[PATCH 5.4 318/411] driver core: fix deadlock in __device_attach

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-06-13T11:39:50Z

From: Zhang Wensheng <zhangwensheng5@huawei.com>

[ Upstream commit b232b02bf3c205b13a26dcec08e53baddd8e59ed ]

In __device_attach function, The lock holding logic is as follows:
...
__device_attach
device_lock(dev) // get lock dev
async_schedule_dev(__device_attach_async_helper, dev); // func
async_schedule_node
async_schedule_node_domain(func)
entry = kzalloc(sizeof(struct async_entry), GFP_ATOMIC);
/* when fail or work limit, sync to execute func, but
__device_attach_async_helper will get lock dev as
well, which will lead to A-A deadlock. */
if (!entry || atomic_read(&entry_count) > MAX_WORK) {
func;
else
queue_work_node(node, system_unbound_wq, &entry->work)
device_unlock(dev)

As shown above, when it is allowed to do async probes, because of
out of memory or work limit, async work is not allowed, to do
sync execute instead. it will lead to A-A deadlock because of
__device_attach_async_helper getting lock dev.

To fix the deadlock, move the async_schedule_dev outside device_lock,
as we can see, in async_schedule_node_domain, the parameter of
queue_work_node is system_unbound_wq, so it can accept concurrent
operations. which will also not change the code logic, and will
not lead to deadlock.

Fixes: 765230b5f084 ("driver-core: add asynchronous probing support for drivers")
Signed-off-by: Zhang Wensheng <zhangwensheng5@huawei.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220518074516.1225580-1-zhangwensheng5@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
drivers/base/dd.c | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/base/dd.c b/drivers/base/dd.c
index 26cd4ce3ac75..6f85280fef8d 100644
--- a/drivers/base/dd.c
+++ b/drivers/base/dd.c
@@ -873,6 +873,7 @@ static void __device_attach_async_helper(void *_dev, async_cookie_t cookie)
static int __device_attach(struct device *dev, bool allow_async)
{
int ret = 0;
+ bool async = false;

device_lock(dev);
if (dev->p->dead) {
@@ -911,7 +912,7 @@ static int __device_attach(struct device *dev, bool allow_async)
*/
dev_dbg(dev, "scheduling asynchronous probe\n");
get_device(dev);
- async_schedule_dev(__device_attach_async_helper, dev);
+ async = true;
} else {
pm_request_idle(dev);
}
@@ -921,6 +922,8 @@ static int __device_attach(struct device *dev, bool allow_async)
}
out_unlock:
device_unlock(dev);
+ if (async)
+ async_schedule_dev(__device_attach_async_helper, dev);
return ret;
}

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