From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:38462 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751030AbdCROL7 (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Mar 2017 10:11:59 -0400 Subject: Patch "net: phy: Avoid deadlock during phy_error()" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree To: f.fainelli@gmail.com, davem@davemloft.net, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk Cc: , From: Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2017 22:07:14 +0800 Message-ID: <148984603455235@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled net: phy: Avoid deadlock during phy_error() to the 4.9-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: net-phy-avoid-deadlock-during-phy_error.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let know about it. >>From foo@baz Sat Mar 18 22:03:25 CST 2017 From: Florian Fainelli Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2017 15:31:52 -0800 Subject: net: phy: Avoid deadlock during phy_error() From: Florian Fainelli [ Upstream commit eab127717a6af54401ba534790c793ec143cd1fc ] phy_error() is called in the PHY state machine workqueue context, and calls phy_trigger_machine() which does a cancel_delayed_work_sync() of the workqueue we execute from, causing a deadlock situation. Augment phy_trigger_machine() machine with a sync boolean indicating whether we should use cancel_*_sync() or just cancel_*_work(). Fixes: 3c293f4e08b5 ("net: phy: Trigger state machine on state change and not polling.") Reported-by: Russell King Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/net/phy/phy.c | 14 +++++++++----- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/net/phy/phy.c +++ b/drivers/net/phy/phy.c @@ -611,14 +611,18 @@ void phy_start_machine(struct phy_device * phy_trigger_machine - trigger the state machine to run * * @phydev: the phy_device struct + * @sync: indicate whether we should wait for the workqueue cancelation * * Description: There has been a change in state which requires that the * state machine runs. */ -static void phy_trigger_machine(struct phy_device *phydev) +static void phy_trigger_machine(struct phy_device *phydev, bool sync) { - cancel_delayed_work_sync(&phydev->state_queue); + if (sync) + cancel_delayed_work_sync(&phydev->state_queue); + else + cancel_delayed_work(&phydev->state_queue); queue_delayed_work(system_power_efficient_wq, &phydev->state_queue, 0); } @@ -655,7 +659,7 @@ static void phy_error(struct phy_device phydev->state = PHY_HALTED; mutex_unlock(&phydev->lock); - phy_trigger_machine(phydev); + phy_trigger_machine(phydev, false); } /** @@ -817,7 +821,7 @@ void phy_change(struct work_struct *work } /* reschedule state queue work to run as soon as possible */ - phy_trigger_machine(phydev); + phy_trigger_machine(phydev, true); return; ignore: @@ -907,7 +911,7 @@ void phy_start(struct phy_device *phydev if (do_resume) phy_resume(phydev); - phy_trigger_machine(phydev); + phy_trigger_machine(phydev, true); } EXPORT_SYMBOL(phy_start); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from f.fainelli@gmail.com are queue-4.9/net-phy-avoid-deadlock-during-phy_error.patch