This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled usb: misc: onboard_hub: Move 'attach' work to the driver to the 6.1-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: usb-misc-onboard_hub-move-attach-work-to-the-driver.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From cde37881e2e14590675d0acdfbad408300d9ca95 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2023 17:32:53 +0000 Subject: usb: misc: onboard_hub: Move 'attach' work to the driver From: Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@xxxxxxxxxxxx> commit cde37881e2e14590675d0acdfbad408300d9ca95 upstream. Currently each onboard_hub platform device owns an 'attach' work, which is scheduled when the device probes. With this deadlocks have been reported on a Raspberry Pi 3 B+ [1], which has nested onboard hubs. The flow of the deadlock is something like this (with the onboard_hub driver built as a module) [2]: - USB root hub is instantiated - core hub driver calls onboard_hub_create_pdevs(), which creates the 'raw' platform device for the 1st level hub - 1st level hub is probed by the core hub driver - core hub driver calls onboard_hub_create_pdevs(), which creates the 'raw' platform device for the 2nd level hub - onboard_hub platform driver is registered - platform device for 1st level hub is probed - schedules 'attach' work - platform device for 2nd level hub is probed - schedules 'attach' work - onboard_hub USB driver is registered - device (and parent) lock of hub is held while the device is re-probed with the onboard_hub driver - 'attach' work (running in another thread) calls driver_attach(), which blocks on one of the hub device locks - onboard_hub_destroy_pdevs() is called by the core hub driver when one of the hubs is detached - destroying the pdevs invokes onboard_hub_remove(), which waits for the 'attach' work to complete - waits forever, since the 'attach' work can't acquire the device lock Use a single work struct for the driver instead of having a work struct per onboard hub platform driver instance. With that it isn't necessary to cancel the work in onboard_hub_remove(), which fixes the deadlock. The work is only cancelled when the driver is unloaded. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/d04bcc45-3471-4417-b30b-5cf9880d785d@xxxxxxxx/ [2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/Y6OrGbqaMy2iVDWB@xxxxxxxxxx/ Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fixes: 8bc063641ceb ("usb: misc: Add onboard_usb_hub driver") Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/d04bcc45-3471-4417-b30b-5cf9880d785d@xxxxxxxx/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/Y6OrGbqaMy2iVDWB@xxxxxxxxxx/ Reported-by: Stefan Wahren <stefan.wahren@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230110172954.v2.2.I16b51f32db0c32f8a8532900bfe1c70c8572881a@changeid Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/usb/misc/onboard_usb_hub.c | 12 ++++++------ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/usb/misc/onboard_usb_hub.c +++ b/drivers/usb/misc/onboard_usb_hub.c @@ -27,7 +27,10 @@ #include "onboard_usb_hub.h" +static void onboard_hub_attach_usb_driver(struct work_struct *work); + static struct usb_device_driver onboard_hub_usbdev_driver; +static DECLARE_WORK(attach_usb_driver_work, onboard_hub_attach_usb_driver); /************************** Platform driver **************************/ @@ -45,7 +48,6 @@ struct onboard_hub { bool is_powered_on; bool going_away; struct list_head udev_list; - struct work_struct attach_usb_driver_work; struct mutex lock; }; @@ -271,8 +273,7 @@ static int onboard_hub_probe(struct plat * This needs to be done deferred to avoid self-deadlocks on systems * with nested onboard hubs. */ - INIT_WORK(&hub->attach_usb_driver_work, onboard_hub_attach_usb_driver); - schedule_work(&hub->attach_usb_driver_work); + schedule_work(&attach_usb_driver_work); return 0; } @@ -285,9 +286,6 @@ static int onboard_hub_remove(struct pla hub->going_away = true; - if (&hub->attach_usb_driver_work != current_work()) - cancel_work_sync(&hub->attach_usb_driver_work); - mutex_lock(&hub->lock); /* unbind the USB devices to avoid dangling references to this device */ @@ -447,6 +445,8 @@ static void __exit onboard_hub_exit(void { usb_deregister_device_driver(&onboard_hub_usbdev_driver); platform_driver_unregister(&onboard_hub_driver); + + cancel_work_sync(&attach_usb_driver_work); } module_exit(onboard_hub_exit); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mka@xxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-6.1/usb-misc-onboard_hub-invert-driver-registration-order.patch queue-6.1/usb-misc-onboard_hub-move-attach-work-to-the-driver.patch