Felipe:
On Thu, 29 Jun 2017, kernel test robot wrote:
> FYI, we noticed the following commit:
>
> commit: f16443a034c7aa359ddf6f0f9bc40d01ca31faea ("USB: gadgetfs, dummy-hcd, net2280: fix locking for callbacks")
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git master
>
> in testcase: trinity
> with following parameters:
>
> runtime: 300s
>
> test-description: Trinity is a linux system call fuzz tester.
> test-url: http://codemonkey.org.uk/projects/trinity/
>
>
> on test machine: qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -m 420M
>
> caused below changes (please refer to attached dmesg/kmsg for entire log/backtrace):
...
I won't include the entire report. The gist is that we have a problem
with lock ordering. The report is about dummy-hcd, but this could
affect any UDC driver.
1. When a SETUP request arrives, composite_setup() acquires
cdev->lock before calling the function driver's callback.
When that callback submits a reply, it causes the UDC driver
to acquire its private lock.
2. When a bus reset occurs, the UDC's interrupt handler acquires
its private lock before calling usb_gadget_udc_reset(), which
calls composite_disconnect(), which acquires cdev->lock.
So there's an ABBA ordering problem between the UDC's private lock and
the composite core's cdev->lock.
Use of the UDC's private lock in 1 seems unavoidable. Perhaps it can
be avoided in 2, but wouldn't that leave us open to a race between
reset handling and gadget driver unregistration? In fact, that was the
very reason for creating the commit cited at the top of this bug
report.
I don't know enough of the details of the composite core to say whether
its lock usage can be reduced.
Do you have any suggestions?
Alan Stern
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