* [PATCH 1/2] usb: core: hcd: Disable IRQs when taking bh->lock
2026-11-13 4:02 [PATCH 0/2] usb: Fix giveback_urb_bh deadlock on URB dequeue Chien Kun Niu
@ 2026-11-13 4:02 ` Chien Kun Niu
2026-11-13 4:27 ` sashiko-bot
2026-11-13 4:02 ` [PATCH 2/2] xhci: Give back URB under lock in xhci_urb_dequeue() Chien Kun Niu
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From: Chien Kun Niu @ 2026-11-13 4:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman, Mathias Nyman
Cc: Alan Stern, linux-usb, linux-kernel, Chien Kun Niu
usb_hcd_giveback_urb() can be called with local interrupts enabled,
but it acquires bh->lock with plain spin_lock(). bh->lock is also
taken in hardirq context by HCD interrupt handlers and in BH context
by usb_giveback_urb_bh().
If an interrupt arrives on the same CPU while usb_hcd_giveback_urb()
holds bh->lock with IRQs enabled, it can deadlock on bh->lock in
usb_hcd_irq(), or in usb_giveback_urb_bh() on IRQ exit if the BH work
was already queued. We hit the latter during reboot when usbnet
unlinked RX URBs on a halted xHCI controller:
Call trace:
queued_spin_lock_slowpath
_raw_spin_lock_irq
usb_giveback_urb_bh
process_scheduled_works
bh_worker
workqueue_softirq_action
__do_softirq
irq_exit_rcu
el1_interrupt
_raw_spin_lock
usb_hcd_giveback_urb
xhci_urb_dequeue
unlink1
usb_hcd_unlink_urb
usb_unlink_urb
unlink_urbs [usbnet]
Use spin_lock_irqsave() and spin_unlock_irqrestore() when taking
bh->lock in usb_hcd_giveback_urb() to prevent same-CPU hardirq and
softirq re-entrancy.
Fixes: 94dfd7edfd5c ("USB: HCD: support giveback of URB in tasklet context")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Chien Kun Niu <rickyniu@google.com>
---
drivers/usb/core/hcd.c | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/usb/core/hcd.c b/drivers/usb/core/hcd.c
index 8e8a5f59b..7bb25e7c4 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/core/hcd.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/core/hcd.c
@@ -1731,6 +1731,7 @@ static void usb_giveback_urb_bh(struct work_struct *work)
void usb_hcd_giveback_urb(struct usb_hcd *hcd, struct urb *urb, int status)
{
struct giveback_urb_bh *bh;
+ unsigned long flags;
bool running;
/* pass status to BH via unlinked */
@@ -1747,10 +1748,10 @@ void usb_hcd_giveback_urb(struct usb_hcd *hcd, struct urb *urb, int status)
else
bh = &hcd->low_prio_bh;
- spin_lock(&bh->lock);
+ spin_lock_irqsave(&bh->lock, flags);
list_add_tail(&urb->urb_list, &bh->head);
running = bh->running;
- spin_unlock(&bh->lock);
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&bh->lock, flags);
if (running)
;
--
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* [PATCH 2/2] xhci: Give back URB under lock in xhci_urb_dequeue()
2026-11-13 4:02 [PATCH 0/2] usb: Fix giveback_urb_bh deadlock on URB dequeue Chien Kun Niu
2026-11-13 4:02 ` [PATCH 1/2] usb: core: hcd: Disable IRQs when taking bh->lock Chien Kun Niu
@ 2026-11-13 4:02 ` Chien Kun Niu
2026-11-13 4:27 ` sashiko-bot
1 sibling, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Chien Kun Niu @ 2026-11-13 4:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman, Mathias Nyman
Cc: Alan Stern, linux-usb, linux-kernel, Chien Kun Niu
Before commit 36dc01657b49 ("usb: host: xhci: Support running urb
giveback in tasklet context") set HCD_BH, usb_hcd_giveback_urb() ran
urb->complete() synchronously, so xHCI had to drop xhci->lock before
giving back an URB. That commit updated xhci_giveback_urb_in_irq() to
keep xhci->lock held across usb_hcd_giveback_urb(), covering normal
completions, xhci_process_cancelled_tds(), and xhci_hc_died(), while
the open-coded err_giveback path in xhci_urb_dequeue() was missed.
Dropping xhci->lock between usb_hcd_unlink_urb_from_ep() and
usb_hcd_giveback_urb() breaks per-endpoint giveback serialization: a
concurrent xhci_urb_dequeue() or xhci_hc_died() can acquire xhci->lock
and queue a later URB onto bh->head ahead of this one, completing URBs
out of order. When spinlocks disable interrupts, unlocking first also
causes a redundant IRQ restore/save bounce into bh->lock, and without
an IRQ-safe bh->lock it exposed task-context unlinks to a same-CPU
deadlock.
Move usb_hcd_giveback_urb() before spin_unlock_irqrestore(&xhci->lock,
flags) in err_giveback to match xhci_giveback_urb_in_irq().
Fixes: 36dc01657b49 ("usb: host: xhci: Support running urb giveback in tasklet context")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Chien Kun Niu <rickyniu@google.com>
---
drivers/usb/host/xhci.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/usb/host/xhci.c b/drivers/usb/host/xhci.c
index 30ac1bc45..3bca3a91f 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/host/xhci.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/host/xhci.c
@@ -1879,8 +1879,8 @@ static int xhci_urb_dequeue(struct usb_hcd *hcd, struct urb *urb, int status)
if (urb_priv)
xhci_urb_free_priv(urb_priv);
usb_hcd_unlink_urb_from_ep(hcd, urb);
- spin_unlock_irqrestore(&xhci->lock, flags);
usb_hcd_giveback_urb(hcd, urb, -ESHUTDOWN);
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&xhci->lock, flags);
return ret;
}
--
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* [PATCH 0/2] usb: Fix giveback_urb_bh deadlock on URB dequeue
@ 2026-11-13 4:02 Chien Kun Niu
2026-11-13 4:02 ` [PATCH 1/2] usb: core: hcd: Disable IRQs when taking bh->lock Chien Kun Niu
2026-11-13 4:02 ` [PATCH 2/2] xhci: Give back URB under lock in xhci_urb_dequeue() Chien Kun Niu
0 siblings, 2 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Chien Kun Niu @ 2026-11-13 4:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman, Mathias Nyman
Cc: Alan Stern, linux-usb, linux-kernel, Chien Kun Niu
We hit a CPU hardlockup during reboot while usbnet was unlinking
queued RX URBs on a halted xHCI controller.
In xhci_urb_dequeue(), the err_giveback path releases xhci->lock and
restores interrupts before calling usb_hcd_giveback_urb(). Because
usb_hcd_giveback_urb() takes bh->lock with plain spin_lock(), an
interrupt arriving on the same CPU can deadlock on bh->lock either in
usb_hcd_irq() or when softirq runs usb_giveback_urb_bh().
Patch 1 switches usb_hcd_giveback_urb() to spin_lock_irqsave() since
bh->lock is also acquired in hardirq and BH contexts.
Patch 2 keeps xhci->lock held across usb_hcd_giveback_urb() in
xhci_urb_dequeue(), matching xhci_giveback_urb_in_irq() and keeping
per-endpoint URB giveback ordering serialized.
The two patches are independent and can be applied in either order.
Chien Kun Niu (2):
usb: core: hcd: Disable IRQs when taking bh->lock
xhci: Give back URB under lock in xhci_urb_dequeue()
drivers/usb/core/hcd.c | 5 +++--
drivers/usb/host/xhci.c | 2 +-
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
base-commit: b3dfbde62cf1981c4638939c159dfd087b7a72e9
--
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* Re: [PATCH 1/2] usb: core: hcd: Disable IRQs when taking bh->lock
2026-11-13 4:02 ` [PATCH 1/2] usb: core: hcd: Disable IRQs when taking bh->lock Chien Kun Niu
@ 2026-11-13 4:27 ` sashiko-bot
0 siblings, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: sashiko-bot @ 2026-11-13 4:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Chien Kun Niu; +Cc: linux-usb
Thank you for your contribution! Sashiko AI review found no new issues
in this patch, but noticed 1 related pre-existing issue it does not
introduce:
- [Critical] usb: core: hcd: missing BH work cancellation on error path
in usb_add_hcd() [1]
--
commit 4dc28efe0885658abc7f649ad1d1ba25793691d1
Author: Chien Kun Niu <rickyniu@google.com>
usb: core: hcd: Disable IRQs when taking bh->lock
This commit switches usb_hcd_giveback_urb() from spin_lock() to
spin_lock_irqsave() when acquiring bh->lock to prevent same-CPU hardirq and
softirq deadlocks.
> diff --git a/drivers/usb/core/hcd.c b/drivers/usb/core/hcd.c
> index 8e8a5f59b319b..7bb25e7c447d4 100644
> --- a/drivers/usb/core/hcd.c
> +++ b/drivers/usb/core/hcd.c
> @@ -1731,6 +1731,7 @@ static void usb_giveback_urb_bh(struct work_struct *work)
> void usb_hcd_giveback_urb(struct usb_hcd *hcd, struct urb *urb, int status)
> {
> struct giveback_urb_bh *bh;
> + unsigned long flags;
> bool running;
>
> /* pass status to BH via unlinked */
> @@ -1747,10 +1748,10 @@ void usb_hcd_giveback_urb(struct usb_hcd *hcd, struct urb *urb, int status)
> else
> bh = &hcd->low_prio_bh;
>
> - spin_lock(&bh->lock);
> + spin_lock_irqsave(&bh->lock, flags);
> list_add_tail(&urb->urb_list, &bh->head);
> running = bh->running;
> - spin_unlock(&bh->lock);
> + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&bh->lock, flags);
[Severity: Critical]
This problem wasn't introduced by this patch, but can usb_giveback_urb_bh()
access a freed struct usb_hcd [1] if register_root_hub() fails in
usb_add_hcd()?
During register_root_hub(), root-hub URBs have is_root_hub(urb->dev) set, so
usb_hcd_giveback_urb() queues them on hcd->low_prio_bh.bh or
hcd->high_prio_bh.bh. In usb_giveback_urb_bh(), __usb_hcd_giveback_urb()
invokes urb->complete() and wakes the waiting task before finishing its own
bookkeeping on struct giveback_urb_bh:
CPU0 CPU1
usb_add_hcd()
register_root_hub()
...
usb_hcd_giveback_urb()
queue_work(..., &bh->bh)
usb_giveback_urb_bh()
__usb_hcd_giveback_urb()
urb->complete()
// fails and returns error
goto err_register_root_hub;
usb_put_hcd(hcd) // frees hcd
bh->completing_ep = NULL;
spin_lock_irq(&bh->lock); <-- use-after-free
Neither the err_register_root_hub error path in usb_add_hcd() nor
usb_stop_hcd() cancels hcd->high_prio_bh.bh and hcd->low_prio_bh.bh before
the caller drops the last reference to hcd.
[1] https://sashiko.dev/#/bug/linux-6f3b1df1-c32a-430a-a126-7f20495af396
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* Re: [PATCH 2/2] xhci: Give back URB under lock in xhci_urb_dequeue()
2026-11-13 4:02 ` [PATCH 2/2] xhci: Give back URB under lock in xhci_urb_dequeue() Chien Kun Niu
@ 2026-11-13 4:27 ` sashiko-bot
0 siblings, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: sashiko-bot @ 2026-11-13 4:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Chien Kun Niu; +Cc: linux-usb
> Before commit 36dc01657b49 ("usb: host: xhci: Support running urb
> giveback in tasklet context") set HCD_BH, usb_hcd_giveback_urb() ran
> urb->complete() synchronously, so xHCI had to drop xhci->lock before
> giving back an URB. That commit updated xhci_giveback_urb_in_irq() to
> keep xhci->lock held across usb_hcd_giveback_urb(), covering normal
> completions, xhci_process_cancelled_tds(), and xhci_hc_died(), while
> the open-coded err_giveback path in xhci_urb_dequeue() was missed.
>
> Dropping xhci->lock between usb_hcd_unlink_urb_from_ep() and
> usb_hcd_giveback_urb() breaks per-endpoint giveback serialization: a
> concurrent xhci_urb_dequeue() or xhci_hc_died() can acquire xhci->lock
> and queue a later URB onto bh->head ahead of this one, completing URBs
> out of order. When spinlocks disable interrupts, unlocking first also
> causes a redundant IRQ restore/save bounce into bh->lock, and without
> an IRQ-safe bh->lock it exposed task-context unlinks to a same-CPU
> deadlock.
>
> Move usb_hcd_giveback_urb() before spin_unlock_irqrestore(&xhci->lock,
> flags) in err_giveback to match xhci_giveback_urb_in_irq().
>
> Fixes: 36dc01657b49 ("usb: host: xhci: Support running urb giveback in tasklet context")
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Chien Kun Niu <rickyniu@google.com>
Sashiko has reviewed this patch and found no issues.
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