Re: [PATCH v4 2/4] bus: mhi: host: Drop chan lock before queuing buffers

[Qiang Yu <quic_qianyu@quicinc.com>]

On 12/6/2023 9:48 PM, Manivannan Sadhasivam wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 06, 2023 at 10:25:12AM +0800, Qiang Yu wrote:
>> On 11/30/2023 1:31 PM, Manivannan Sadhasivam wrote:
>>> On Wed, Nov 29, 2023 at 11:29:07AM +0800, Qiang Yu wrote:
>>>> On 11/28/2023 9:32 PM, Manivannan Sadhasivam wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, Nov 27, 2023 at 03:13:55PM +0800, Qiang Yu wrote:
>>>>>> On 11/24/2023 6:04 PM, Manivannan Sadhasivam wrote:
>>>>>>> On Tue, Nov 14, 2023 at 01:27:39PM +0800, Qiang Yu wrote:
>>>>>>>> Ensure read and write locks for the channel are not taken in succession by
>>>>>>>> dropping the read lock from parse_xfer_event() such that a callback given
>>>>>>>> to client can potentially queue buffers and acquire the write lock in that
>>>>>>>> process. Any queueing of buffers should be done without channel read lock
>>>>>>>> acquired as it can result in multiple locks and a soft lockup.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Is this patch trying to fix an existing issue in client drivers or a potential
>>>>>>> issue in the future drivers?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Even if you take care of disabled channels, "mhi_event->lock" acquired during
>>>>>>> mhi_mark_stale_events() can cause deadlock, since event lock is already held by
>>>>>>> mhi_ev_task().
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'd prefer not to open the window unless this patch is fixing a real issue.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> - Mani
>>>>>> In [PATCH v4 1/4] bus: mhi: host: Add spinlock to protect WP access when
>>>>>> queueing
>>>>>> TREs,  we add
>>>>>> write_lock_bh(&mhi_chan->lock)/write_unlock_bh(&mhi_chan->lock)
>>>>>> in mhi_gen_tre, which may be invoked as part of mhi_queue in client xfer
>>>>>> callback,
>>>>>> so we have to use read_unlock_bh(&mhi_chan->lock) here to avoid acquiring
>>>>>> mhi_chan->lock
>>>>>> twice.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Sorry for confusing you. Do you think we need to sqush this two patch into
>>>>>> one?
>>>>> Well, if patch 1 is introducing a potential deadlock, then we should fix patch
>>>>> 1 itself and not introduce a follow up patch.
>>>>>
>>>>> But there is one more issue that I pointed out in my previous reply.
>>>> Sorry, I can not understand why "mhi_event->lock" acquired during
>>>> mhi_mark_stale_events() can cause deadlock. In mhi_ev_task(), we will
>>>> not invoke mhi_mark_stale_events(). Can you provide some interpretation?
>>> Going by your theory that if a channel gets disabled while processing the event,
>>> the process trying to disable the channel will try to acquire "mhi_event->lock"
>>> which is already held by the process processing the event.
>>>
>>> - Mani
>> OK, I get you. Thank you for kind explanation. Hopefully I didn't intrude
>> too much.
> Not at all. Btw, did you actually encounter any issue that this patch is trying
> to fix? Or just fixing based on code inspection.
>
> - Mani
Yes, we actually meet the race issue in downstream driver. But I can not 
find more details about the issue.
>>>>> Also, I'm planning to cleanup the locking mess within MHI in the coming days.
>>>>> Perhaps we can revisit this series at that point of time. Will that be OK for
>>>>> you?
>>>> Sure, that will be great.
>>>>> - Mani
>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Qiang Yu <quic_qianyu@quicinc.com>
>>>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>>>      drivers/bus/mhi/host/main.c | 4 ++++
>>>>>>>>      1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> diff --git a/drivers/bus/mhi/host/main.c b/drivers/bus/mhi/host/main.c
>>>>>>>> index 6c6d253..c4215b0 100644
>>>>>>>> --- a/drivers/bus/mhi/host/main.c
>>>>>>>> +++ b/drivers/bus/mhi/host/main.c
>>>>>>>> @@ -642,6 +642,8 @@ static int parse_xfer_event(struct mhi_controller *mhi_cntrl,
>>>>>>>>      			mhi_del_ring_element(mhi_cntrl, tre_ring);
>>>>>>>>      			local_rp = tre_ring->rp;
>>>>>>>> +			read_unlock_bh(&mhi_chan->lock);
>>>>>>>> +
>>>>>>>>      			/* notify client */
>>>>>>>>      			mhi_chan->xfer_cb(mhi_chan->mhi_dev, &result);
>>>>>>>> @@ -667,6 +669,8 @@ static int parse_xfer_event(struct mhi_controller *mhi_cntrl,
>>>>>>>>      					kfree(buf_info->cb_buf);
>>>>>>>>      				}
>>>>>>>>      			}
>>>>>>>> +
>>>>>>>> +			read_lock_bh(&mhi_chan->lock);
>>>>>>>>      		}
>>>>>>>>      		break;
>>>>>>>>      	} /* CC_EOT */
>>>>>>>> -- 
>>>>>>>> 2.7.4
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>