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* [dm-devel] [PATCH] qat: fix deadlock in backlog processing
@ 2023-09-21 20:53 Mikulas Patocka
  2023-09-22 15:13 ` Giovanni Cabiddu
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Mikulas Patocka @ 2023-09-21 20:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Giovanni Cabiddu, Herbert Xu, David S. Miller, Michael Hrivnak,
	Eric Garver
  Cc: dm-devel, qat-linux, linux-crypto

Hi

I was evaluating whether it is feasible to use QAT with dm-crypt (the 
answer is that it is not - QAT is slower than AES-NI for this type of 
workload; QAT starts to be benefical for encryption requests longer than 
64k). And I got some deadlocks.

The reason for the deadlocks is this: suppose that one of the "if"
conditions in "qat_alg_send_message_maybacklog" is true and we jump to the
"enqueue" label. At this point, an interrupt comes in and clears all
pending messages. Now, the interrupt returns, we grab backlog->lock, add
the message to the backlog, drop backlog->lock - and there is no one to
remove the backlogged message out of the list and submit it.

I fixed it with this patch - with this patch, the test passes and there
are no longer any deadlocks. I didn't want to add a spinlock to the hot
path, so I take it only if some of the condition suggests that queuing may
be required.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org

---
 drivers/crypto/intel/qat/qat_common/qat_algs_send.c |   31 ++++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6/drivers/crypto/intel/qat/qat_common/qat_algs_send.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/crypto/intel/qat/qat_common/qat_algs_send.c
+++ linux-2.6/drivers/crypto/intel/qat/qat_common/qat_algs_send.c
@@ -40,16 +40,6 @@ void qat_alg_send_backlog(struct qat_ins
 	spin_unlock_bh(&backlog->lock);
 }
 
-static void qat_alg_backlog_req(struct qat_alg_req *req,
-				struct qat_instance_backlog *backlog)
-{
-	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&req->list);
-
-	spin_lock_bh(&backlog->lock);
-	list_add_tail(&req->list, &backlog->list);
-	spin_unlock_bh(&backlog->lock);
-}
-
 static int qat_alg_send_message_maybacklog(struct qat_alg_req *req)
 {
 	struct qat_instance_backlog *backlog = req->backlog;
@@ -71,8 +61,27 @@ static int qat_alg_send_message_maybackl
 	return -EINPROGRESS;
 
 enqueue:
-	qat_alg_backlog_req(req, backlog);
+	spin_lock_bh(&backlog->lock);
+
+	/* If any request is already backlogged, then add to backlog list */
+	if (!list_empty(&backlog->list))
+		goto enqueue2;
 
+	/* If ring is nearly full, then add to backlog list */
+	if (adf_ring_nearly_full(tx_ring))
+		goto enqueue2;
+
+	/* If adding request to HW ring fails, then add to backlog list */
+	if (adf_send_message(tx_ring, fw_req))
+		goto enqueue2;
+
+	spin_unlock_bh(&backlog->lock);
+	return -EINPROGRESS;
+
+enqueue2:
+	list_add_tail(&req->list, &backlog->list);
+
+	spin_unlock_bh(&backlog->lock);
 	return -EBUSY;
 }
 
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2023-09-22 15:13 ` Giovanni Cabiddu
2023-09-22 16:34   ` [dm-devel] [PATCH v2] " Mikulas Patocka
2023-09-29 21:04     ` Giovanni Cabiddu
2023-10-02  9:15       ` Mikulas Patocka
2023-10-20 11:34         ` Giovanni Cabiddu

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