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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3.4 22/23] PM / sleep: Fix request_firmware() error at resume
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 12:02:22 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140726190150.405131027@linuxfoundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140726190149.723570428@linuxfoundation.org>

3.4-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>

commit 4320f6b1d9db4ca912c5eb6ecb328b2e090e1586 upstream.

The commit [247bc037: PM / Sleep: Mitigate race between the freezer
and request_firmware()] introduced the finer state control, but it
also leads to a new bug; for example, a bug report regarding the
firmware loading of intel BT device at suspend/resume:
  https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=873790

The root cause seems to be a small window between the process resume
and the clear of usermodehelper lock.  The request_firmware() function
checks the UMH lock and gives up when it's in UMH_DISABLE state.  This
is for avoiding the invalid  f/w loading during suspend/resume phase.
The problem is, however, that usermodehelper_enable() is called at the
end of thaw_processes().  Thus, a thawed process in between can kick
off the f/w loader code path (in this case, via btusb_setup_intel())
even before the call of usermodehelper_enable().  Then
usermodehelper_read_trylock() returns an error and request_firmware()
spews WARN_ON() in the end.

This oneliner patch fixes the issue just by setting to UMH_FREEZING
state again before restarting tasks, so that the call of
request_firmware() will be blocked until the end of this function
instead of returning an error.

Fixes: 247bc0374254 (PM / Sleep: Mitigate race between the freezer and request_firmware())
Link: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=873790
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 kernel/power/process.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/kernel/power/process.c
+++ b/kernel/power/process.c
@@ -185,6 +185,7 @@ void thaw_processes(void)
 
 	printk("Restarting tasks ... ");
 
+	__usermodehelper_set_disable_depth(UMH_FREEZING);
 	thaw_workqueues();
 
 	read_lock(&tasklist_lock);



  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-07-26 19:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-26 19:02 [PATCH 3.4 00/23] 3.4.100-stable review Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-07-26 19:02 ` [PATCH 3.4 01/23] crypto: testmgr - update LZO compression test vectors Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-07-26 19:02 ` [PATCH 3.4 02/23] shmem: fix faulting into a hole while its punched Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-07-26 19:02 ` [PATCH 3.4 03/23] shmem: fix faulting into a hole, not taking i_mutex Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-07-26 19:02 ` [PATCH 3.4 04/23] shmem: fix splicing from a hole while its punched Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-07-26 19:02 ` [PATCH 3.4 05/23] tcp: fix tcp_match_skb_to_sack() for unaligned SACK at end of an skb Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-07-26 19:02 ` [PATCH 3.4 06/23] 8021q: fix a potential memory leak Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-07-26 19:02 ` [PATCH 3.4 07/23] igmp: fix the problem when mc leave group Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-07-26 19:02 ` [PATCH 3.4 08/23] tcp: fix false undo corner cases Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-07-26 19:02 ` [PATCH 3.4 09/23] appletalk: Fix socket referencing in skb Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-07-26 19:02 ` [PATCH 3.4 10/23] be2net: set EQ DB clear-intr bit in be_open() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-07-26 19:02 ` [PATCH 3.4 11/23] tipc: clear next-pointer of message fragments before reassembly Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-07-26 19:02 ` [PATCH 3.4 12/23] net: sctp: fix information leaks in ulpevent layer Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-07-26 19:02 ` [PATCH 3.4 13/23] net: pppoe: use correct channel MTU when using Multilink PPP Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-07-26 19:02 ` [PATCH 3.4 14/23] sunvnet: clean up objects created in vnet_new() on vnet_exit() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-07-26 19:02 ` [PATCH 3.4 16/23] dns_resolver: Null-terminate the right string Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-07-26 19:02 ` [PATCH 3.4 17/23] ipv4: fix buffer overflow in ip_options_compile() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-07-26 19:02 ` [PATCH 3.4 19/23] mwifiex: fix Tx timeout issue Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-07-26 19:02 ` [PATCH 3.4 20/23] drm/radeon: avoid leaking edid data Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-07-26 19:02 ` [PATCH 3.4 21/23] alarmtimer: Fix bug where relative alarm timers were treated as absolute Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-07-26 19:02 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2014-07-26 19:02 ` [PATCH 3.4 23/23] iommu/vt-d: Disable translation if already enabled Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-07-27 14:58 ` [PATCH 3.4 00/23] 3.4.100-stable review Guenter Roeck

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