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libusb: Properly wait for transfer cancellation on read_thread() exit
While triaging libusb bugs, I took an indepth look at: https://github.com/libusbx/libusbx/issues/25 This has lead me to the conclusion that there are 2 issues with hidapi's libusb code wrt waiting for the transfer cancellation on read_thread() exit: 1) There is a race where hid_close() can successfully cancel the transfer after a read_callback() has submitted it but before read_thread() checks shutdown_thread. If this race is hit, then the libusb_cancel_transfer() in read_thread() will fail, causing read_thread() to not call libusb_handle_events() to complete the cancelled transfer. hid_close() will then free the transfer, and if later on libusb_handle_events() gets called on the same context, it will try to complete the now freed transfer. This is what I believe leads to the segfault described in https://github.com/libusbx/libusbx/issues/25 2) hidapi uses one read_thread() per hid_device, so if there are multiple hid_devices then there are multiple threads calling libusb_handle_events(), in this case there is no guarantee that a single libusb_handle_events() call will successfully lead to the cancelled transfer being completed. If the transfer completion is already handled by another read_thread() and there are no other events, then the libusb_handle_events() call will hang, and thus the pthread_join() and thus hidapi_close() will hang. As number 2 is a generic problem found in more libusb apps, libusb has gotten a new API called libusb_handle_events_completed(), which takes an extra pointer to an int, whose contents must be set to nonzero on completion by the callback, which allows waiting for the completion of a specific transfer in a race-free manner. This patch switches the waiting for the transfer's final completion to using libusb_handle_events_completed(), thereby fixing both issues. Note the while is necessary since libusb_handle_events_completed(), like libusb_handle_events(), will return as soon as it has handled *any* event. The difference with libusb_handle_events_completed() is that once it has all the necessary internal libusb locks, it checks the contents of the completed parameter, and will bail if that has become nonzero without waiting for further events. Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <[email protected]>
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