Re: [RFCv2] Bluetooth: cancel_work instead of cancel_work_sync

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Hi Andrei,

On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 10:43 AM, Ulisses Furquim
<ulisses@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Andrei,
>
> On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Emeltchenko Andrei
> <Andrei.Emeltchenko.news@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > From: Andrei Emeltchenko <andrei.emeltchenko@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Fix deadlock when cancelling delayed work.
> >
> > [  584.676126] ======================================================
> > [  584.676126] [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ]
> > [  584.676126] 3.2.0-rc2niko+ #44
> > [  584.676126] -------------------------------------------------------
> > [  584.676126] kworker/u:1/30 is trying to acquire lock:
> > [  584.676126]  (&hdev->lock){+.+.+.}, at: [<f81f001c>] hci_conn_timeout+0x6c/0x190 [bluetooth]
> > [  584.676126]
> > [  584.676126] but task is already holding lock:
> > [  584.676126]  ((&(&conn->disc_work)->work)){+.+...}, at: [<c1065a78>] process_one_work+0x108/0x460
> > [  584.676126]
> > [  584.676126] which lock already depends on the new lock.
> > [  584.676126]
> > [  584.676126]
> > [  584.676126] the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is:
> > [  584.676126]
> > [  584.676126] -> #1 ((&(&conn->disc_work)->work)){+.+...}:
> > [  584.676126]        [<c1086748>] lock_acquire+0x88/0x110
> > [  584.676126]        [<c1066041>] wait_on_work+0x61/0x210
> > [  584.676126]        [<c106630a>] __cancel_work_timer+0x6a/0x110
> > [  584.676126]        [<c10663c0>] cancel_delayed_work_sync+0x10/0x20
> > [  584.676126]        [<f81f935b>] hci_event_packet+0x3b2b/0x4610 [bluetooth]
> > [  584.676126]        [<f81ea78e>] hci_rx_work+0x20e/0x4c0 [bluetooth]
> > [  584.676126]        [<c1065aec>] process_one_work+0x17c/0x460
> > [  584.676126]        [<c10672e4>] worker_thread+0x124/0x2c0
> > [  584.676126]        [<c106be44>] kthread+0x84/0x90
> > [  584.676126]        [<c1567f42>] kernel_thread_helper+0x6/0x10
> > [  584.676126]
> > [  584.676126] -> #0 (&hdev->lock){+.+.+.}:
> > [  584.676126]        [<c10852cd>] __lock_acquire+0xc0d/0x1ab0
> > [  584.676126]        [<c1086748>] lock_acquire+0x88/0x110
> > [  584.676126]        [<c155de50>] mutex_lock_nested+0x70/0x320
> > [  584.676126]        [<f81f001c>] hci_conn_timeout+0x6c/0x190 [bluetooth]
> > [  584.676126]        [<c1065aec>] process_one_work+0x17c/0x460
> > [  584.676126]        [<c10672e4>] worker_thread+0x124/0x2c0
> > [  584.676126]        [<c106be44>] kthread+0x84/0x90
> > [  584.676126]        [<c1567f42>] kernel_thread_helper+0x6/0x10
> > [  584.676126]
> > [  584.676126] other info that might help us debug this:
> > [  584.676126]
> > [  584.676126]  Possible unsafe locking scenario:
> > [  584.676126]
> > [  584.676126]        CPU0                    CPU1
> > [  584.676126]        ----                    ----
> > [  584.676126]   lock((&(&conn->disc_work)->work));
> > [  584.676126]                                lock(&hdev->lock);
> > [  584.676126]                                lock((&(&conn->disc_work)->work));
> > [  584.676126]   lock(&hdev->lock);
> > [  584.676126]
> > [  584.676126]  *** DEADLOCK ***
> > [  584.676126]
> > [  584.676126] 2 locks held by kworker/u:1/30:
> > [  584.676126]  #0:  (hdev->name){.+.+.+}, at: [<c1065a78>] process_one_work+0x108/0x460
> > [  584.676126]  #1:  ((&(&conn->disc_work)->work)){+.+...}, at: [<c1065a78>] process_one_work+0x108/0x460
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Andrei Emeltchenko <andrei.emeltchenko@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > ---
> >
> > v2 - use cancel_delayed_work instead of cancel_delayed_work_sync following
> > recommendation from Ulisses Furquim
> >
> >  net/bluetooth/hci_conn.c |    2 +-
> >  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/net/bluetooth/hci_conn.c b/net/bluetooth/hci_conn.c
> > index 3db4324..e478051 100644
> > --- a/net/bluetooth/hci_conn.c
> > +++ b/net/bluetooth/hci_conn.c
> > @@ -437,7 +437,7 @@ int hci_conn_del(struct hci_conn *conn)
> >
> >        del_timer(&conn->idle_timer);
> >
> > -       cancel_delayed_work_sync(&conn->disc_work);
> > +       cancel_delayed_work(&conn->disc_work);
> >
> >        del_timer(&conn->auto_accept_timer);
>
> With this you don't wait for pending work to finish but we may still
> sleep IIRC. It might be even better to use __cancel_delayed_work()
> instead of cancel_delayed_work().

I was checking this and I'm wrong and it should be fine to go with
cancel_delayed_work(). I'm going to revise also uses of
__cancel_delayed_work() because the timer to queue the work might be
running and queue the delayed work again. :-/ I'll send patches to fix
that.

Regards,

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