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From: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.com>
To: Octavian Purdila <octavian.purdila@intel.com>,
	Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org
Subject: possible deadlock in 3b6054da68f9b0d5ed6a7ed0f42a79e61904352c ("usb hub: send clear_tt_buffer_complete events when canceling TT clear work")
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2019 16:12:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1560867168.3184.8.camel@suse.com> (raw)

Hi,

looking at this code,  which fixed a deadlock,it looks to me
like it has introduced another deadlock.

[assume a storage device on a hub being suspended]

hub_suspend() -> hub_quiesce() -> flush_work(&hub->tt.clear_work) ->

/* note that tt.clear_work is not on its own queue, it uses
simple schedule_work(). Hence the work lands on system_wq,
shared with arbitrary works */

kmalloc(... , GFP_KERNEL) -> usb_storage or uas ->
usb_autopm_get_interface() -> DEADLOCK

I think you need to use a dedicated workqueue for the hub driver.

	Regards
		Oliver



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