mei: me: do not reset when less than expected data is received

There is a race in ME hardware between data copy for host and interrupt
delivery. An interrupt can be delivered prior to whole data copied for the
host to read but rather then going trough the reset we just merely need to
wait for the next interrupt.

The bug is visible in read/write stress with multiple connections per client

This is a regression caused as a side effect of the commit:
commit 544f946014
mei: do not run reset flow from the interrupt thread

Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.14
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This commit is contained in:
Tomas Winkler 2014-03-03 00:21:28 +02:00 committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
parent 07792c7e10
commit b1b94b5d38
2 changed files with 10 additions and 1 deletions

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@ -507,7 +507,16 @@ irqreturn_t mei_me_irq_thread_handler(int irq, void *dev_id)
while (slots > 0) {
dev_dbg(&dev->pdev->dev, "slots to read = %08x\n", slots);
rets = mei_irq_read_handler(dev, &complete_list, &slots);
/* There is a race between ME write and interrupt delivery:
* Not all data is always available immediately after the
* interrupt, so try to read again on the next interrupt.
*/
if (rets == -ENODATA)
break;
if (rets && dev->dev_state != MEI_DEV_RESETTING) {
dev_err(&dev->pdev->dev, "mei_irq_read_handler ret = %d.\n",
rets);
schedule_work(&dev->reset_work);
goto end;
}

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@ -351,7 +351,7 @@ int mei_irq_read_handler(struct mei_device *dev,
dev_err(&dev->pdev->dev, "less data available than length=%08x.\n",
*slots);
/* we can't read the message */
ret = -EBADMSG;
ret = -ENODATA;
goto end;
}