This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
intel_th: Fix a deadlock in modprobing
to my char-misc git tree which can be found at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc.git
in the char-misc-testing branch.
The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree
(usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.)
The patch will be merged to the char-misc-next branch sometime soon,
after it passes testing, and the merge window is open.
If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.
>From a36aa80f3cb2540fb1dbad6240852de4365a2e82 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2016 11:51:44 +0300
Subject: intel_th: Fix a deadlock in modprobing
Driver initialization tries to request a hub (GTH) driver module from
its probe callback, resulting in a deadlock.
This patch solves the problem by adding a deferred work for requesting
the hub module.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 4.4.x-
---
drivers/hwtracing/intel_th/core.c | 35 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
drivers/hwtracing/intel_th/intel_th.h | 3 +++
2 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/intel_th/core.c b/drivers/hwtracing/intel_th/core.c
index 1be543e8e42f..0b112ae689bf 100644
--- a/drivers/hwtracing/intel_th/core.c
+++ b/drivers/hwtracing/intel_th/core.c
@@ -465,6 +465,38 @@ static struct intel_th_subdevice {
},
};
+#ifdef CONFIG_MODULES
+static void __intel_th_request_hub_module(struct work_struct *work)
+{
+ struct intel_th *th = container_of(work, struct intel_th,
+ request_module_work);
+
+ request_module("intel_th_%s", th->hub->name);
+}
+
+static int intel_th_request_hub_module(struct intel_th *th)
+{
+ INIT_WORK(&th->request_module_work, __intel_th_request_hub_module);
+ schedule_work(&th->request_module_work);
+
+ return 0;
+}
+
+static void intel_th_request_hub_module_flush(struct intel_th *th)
+{
+ flush_work(&th->request_module_work);
+}
+#else
+static inline int intel_th_request_hub_module(struct intel_th *th)
+{
+ return -EINVAL;
+}
+
+static inline void intel_th_request_hub_module_flush(struct intel_th *th)
+{
+}
+#endif /* CONFIG_MODULES */
+
static int intel_th_populate(struct intel_th *th, struct resource *devres,
unsigned int ndevres, int irq)
{
@@ -535,7 +567,7 @@ static int intel_th_populate(struct intel_th *th, struct resource *devres,
/* need switch driver to be loaded to enumerate the rest */
if (subdev->type == INTEL_TH_SWITCH && !req) {
th->hub = thdev;
- err = request_module("intel_th_%s", subdev->name);
+ err = intel_th_request_hub_module(th);
if (!err)
req++;
}
@@ -652,6 +684,7 @@ void intel_th_free(struct intel_th *th)
{
int i;
+ intel_th_request_hub_module_flush(th);
for (i = 0; i < TH_SUBDEVICE_MAX; i++)
if (th->thdev[i] != th->hub)
intel_th_device_remove(th->thdev[i]);
diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/intel_th/intel_th.h b/drivers/hwtracing/intel_th/intel_th.h
index 0df22e30673d..04828482600b 100644
--- a/drivers/hwtracing/intel_th/intel_th.h
+++ b/drivers/hwtracing/intel_th/intel_th.h
@@ -205,6 +205,9 @@ struct intel_th {
int id;
int major;
+#ifdef CONFIG_MODULES
+ struct work_struct request_module_work;
+#endif /* CONFIG_MODULES */
#ifdef CONFIG_INTEL_TH_DEBUG
struct dentry *dbg;
#endif
--
2.9.0
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