Re: [PATCH 02/20] usb: host: xhci: check DYING state earlier

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Hi,

Mathias Nyman <mathias.nyman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> On 17.04.2018 10:07, Felipe Balbi wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Mathias Nyman <mathias.nyman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>> On 16.04.2018 15:29, Felipe Balbi wrote:
>>>> Instead of allocating urb priv and, maybe, bail out due to xhci being
>>>> in DYING state, we can move the check earlier and avoid the memory
>>>> allocation altogether.
>>>
>>> This also moves checking for DYING outside the lock.
>>>
>>> Most cases set DYING with lock held, so if we first get the lock before
>>> checking DYING we have a better chance of not being in the process of dying.
>> 
>> pretty sure that's atomic, though.
>
> That's not what I'm after, your fix is cleaning up code in the case where DYING flag is
> set before xhci_urb_enqueue() is called. I'm worried about the case when setting DYING flag races
> with xhci_urb_enqueue(). i.e. xhci_urb_enqueue() is spinning on the lock, waiting, while
> some other part of the driver is desperately trying to access hw with lock held, failing,
> finally setting DYING flag, and then releasing lock.
>
> If the check is done before taking the lock then the URB might be queued on dying device,
> at a time when xhci_hc_died already started cancelling and giving back all queued URB

this can only happen if checking that bit isn't an atomic operation
which, AFAICT, it is. IOW, it would be the same if you were to change:

	if (a & b)
        	return -1;

to:

	if (test_bit(b, &a))
        	return -1;

right? Now, if this isn't an atomic operation, I'm happy to be educated.

>>> Small thing, but so is this cleanup, so not sure its worth the change
>> 
>> Look at the result. With this change we don't need to take a lock,
>> allocate memory, search for endpoint index, search for endpoint
>> state. All of those are needed for proper operation of the function, but
>> if the controller has already died, there's no point in going any
>> further.
>
> But we might miss the fact that host died, and go even further, adding URB to list,
> writing TRBs to ringbuffers etc.
>
> In code we save one line,
> goto: free_priv

We're saving a lot more than that, actually. All of the following ends
up being skipped. All of these are unnecessary work when xHC has already
died:

8<------------------------------------------------------------------------

slot_id = urb->dev->slot_id;
ep_index = xhci_get_endpoint_index(&urb->ep->desc);
ep_state = &xhci->devs[slot_id]->eps[ep_index].ep_state;

if (!HCD_HW_ACCESSIBLE(hcd)) {
        if (!in_interrupt())
                xhci_dbg(xhci, "urb submitted during PCI suspend\n");
        return -ESHUTDOWN;
}

if (usb_endpoint_xfer_isoc(&urb->ep->desc))
        num_tds = urb->number_of_packets;
else if (usb_endpoint_is_bulk_out(&urb->ep->desc) &&
    urb->transfer_buffer_length > 0 &&
    urb->transfer_flags & URB_ZERO_PACKET &&
    !(urb->transfer_buffer_length % usb_endpoint_maxp(&urb->ep->desc)))
        num_tds = 2;
else
        num_tds = 1;

urb_priv = kzalloc(sizeof(struct urb_priv) +
                   num_tds * sizeof(struct xhci_td), mem_flags);
if (!urb_priv)
        return -ENOMEM;

urb_priv->num_tds = num_tds;
urb_priv->num_tds_done = 0;
urb->hcpriv = urb_priv;

trace_xhci_urb_enqueue(urb);

if (usb_endpoint_xfer_control(&urb->ep->desc)) {
        /* Check to see if the max packet size for the default control
         * endpoint changed during FS device enumeration
         */
        if (urb->dev->speed == USB_SPEED_FULL) {
                ret = xhci_check_maxpacket(xhci, slot_id,
                                ep_index, urb);
                if (ret < 0) {
                        xhci_urb_free_priv(urb_priv);
                        urb->hcpriv = NULL;
                        return ret;
                }
        }
}

spin_lock_irqsave(&xhci->lock, flags);

8<------------------------------------------------------------------------

-- 
balbi

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