ice: make writes to /dev/gnssX synchronous

The current ice driver's GNSS write implementation buffers writes and
works through them asynchronously in a kthread. That's bad because:
 - The GNSS write_raw operation is supposed to be synchronous[1][2].
 - There is no upper bound on the number of pending writes.
   Userspace can submit writes much faster than the driver can process,
   consuming unlimited amounts of kernel memory.

A patch that's currently on review[3] ("[v3,net] ice: Write all GNSS
buffers instead of first one") would add one more problem:
 - The possibility of waiting for a very long time to flush the write
   work when doing rmmod, softlockups.

To fix these issues, simplify the implementation: Drop the buffering,
the write_work, and make the writes synchronous.

I tested this with gpsd and ubxtool.

[1] https://events19.linuxfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/The-GNSS-Subsystem-Johan-Hovold-Hovold-Consulting-AB.pdf
    "User interface" slide.
[2] A comment in drivers/gnss/core.c:gnss_write():
        /* Ignoring O_NONBLOCK, write_raw() is synchronous. */
[3] https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/intel-wired-lan/patch/[email protected]/

Fixes: d6b98c8 ("ice: add write functionality for GNSS TTY")
Signed-off-by: Michal Schmidt <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Sunitha Mekala <[email protected]> (A Contingent worker at Intel)
Signed-off-by: Tony Nguyen <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>

Author: michich

drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_common.c

@@ -5160,7 +5160,7 @@ ice_aq_read_i2c(struct ice_hw *hw, struct ice_aqc_link_topo_addr topo_addr,
  */
 int
 ice_aq_write_i2c(struct ice_hw *hw, struct ice_aqc_link_topo_addr topo_addr,
-		 u16 bus_addr, __le16 addr, u8 params, u8 *data,
+		 u16 bus_addr, __le16 addr, u8 params, const u8 *data,
 		 struct ice_sq_cd *cd)
 {
 	struct ice_aq_desc desc = { 0 };

drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_common.h

@@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ ice_aq_read_i2c(struct ice_hw *hw, struct ice_aqc_link_topo_addr topo_addr,
 		struct ice_sq_cd *cd);
 int
 ice_aq_write_i2c(struct ice_hw *hw, struct ice_aqc_link_topo_addr topo_addr,
-		 u16 bus_addr, __le16 addr, u8 params, u8 *data,
+		 u16 bus_addr, __le16 addr, u8 params, const u8 *data,
 		 struct ice_sq_cd *cd);
 bool ice_fw_supports_report_dflt_cfg(struct ice_hw *hw);
 #endif /* _ICE_COMMON_H_ */

drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_gnss.c

@@ -16,8 +16,8 @@
  * * number of bytes written - success
  * * negative - error code
  */
-static unsigned int
-ice_gnss_do_write(struct ice_pf *pf, unsigned char *buf, unsigned int size)
+static int
+ice_gnss_do_write(struct ice_pf *pf, const unsigned char *buf, unsigned int size)
 {
 	struct ice_aqc_link_topo_addr link_topo;
 	struct ice_hw *hw = &pf->hw;
@@ -72,39 +72,7 @@ ice_gnss_do_write(struct ice_pf *pf, unsigned char *buf, unsigned int size)
 	dev_err(ice_pf_to_dev(pf), "GNSS failed to write, offset=%u, size=%u, err=%d\n",
 		offset, size, err);
 
-	return offset;
-}
-
-/**
- * ice_gnss_write_pending - Write all pending data to internal GNSS
- * @work: GNSS write work structure
- */
-static void ice_gnss_write_pending(struct kthread_work *work)
-{
-	struct gnss_serial *gnss = container_of(work, struct gnss_serial,
-						write_work);
-	struct ice_pf *pf = gnss->back;
-
-	if (!pf)
-		return;
-
-	if (!test_bit(ICE_FLAG_GNSS, pf->flags))
-		return;
-
-	if (!list_empty(&gnss->queue)) {
-		struct gnss_write_buf *write_buf = NULL;
-		unsigned int bytes;
-
-		write_buf = list_first_entry(&gnss->queue,
-					     struct gnss_write_buf, queue);
-
-		bytes = ice_gnss_do_write(pf, write_buf->buf, write_buf->size);
-		dev_dbg(ice_pf_to_dev(pf), "%u bytes written to GNSS\n", bytes);
-
-		list_del(&write_buf->queue);
-		kfree(write_buf->buf);
-		kfree(write_buf);
-	}
+	return err;
 }
 
 /**
@@ -220,8 +188,6 @@ static struct gnss_serial *ice_gnss_struct_init(struct ice_pf *pf)
 	pf->gnss_serial = gnss;
 
 	kthread_init_delayed_work(&gnss->read_work, ice_gnss_read);
-	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&gnss->queue);
-	kthread_init_work(&gnss->write_work, ice_gnss_write_pending);
 	kworker = kthread_create_worker(0, "ice-gnss-%s", dev_name(dev));
 	if (IS_ERR(kworker)) {
 		kfree(gnss);
@@ -281,7 +247,6 @@ static void ice_gnss_close(struct gnss_device *gdev)
 	if (!gnss)
 		return;
 
-	kthread_cancel_work_sync(&gnss->write_work);
 	kthread_cancel_delayed_work_sync(&gnss->read_work);
 }
 
@@ -300,10 +265,7 @@ ice_gnss_write(struct gnss_device *gdev, const unsigned char *buf,
 	       size_t count)
 {
 	struct ice_pf *pf = gnss_get_drvdata(gdev);
-	struct gnss_write_buf *write_buf;
 	struct gnss_serial *gnss;
-	unsigned char *cmd_buf;
-	int err = count;
 
 	/* We cannot write a single byte using our I2C implementation. */
 	if (count <= 1 || count > ICE_GNSS_TTY_WRITE_BUF)
@@ -319,24 +281,7 @@ ice_gnss_write(struct gnss_device *gdev, const unsigned char *buf,
 	if (!gnss)
 		return -ENODEV;
 
-	cmd_buf = kcalloc(count, sizeof(*buf), GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (!cmd_buf)
-		return -ENOMEM;
-
-	memcpy(cmd_buf, buf, count);
-	write_buf = kzalloc(sizeof(*write_buf), GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (!write_buf) {
-		kfree(cmd_buf);
-		return -ENOMEM;
-	}
-
-	write_buf->buf = cmd_buf;
-	write_buf->size = count;
-	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&write_buf->queue);
-	list_add_tail(&write_buf->queue, &gnss->queue);
-	kthread_queue_work(gnss->kworker, &gnss->write_work);
-
-	return err;
+	return ice_gnss_do_write(pf, buf, count);
 }
 
 static const struct gnss_operations ice_gnss_ops = {
@@ -432,7 +377,6 @@ void ice_gnss_exit(struct ice_pf *pf)
 	if (pf->gnss_serial) {
 		struct gnss_serial *gnss = pf->gnss_serial;
 
-		kthread_cancel_work_sync(&gnss->write_work);
 		kthread_cancel_delayed_work_sync(&gnss->read_work);
 		kthread_destroy_worker(gnss->kworker);
 		gnss->kworker = NULL;

drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_gnss.h

@@ -22,26 +22,16 @@
  */
 #define ICE_GNSS_UBX_WRITE_BYTES	(ICE_MAX_I2C_WRITE_BYTES + 1)
 
-struct gnss_write_buf {
-	struct list_head queue;
-	unsigned int size;
-	unsigned char *buf;
-};
-
 /**
  * struct gnss_serial - data used to initialize GNSS TTY port
  * @back: back pointer to PF
  * @kworker: kwork thread for handling periodic work
  * @read_work: read_work function for handling GNSS reads
- * @write_work: write_work function for handling GNSS writes
- * @queue: write buffers queue
  */
 struct gnss_serial {
 	struct ice_pf *back;
 	struct kthread_worker *kworker;
 	struct kthread_delayed_work read_work;
-	struct kthread_work write_work;
-	struct list_head queue;
 };
 
 #if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_GNSS)