Hi Sebastian, Thanks for your reply! On Wed, Feb 26, 2025 at 3:29 AM Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Based on the backtrace the problem is within the cdns3. The driver > acquires at the beginning of its threaded routine > spin_lock_irqsave(&priv_dev->lock, flags); > > and then before returning the URB it does > spin_unlock(&priv_dev->lock); > usb_gadget_giveback_request() > > so the lock is dropped but the interrupts are still disabled. This makes > me wonder why using threaded interrupts at all since interrupts are > disabled for the whole routine but then others do the same. I also wondered why threaded interrupts are being used, but I don't know the reason. > If you look at dwc3_thread_interrupt() they have local_bh_disable()/ > enable() before acquiring the lock and this is what I would suggest > doing here, too. The NCM is probably not the only one affected but > everything doing network that may since it may recourse into softirq. Thanks for the suggestion. I had also thought of doing this. I also noticed that the "cdnsp" driver has a similar fix in commit 58f2fcb3a845 ("usb: cdnsp: Fix deadlock issue during using NCM gadget"), which was also backported to stable branches. So I will prepare a v2 patch to do the same for "cdns3" driver. Regards Ralph