On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 04:30:02AM +0300, Laurent Pinchart wrote: > Hi Hans, > > On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 01:00:49PM +0200, Hans Verkuil wrote: > > On 17/08/2020 01:51, Laurent Pinchart wrote: > > > On Sun, Aug 16, 2020 at 08:54:18AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote: > > >> On 8/16/20 5:18 AM, Laurent Pinchart wrote: > > >>> CC'ing Hans Verkuil and Sakari Ailus for the discussion about handling > > >>> file operations and disconnect in V4L2. > > >>> > > >>> On Sat, Aug 15, 2020 at 05:33:15PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote: > > >>>> + linux-uvc-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > >>>> + linux-media@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > >>>> + laurent.pinchart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > >>>> > > >>>> and changed subject > > >>>> > > >>>> On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 10:07:39PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote: > > >>>>> On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 04:07:03PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote: > > >>>>>> Hi all, > > >>>>>> > > >>>>>> over time, there have been a number of reports of crashes in usb_ifnum_to_if(), > > >>>>>> called from usb_hcd_alloc_bandwidth, which is in turn called from usb_set_interface(). > > >>>>>> Examples are [1] [2] [3]. A typical backtrace is: > > >>>>>> > > >>>>>> <3>[ 3489.445468] intel_sst_acpi 808622A8:00: sst: Busy wait failed, cant send this msg > > >>>>>> <6>[ 3490.507273] usb 1-4: USB disconnect, device number 3 > > >>>>>> <1>[ 3490.516670] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000000 > > >>>>>> <6>[ 3490.516680] PGD 0 P4D 0 > > >>>>>> <4>[ 3490.516687] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI > > >>>>>> <4>[ 3490.516693] CPU: 0 PID: 5633 Comm: V4L2CaptureThre Not tainted 4.19.113-08536-g5d29ca36db06 #1 > > >>>>>> <4>[ 3490.516696] Hardware name: GOOGLE Edgar, BIOS Google_Edgar.7287.167.156 03/25/2019 > > >>>>>> <4>[ 3490.516706] RIP: 0010:usb_ifnum_to_if+0x29/0x40 > > >>>>>> <4>[ 3490.516710] Code: ee 0f 1f 44 00 00 55 48 89 e5 48 8b 8f f8 03 00 00 48 85 c9 74 27 44 0f b6 41 04 4d 85 c0 74 1d 31 ff 48 8b 84 f9 98 00 00 00 <48> 8b 10 0f b6 52 02 39 f2 74 0a 48 ff c7 4c 39 c7 72 e5 31 c0 5d > > >>>>>> <4>[ 3490.516714] RSP: 0018:ffffa46f42a47a80 EFLAGS: 00010246 > > >>>>>> <4>[ 3490.516718] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffff904a396c9000 > > >>>>>> <4>[ 3490.516721] RDX: ffff904a39641320 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: 0000000000000000 > > >>>>>> <4>[ 3490.516724] RBP: ffffa46f42a47a80 R08: 0000000000000002 R09: 0000000000000000 > > >>>>>> <4>[ 3490.516727] R10: 0000000000009975 R11: 0000000000000009 R12: 0000000000000000 > > >>>>>> <4>[ 3490.516731] R13: ffff904a396b3800 R14: ffff904a39e88000 R15: 0000000000000000 > > >>>>>> <4>[ 3490.516735] FS: 00007f396448e700(0000) GS:ffff904a3ba00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 > > >>>>>> <4>[ 3490.516738] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 > > >>>>>> <4>[ 3490.516742] CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 000000016cb46000 CR4: 00000000001006f0 > > >>>>>> <4>[ 3490.516745] Call Trace: > > >>>>>> <4>[ 3490.516756] usb_hcd_alloc_bandwidth+0x1ee/0x30f > > >>>>>> <4>[ 3490.516762] usb_set_interface+0x1a3/0x2b7 > > >>>>>> <4>[ 3490.516773] uvc_video_start_transfer+0x29b/0x4b8 [uvcvideo] > > >>>>>> <4>[ 3490.516781] uvc_video_start_streaming+0x91/0xdd [uvcvideo] > > >>>>>> <4>[ 3490.516787] uvc_start_streaming+0x28/0x5d [uvcvideo] > > >>>>>> <4>[ 3490.516795] vb2_start_streaming+0x61/0x143 [videobuf2_common] > > >>>>>> <4>[ 3490.516801] vb2_core_streamon+0xf7/0x10f [videobuf2_common] > > >>>>>> <4>[ 3490.516807] uvc_queue_streamon+0x2e/0x41 [uvcvideo] > > >>>>>> <4>[ 3490.516814] uvc_ioctl_streamon+0x42/0x5c [uvcvideo] > > >>>>>> <4>[ 3490.516820] __video_do_ioctl+0x33d/0x42a > > >>>>>> <4>[ 3490.516826] video_usercopy+0x34e/0x5ff > > >>>>>> <4>[ 3490.516831] ? video_ioctl2+0x16/0x16 > > >>>>>> <4>[ 3490.516837] v4l2_ioctl+0x46/0x53 > > >>>>>> <4>[ 3490.516843] do_vfs_ioctl+0x50a/0x76f > > >>>>>> <4>[ 3490.516848] ksys_ioctl+0x58/0x83 > > >>>>>> <4>[ 3490.516853] __x64_sys_ioctl+0x1a/0x1e > > >>>>>> <4>[ 3490.516858] do_syscall_64+0x54/0xde > > >>>>>> > > >>>>>> I have been able to reproduce the problem on a Chromebook by strategically placing > > >>>>>> msleep() calls into usb_set_interface() and usb_disable_device(). Ultimately, the > > >>>>>> problem boils down to lack of protection against device removal in usb_set_interface() > > >>>>>> [and/or possibly other callers of usb_ifnum_to_if()]. > > >>>>>> > > >>>>>> Sequence of events is roughly as follows: > > >>>>>> > > >>>>>> - usb_set_interface() is called and proceeds to some point, possibly to > > >>>>>> mutex_lock(hcd->bandwidth_mutex); > > >>>>>> - Device removal event is detected, and usb_disable_device() is called > > >>>>> > > >>>>> At this point all interface drivers get unbound (their disconnect > > >>>>> routines are called). > > >>>>> > > >>>>>> - usb_disable_device() starts removing actconfig data. It has removed > > >>>>>> and cleared dev->actconfig->interface[i], but not dev->actconfig > > >>>>>> - usb_set_interface() calls usb_hcd_alloc_bandwidth(), which calls > > >>>>>> usb_ifnum_to_if() > > >>>>>> - In usb_ifnum_to_if(), dev->actconfig is not NULL, but > > >>>>>> dev->actconfig->interface[i] is NULL > > >>>>>> - crash > > >>>>>> > > >>>>>> Question is what we can do about this. Checking if dev->state != USB_STATE_NOTATTACHED > > >>>>>> in usb_ifnum_to_if() might be a possible approach, but strictly speaking it would > > >>>>>> still be racy since there is still no lock against device removal. I have not tried > > >>>>>> calling usb_lock_device() in usb_set_interface() - would that possibly be an option ? > > >>>>> > > >>>>> As far as I know, protecting against these races is the responsibility > > >>>>> of the USB interface drivers. They must make sure that their disconnect > > >>>>> routines block until all outstanding calls to usb_set_interface return > > >>>>> (in fact, until all outstanding device accesses have finished). > > >>>>> > > >>>>> For instance, in the log extract you showed, it's obvious that the > > >>>>> uvc_start_streaming routine was running after the disconnect routine had > > >>>>> returned, which looks like a bug in itself: Once the disconnect routine > > >>>>> returns, the driver is not supposed to try to access the device at all > > >>>>> because some other driver may now be bound to it. > > >>>>> > > >>>>> We can't just call usb_lock_device from within usb_set_interface, > > >>>>> because usb_set_interface is often called with that lock already held. > > >>>>> > > >>>> I had a closer look into the uvcvideo driver and compared it to other usb > > >>>> drivers, including drivers in drivers/media/usb/ which connect to the video > > >>>> subsystem. > > >>>> > > >>>> The usbvideo driver lacks protection against calls to uvc_disconnect() while > > >>> > > >>> Are you confusing usbvideo and uvcvideo ? Both exist, and uvcvideo would > > >>> have been called usbvideo if the former hadn't already been in use. > > >> > > >> Yes, sorry :-(. I am not sure how s/uvc/usb/ happened. > > > > > > No worries. > > > > > >>>> calls into file operations are ongoing. This is pretty widespread, and not > > >>>> even limited to file operations (for example, there is a worker which is only > > >>>> canceled in uvc_delete, not in ucv_disconnect). The existing protection only > > >>>> ensures that no file operations are started after the call to ucv_disconnect, > > >>>> but that is insufficient. > > >>>> > > >>>> Other drivers do have that protection and make sure that no usb operations > > >>>> can happen after the disconnect call. > > >>>> > > >>>> The only remedy I can see is to rework the usbvideo driver and add the > > >>>> necessary protections. At first glance, it looks like this may be a > > >>>> substantial amount of work. I'd sign up for that, but before I start, > > >>>> I would like to get input from the usbvideo community. Is such an effort > > >>>> already going on ? If yes, how can I help ? If not, is the problem > > >>>> understood and accepted ? Are there any ideas on how to solve it ? > > >>> > > >>> This is something that has been discussed before, and needs to be solved > > >>> in the V4L2 framework itself, not in individual drivers. Not only would > > >>> this avoid rolling out the same code manually everywhere (in different > > >>> incorrect ways, as races are difficult to solve and implementations are > > >>> more often wrong than right), but it will also avoid similar issues for > > >>> non-USB devices. > > >> > > >> You mean code that ensures that no user-space v4l2 operation is in progress > > >> after video_device_unregister / v4l2_device_unregister return ? I agree, > > >> that would simplify the necessary changes on the uvc side. > > > > > > I was thinking about adding a new function to be called from the > > > disconnect handler to implement the wait on end of userspace access, but > > > video_device_unregister() seems an even better idea. > > > v4l2_device_unregister() is probably not very useful as v4l2_device > > > isn't exposed to userspace, only video_device is (and v4l2_subdev and > > > media_device, but that's a different story, although probably still an > > > issue for the latter in the UVC driver). > > > > Actually, all that is needed is to take the ioctl serialization lock in the disconnect > > function. > > It's not just ioctls though, the other file operations also need to be > handled (read, write, mmap). > > > See last paragraph in 1.4.1 here: > > > > https://hverkuil.home.xs4all.nl/spec/driver-api/v4l2-dev.html > > > > Since uvc uses its own lock, you need to take that one. > > Drivers that use their own lock do so to avoid serializing all ioctls. > This means that different ioctls may be covered by different locks > (possibly with part of some ioctls running without locking). I don't > think we can just dismiss the issue saying those drivers need to > implement the disconnection manually. It would be much better to > integrate handling of userspace access with video_device_unregister() > like proposed above, as that will work for all drivers in a transparent > way. It would also be fairly simple to implement in the V4L2 core. > I don't think it is going to be that simple. Here is a traceback I was able to collect after playing with msleep() in various locations. This is _after_ uvc_disconnect() has returned, but before usb_disable_device() set dev->actconfig to NULL. [ 9619.003726] config->interface[0] is NULL [ 9619.009114] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 2757 at drivers/usb/core/usb.c:285 usb_ifnum_to_if+0x81/0x85 ^^^ added log message and WARN() to prevent crash [ 9619.018647] Modules linked in: snd_seq_dummy snd_seq bridge stp llc veth tun nf_nat_tftp nf_conntrack_tftp nf_nat_ftp nf_conntrack_ftp xfrm6_mode_tunnel xfrm6_mode_transport xfrm4_mode_tunnel xfrm4_mode_transport esp6 ah6 ip6t_REJECT ip6t_ipv6header wacom rfcomm cmac algif_hash algif_skcipher af_alg uinput snd_soc_sst_bxt_da7219_max98357a snd_soc_hdac_hdmi snd_soc_dmic snd_soc_skl_ssp_clk snd_soc_skl snd_soc_skl_ipc snd_soc_sst_ipc snd_soc_sst_dsp snd_soc_acpi_intel_match snd_soc_acpi snd_hda_ext_core snd_intel_nhlt snd_hda_core snd_soc_max98357a acpi_als kfifo_buf industrialio snd_soc_da7219 ipt_MASQUERADE fuse snd_usb_audio snd_usbmidi_lib snd_hwdep snd_rawmidi snd_seq_device uvcvideo videobuf2_v4l2 videobuf2_common videobuf2_vmalloc videobuf2_memops iwlmvm iwl7000_mac80211 lzo_rle lzo_compress [ 9619.097545] zram r8152 mii iwlwifi cfg80211 btusb btrtl btintel btbcm bluetooth ecdh_generic joydev [ 9619.107762] CPU: 0 PID: 2757 Comm: inotify_reader Not tainted 4.19.139 #20 [ 9619.115443] Hardware name: Google Phaser/Phaser, BIOS Google_Phaser.10952.0.0 08/09/2018 [ 9619.124490] RIP: 0010:usb_ifnum_to_if+0x81/0x85 [ 9619.129542] Code: 02 44 39 f1 74 0a 48 ff c6 48 39 c6 72 df 31 db 48 89 d8 5b 41 5e 41 5f 5d c3 31 db 48 c7 c7 08 f8 cd a8 31 c0 e8 dd 1b 9f ff <0f> 0b eb e2 0f 1f 44 00 00 55 48 89 e5 44 8b 47 10 31 c0 45 85 c0 [ 9619.150530] RSP: 0018:ffff9ee20141fa58 EFLAGS: 00010246 [ 9619.156368] RAX: 438a0e5a525f1800 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000 [ 9619.164339] RDX: ffff975477a1de90 RSI: ffff975477a153d0 RDI: ffff975477a153d0 [ 9619.172309] RBP: ffff9ee20141fa70 R08: 000000000000002c R09: 002daec189138d78 [ 9619.180279] R10: 0000001000000000 R11: ffffffffa7da42e6 R12: ffff975459594800 [ 9619.188241] R13: 0000000000000001 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: ffff975465376400 [ 9619.196212] FS: 00007ddebffd6700(0000) GS:ffff975477a00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 9619.205251] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 9619.211670] CR2: 0000000012c83000 CR3: 00000001bbaf8000 CR4: 0000000000340ef0 [ 9619.219641] Call Trace: [ 9619.222378] usb_set_interface+0x3b/0x2f3 [ 9619.226862] uvc_video_stop_streaming+0x38/0x81 [uvcvideo] [ 9619.232983] uvc_stop_streaming+0x21/0x49 [uvcvideo] [ 9619.238531] __vb2_queue_cancel+0x33/0x249 [videobuf2_common] [ 9619.244951] vb2_core_queue_release+0x1c/0x45 [videobuf2_common] [ 9619.251662] uvc_queue_release+0x26/0x32 [uvcvideo] [ 9619.257114] uvc_v4l2_release+0x41/0xdd [uvcvideo] [ 9619.262469] v4l2_release+0x99/0xed [ 9619.266367] __fput+0xf0/0x1ea [ 9619.269778] task_work_run+0x7f/0xa7 [ 9619.273769] do_exit+0x1d1/0x6eb [ 9619.277375] do_group_exit+0x9d/0xac [ 9619.281367] get_signal+0x135/0x482 [ 9619.285262] do_signal+0x4a/0x63c [ 9619.288965] exit_to_usermode_loop+0x86/0xa5 [ 9619.293732] do_syscall_64+0x171/0x269 [ 9619.297919] ? __do_page_fault+0x272/0x474 [ 9619.302495] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9 [ 9619.308156] RIP: 0033:0x7ddec156dc26 [ 9619.312161] Code: Bad RIP value. [ 9619.315763] RSP: 002b:00007ddebffd5c10 EFLAGS: 00000293 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000017 [ 9619.324221] RAX: fffffffffffffdfe RBX: 000000000000000a RCX: 00007ddec156dc26 [ 9619.332194] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00007ddebffd5d28 RDI: 000000000000000a [ 9619.340166] RBP: 00007ddebffd5c50 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 [ 9619.348156] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000293 R12: 00007ddebffd5d28 [ 9619.356127] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000 usb_set_interface() should not be called anymore after uvc_disconnect(), or at east I think so (is that documented anywhere ?). Yet, that obviously happens, and it happens completely outside lock control. And this is just one instance where I was actually able to see the problem. I am quite sure that there are more. > > > We also have a v4l2_device_disconnect() function which is supposed to > > > handle hot-pluggable device disconnection, but it's fairly useless (I'd > > > even say harmful as it gives the illusion that hotplugging is correctly > > > handled, while in reality the media subsystem is plagged by hot-unplug > > > issues :-S). > > > > The v4l2_device_disconnect() is there to remove a v4l2_dev reference to > > the device that is about to be removed when the disconnect() exists. > > Otherwise v4l2_dev->dev would point to a missing device. > > > > However, I wonder if it is still needed: commit 236c5441d703 from 2011 added > > code to take a reference to v4l2_dev->dev in v4l2_device_register(). This > > should prevent the device from disappearing until v4l2_device_unregister() is > > called. I suspect that v4l2_device_disconnect() can be removed completely, and > > instead v4l2_device_unregister() just calls put_device(v4l2_dev->dev). > > > > I don't like v4l2_device_disconnect() either, so if this works, then that would > > be a nice simplification. > > Maybe I am missing something, but v4l2_device_unregister() already calls v4l2_device_disconnect(). With that, I don't see a difference to just calling v4l2_device_unregister(). Anyway, I'll keep digging. Thanks, Guenter
