Re: [PATCH] usb: cdnsp: Fix deadlock issue during using NCM gadget

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On 23-11-08 10:31:25, Pawel Laszczak wrote:
> The interrupt service routine registered for the gadget is a primary
> handler which mask the interrupt source and a threaded handler which
> handles the source of the interrupt. Since the threaded handler is
> voluntary threaded, the IRQ-core does not disable bottom halves before
> invoke the handler like it does for the forced-threaded handler.
> 
> Due to changes in networking it became visible that a network gadget's
> completions handler may schedule a softirq which remains unprocessed.
> The gadget's completion handler is usually invoked either in hard-IRQ or
> soft-IRQ context. In this context it is enough to just raise the softirq
> because the softirq itself will be handled once that context is left.
> In the case of the voluntary threaded handler, there is nothing that
> will process pending softirqs. Which means it remain queued until
> another random interrupt (on this CPU) fires and handles it on its exit
> path or another thread locks and unlocks a lock with the bh suffix.
> Worst case is that the CPU goes idle and the NOHZ complains about
> unhandled softirqs.

Would you have a diagram to explain how things happen, and when the
network softirq is scheduled in this case?

Peter
> 
> Disable bottom halves before acquiring the lock (and disabling
> interrupts) and enable them after dropping the lock. This ensures that
> any pending softirqs will handled right away.
> 
> cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Fixes: 3d82904559f4 ("usb: cdnsp: cdns3 Add main part of Cadence USBSSP DRD Driver")
> Signed-off-by: Pawel Laszczak <pawell@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/usb/cdns3/cdnsp-ring.c | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/usb/cdns3/cdnsp-ring.c b/drivers/usb/cdns3/cdnsp-ring.c
> index 07f6068342d4..275a6a2fa671 100644
> --- a/drivers/usb/cdns3/cdnsp-ring.c
> +++ b/drivers/usb/cdns3/cdnsp-ring.c
> @@ -1529,6 +1529,7 @@ irqreturn_t cdnsp_thread_irq_handler(int irq, void *data)
>  	unsigned long flags;
>  	int counter = 0;
>  
> +	local_bh_disable();
>  	spin_lock_irqsave(&pdev->lock, flags);
>  
>  	if (pdev->cdnsp_state & (CDNSP_STATE_HALTED | CDNSP_STATE_DYING)) {
> @@ -1541,6 +1542,7 @@ irqreturn_t cdnsp_thread_irq_handler(int irq, void *data)
>  			cdnsp_died(pdev);
>  
>  		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pdev->lock, flags);
> +		local_bh_enable();
>  		return IRQ_HANDLED;
>  	}
>  
> @@ -1557,6 +1559,7 @@ irqreturn_t cdnsp_thread_irq_handler(int irq, void *data)
>  	cdnsp_update_erst_dequeue(pdev, event_ring_deq, 1);
>  
>  	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pdev->lock, flags);
> +	local_bh_enable();
>  
>  	return IRQ_HANDLED;
>  }
> -- 
> 2.37.2
> 

-- 

Thanks,
Peter Chen




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