[PATCH v3 0/2] cxl/memdev: Fix poison debugfs vs unbind deadlock

[Guixin Liu <kanie@linux.alibaba.com>]

Writing a memdev poison debugfs file while cxl_mem is being unbound
deadlocks. Patch 2 fixes it by not waiting for the device lock in those
handlers. Patch 1 adds the trylock guard it uses.

Patch 2 does not build without patch 1, so the two need to travel
together.

Testing:

Reproduced on a QEMU CXL topology whose type3 devices advertise poison
inject support:

  while :; do echo 0 > /sys/kernel/debug/cxl/mem0/inject_poison; done &
  while :; do
      echo mem0 > /sys/bus/cxl/drivers/cxl_mem/unbind
      echo mem0 > /sys/bus/cxl/drivers/cxl_mem/bind
  done

Without the fix the unbind wedges within seconds. The three tasks
involved, from /proc/<pid>/stack:

  writer, state S, holds the debugfs reference and waits for the lock
    cxl_debugfs_poison_inject+0x25/0xa0 [cxl_mem]
    debugfs_attr_write+0x61/0xb0
    full_proxy_write+0xfc/0x1c0
    vfs_write+0x1d4/0xe60

  unbind, state D, holds the lock and waits for the reference to drain
    remove_one+0x27f/0x3d0
    debugfs_remove+0x44/0x60
    release_nodes+0xfa/0x2c0
    devres_release_all+0x113/0x1a0
    device_unbind_cleanup+0x76/0x260
    device_release_driver_internal+0x3eb/0x540
    unbind_store+0xde/0x100

  cxl_port workqueue, state D, blocked on the same lock
    device_release_driver_internal+0x96/0x540
    detach_memdev+0x79/0xb0 [cxl_core]
    process_one_work+0x6b0/0xfb0

The writer is in interruptible sleep and can be killed; the unbind
cannot, and because cxl_bus_wq is an ordered workqueue the wedged
detach_memdev() blocks every other CXL bus work item behind it.

With both patches applied, 46 unbind/bind cycles against the same writer
loop all completed, no task was left in D state, and the writer collected
10920 EBUSY returns from the contended trylock. Note that lockdep stays
quiet either way: one leg of the cycle is the debugfs active_users
completion rather than a lock it tracks.

v1 -> v2:
- add the device_trylock() guard and use ACQUIRE(device_try, ...) instead
  of open-coding device_trylock()/device_unlock(), keeping the style the
  Fixes: commit established (Shaikh Kamaluddin)
- cut the changelog down to the failing condition, the consequence and
  the fix; the call graph and the reproducer live here instead
- say how the issue was found and how it was tested

v2 -> v3:
- rebase onto v7.3-rc2 (master), per Dave's request to send the series
  against Linus's tags rather than cxl/next

v1:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cxl/20260826125248.4003792-1-kanie@linux.alibaba.com/

v2:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cxl/20260831124809.889829-1-kanie@linux.alibaba.com/

Guixin Liu (2):
  driver core: Add conditional guard support for device_trylock()
  cxl/memdev: Fix deadlock between poison debugfs and cxl_mem unbind

 drivers/cxl/mem.c      | 14 ++++++++++----
 include/linux/device.h |  1 +
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)


base-commit: 50d05c7c76c96b90462f24debacca971d2e86713
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