
since dual buffer mode is not used for any controller anymore.  But
somebody might want to re-enable it in the future to make use of
features of dual buffer DMA that are not available in packet-per-buffer
mode.

In Linux 2.6.32 and older, this update is vital for anyone with this
controller, more than 2 GB RAM, a 64 bit kernel, and FireWire video or
audio applications.

We have at least four reports:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13808
http://marc.info/?l=linux1394-user&m=126154279004083
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=552142
http://marc.info/?l=linux1394-user&m=126432246128386

Reported-by: Paul Johnson
Reported-by: Ronneil Camara
Reported-by: G Zornetzer
Reported-by: Mark Thompson
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter

firewire: core: fix use-after-free regression in FCP handler

2010-01-26T19:54:50+00:00

Commit db5d247a "firewire: fix use of multiple AV/C devices, allow
multiple FCP listeners" introduced a regression into 2.6.33-rc3:
The core freed payloads of incoming requests to FCP_Request or
FCP_Response before a userspace driver accessed them.

We need to copy such payloads for each registered userspace client
and free the copies according to the lifetime rules of non-FCP client
request resources.

(This could possibly be optimized by reference counts instead of
copies.)

The presently only kernelspace driver which listens for FCP requests,
firedtv, was not affected because it already copies FCP frames into an
own buffer before returning to firewire-core's FCP handler dispatcher.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter

firewire: core: add_descriptor size check

2010-01-26T19:54:50+00:00

Presently, firewire-core only checks whether descriptors that are to be
added by userspace drivers to the local node's config ROM do not exceed
a size of 256 quadlets.  However, the sum of the bare minimum ROM plus
all descriptors (from firewire-core, from firewire-net, from userspace)
must not exceed 256 quadlets.

Otherwise, the bounds of a statically allocated buffer will be
overwritten.  If the kernel survives that, firewire-core will
subsequently be unable to parse the local node's config ROM.

(Note, userspace drivers can add descriptors only through device files
of local nodes.  These are usually only accessible by root, unlike
device files of remote nodes which may be accessible to lesser
privileged users.)

Therefore add a test which takes the actual present and required ROM
size into account for all descriptors of kernelspace and userspace
drivers.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter

firewire, ieee1394: update Kconfig help

2009-12-29T18:58:17+00:00

Update the Kconfig help texts of both stacks to encourage a general move
from the older to the newer drivers.  However, do not label ieee1394 as
"Obsolete" yet, as the newer drivers have not been deployed as default
stack in the majority of Linux distributions yet, and those who start
doing so now may still want to install the old drivers as fallback for
unforeseen issues.

Since Linux 2.6.32, FireWire audio devices can be driven by the newer
firewire driver stack too, hence remove an outdated comment about audio
devices.  Also remove comments about library versions since the 2nd
generation of libraw1394 and libdc1394 is now in common use; details on
library versions can be read at the wiki link from the help texts.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter