Re: r8188eu deadlock

[Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>]

On 06/11/2015 10:00 PM, Paul Thomas wrote:
> Hello, I just got a TP-LINK TL-WN725N adapter (VID 0bda, PID 8179)
>
> The driver in the staging area seems to be working fine, but I get
> this on startup. I'm using this with a BeagleBone Black. I did a fresh
> git pull today, so it is with kernel 4.1.0-rc7-00063-gcff100f, I
> haven't tried it with the wireless-testing branch.
>
> Anyway, thought someone might be interested.
>
> thanks,
> Paul
>
> [   22.489564] =============================================
> [   22.495221] [ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ]
> [   22.500883] 4.1.0-rc7-00063-gcff100f #3 Tainted: G         C
> [   22.507266] ---------------------------------------------
> [   22.512921] RTW_CMD_THREAD/554 is trying to acquire lock:
> [   22.518577]  (&(&(pqueue->lock))->rlock){+.-...}, at: [<bf0f4e68>]
> _rtw_alloc_network+0x14/0xc4 [r8188eu]
> [   22.528847]
> [   22.528847] but task is already holding lock:
> [   22.534969]  (&(&(pqueue->lock))->rlock){+.-...}, at: [<bf0f54ec>]
> rtw_update_scanned_network+0x18/0x234 [r8188eu]
> [   22.545910]
> [   22.545910] other info that might help us debug this:
> [   22.552759]  Possible unsafe locking scenario:
> [   22.552759]
> [   22.558969]        CPU0
> [   22.561534]        ----
> [   22.564097]   lock(&(&(pqueue->lock))->rlock);
> [   22.568765]   lock(&(&(pqueue->lock))->rlock);
> [   22.573433]
> [   22.573433]  *** DEADLOCK ***
> [   22.573433]
> [   22.579654]  May be due to missing lock nesting notation
> [   22.579654]
> [   22.586775] 2 locks held by RTW_CMD_THREAD/554:
> [   22.591520]  #0:  (&(&(pmlmepriv->lock))->rlock){+.....}, at:
> [<bf0f57c8>] rtw_survey_event_callback+0x7c/0x1c4 [r8188eu]
> [   22.603094]  #1:  (&(&(pqueue->lock))->rlock){+.-...}, at:
> [<bf0f54ec>] rtw_update_scanned_network+0x18/0x234 [r8188eu]
> [   22.614481]
> [   22.614481] stack backtrace:
> [   22.619064] CPU: 0 PID: 554 Comm: RTW_CMD_THREAD Tainted: G
> C      4.1.0-rc7-00063-gcff100f #3
> [   22.628817] Hardware name: Generic AM33XX (Flattened Device Tree)
> [   22.635227] [<c0016b14>] (unwind_backtrace) from [<c0013084>]
> (show_stack+0x10/0x14)
> [   22.643355] [<c0013084>] (show_stack) from [<c05e4184>]
> (dump_stack+0x84/0x9c)
> [   22.650944] [<c05e4184>] (dump_stack) from [<c008eb00>]
> (__lock_acquire+0x1a44/0x1edc)
> [   22.659253] [<c008eb00>] (__lock_acquire) from [<c008f8a0>]
> (lock_acquire+0xa8/0x124)
> [   22.667473] [<c008f8a0>] (lock_acquire) from [<c05ea9fc>]
> (_raw_spin_lock_bh+0x44/0x54)
> [   22.675926] [<c05ea9fc>] (_raw_spin_lock_bh) from [<bf0f4e68>]
> (_rtw_alloc_network+0x14/0xc4 [r8188eu])
> [   22.685883] [<bf0f4e68>] (_rtw_alloc_network [r8188eu]) from
> [<bf0f55c0>] (rtw_update_scanned_network+0xec/0x234 [r8188eu])
> [   22.697654] [<bf0f55c0>] (rtw_update_scanned_network [r8188eu])
> from [<bf0f5844>] (rtw_survey_event_callback+0xf8/0x1c4 [r8188eu])
> [   22.710069] [<bf0f5844>] (rtw_survey_event_callback [r8188eu]) from
> [<bf100f08>] (mlme_evt_hdl+0x5c/0xe8 [r8188eu])
> [   22.721110] [<bf100f08>] (mlme_evt_hdl [r8188eu]) from [<bf0ebc24>]
> (rtw_cmd_thread+0xac/0x2a8 [r8188eu])
> [   22.731191] [<bf0ebc24>] (rtw_cmd_thread [r8188eu]) from
> [<c005e268>] (kthread+0xd4/0xf0)
> [   22.739780] [<c005e268>] (kthread) from [<c000f5b8>]
> (ret_from_fork+0x14/0x3c)

That is a known problem, but I do not know the fix. The only downside is that 
this occurrence disables lockdep testing.

FYI, staging drivers are not updated through wireless, but this is a good place 
to report problems. If you want to try the latest versions of one of these 
drivers, then you need to use staging-next, which is a branch of the staging 
repo maintained by GregKH.

Larry