Re: [PATCH 1/2] usb: gadget: r8a66597: Fix two possible sleep-in-atomic-context bugs in init_controller()

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



Felipe Balbi <balbi@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Robert Jarzmik <robert.jarzmik@xxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>
>>> The driver may sleep with holding a spinlock.
>>> The function call paths (from bottom to top) in Linux-4.16.7 are:
>>>
>>> [FUNC] msleep
>>> drivers/usb/gadget/udc/r8a66597-udc.c, 839: 
>>> 		msleep in init_controller
>>> drivers/usb/gadget/udc/r8a66597-udc.c, 96: 
>>> 		init_controller in r8a66597_usb_disconnect
>>> drivers/usb/gadget/udc/r8a66597-udc.c, 93: 
>>> 		spin_lock in r8a66597_usb_disconnect
>>
>> That should not happen...
>>
>> If think the issue you have is that your usb_connect() and usb_disconnect() are
>> called from interrupt context. I think the proper fix, as what is done in most
>> udc phys, is to schedule a workqueue, see drivers/usb/phy/phy-gpio-vbus-usb.c,
>> gpio_vbus_data.vbus.
>
> argh, no. No workqueues needed here. Sorry
Technically why ?

And as bonus question, why is it better to have mdelay() calls in the driver ?

Cheers.

-- 
Robert
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html



[Index of Archives]     [Linux Media]     [Linux Input]     [Linux Audio Users]     [Yosemite News]     [Linux Kernel]     [Linux SCSI]     [Old Linux USB Devel Archive]

  Powered by Linux