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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, Tim Kryger <tim.kryger@gmail.com>,
	Zhang Zhen <zhenzhang.zhang@huawei.com>,
	Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3.10 14/31] serial: 8250_dw: Fix deadlock in LCR workaround
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2015 15:49:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150426134209.944689314@linuxfoundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150426134209.255099785@linuxfoundation.org>

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

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

From: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>

commit 7fd6f640f2dd17dac6ddd6702c378cb0bb9cfa11 upstream.

Trying to write console output from within the serial console driver
while the port->lock is held causes recursive deadlock:

  CPU 0
spin_lock_irqsave(&port->lock)
printk()
  console_unlock()
    call_console_drivers()
      serial8250_console_write()
        spin_lock_irqsave(&port->lock)
** DEADLOCK **

The 8250_dw i/o accessors try to write a console error message if the
LCR workaround was unsuccessful. When the port->lock is already held
(eg., when called from serial8250_set_termios()), this deadlocks.

Make the error message a FIXME until a general solution is devised.

Cc: Tim Kryger <tim.kryger@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Zhang Zhen <zhenzhang.zhang@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_dw.c |   10 ++++++++--
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_dw.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_dw.c
@@ -98,7 +98,10 @@ static void dw8250_serial_out(struct uar
 			dw8250_force_idle(p);
 			writeb(value, p->membase + (UART_LCR << p->regshift));
 		}
-		dev_err(p->dev, "Couldn't set LCR to %d\n", value);
+		/*
+		 * FIXME: this deadlocks if port->lock is already held
+		 * dev_err(p->dev, "Couldn't set LCR to %d\n", value);
+		 */
 	}
 }
 
@@ -128,7 +131,10 @@ static void dw8250_serial_out32(struct u
 			dw8250_force_idle(p);
 			writel(value, p->membase + (UART_LCR << p->regshift));
 		}
-		dev_err(p->dev, "Couldn't set LCR to %d\n", value);
+		/*
+		 * FIXME: this deadlocks if port->lock is already held
+		 * dev_err(p->dev, "Couldn't set LCR to %d\n", value);
+		 */
 	}
 }
 



  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-04-26 13:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-26 13:48 [PATCH 3.10 00/31] 3.10.76-stable review Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-04-26 13:46 ` [PATCH 3.10 02/31] remove extra definitions of U32_MAX Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-04-26 13:46 ` [PATCH 3.10 03/31] tcp: prevent fetching dst twice in early demux code Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-04-26 13:46 ` [PATCH 3.10 04/31] ipv6: Dont reduce hop limit for an interface Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-04-26 13:46 ` [PATCH 3.10 05/31] tcp: fix FRTO undo on cumulative ACK of SACKed range Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-04-26 13:46 ` [PATCH 3.10 07/31] 8139cp: Call dev_kfree_skby_any instead of kfree_skb Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-04-26 13:46 ` [PATCH 3.10 08/31] 8139too: Call dev_kfree_skby_any instead of dev_kfree_skb Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-04-26 13:46 ` [PATCH 3.10 09/31] r8169: " Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-04-26 13:46 ` [PATCH 3.10 10/31] bnx2: " Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-04-26 13:46 ` [PATCH 3.10 11/31] tg3: " Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-04-26 13:46 ` [PATCH 3.10 12/31] ixgb: " Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-04-26 13:46 ` [PATCH 3.10 13/31] benet: Call dev_kfree_skby_any instead of kfree_skb Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-04-26 13:46 ` [PATCH 3.10 15/31] jfs: fix readdir regression Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-04-26 13:46 ` [PATCH 3.10 16/31] splice: Apply generic position and size checks to each write Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-04-26 13:46 ` [PATCH 3.10 17/31] mm: Fix NULL pointer dereference in madvise(MADV_WILLNEED) support Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-04-26 13:46 ` [PATCH 3.10 18/31] Bluetooth: Enable Atheros 0cf3:311e for firmware upload Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-04-26 13:46 ` [PATCH 3.10 19/31] Bluetooth: Add firmware update for Atheros 0cf3:311f Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-04-26 13:46 ` [PATCH 3.10 20/31] Bluetooth: btusb: Add IMC Networks (Broadcom based) Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-04-26 13:46 ` [PATCH 3.10 21/31] Bluetooth: Add support for Intel bootloader devices Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-04-26 13:46 ` [PATCH 3.10 24/31] KVM: x86: SYSENTER emulation is broken Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-04-26 13:46 ` [PATCH 3.10 26/31] move d_rcu from overlapping d_child to overlapping d_alias Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-04-26 13:46 ` [PATCH 3.10 27/31] deal with deadlock in d_walk() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-04-27  1:20   ` Ben Hutchings
2015-04-27  7:53     ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-04-26 13:46 ` [PATCH 3.10 28/31] vm: add VM_FAULT_SIGSEGV handling support Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-04-26 13:46 ` [PATCH 3.10 30/31] x86: mm: move mmap_sem unlock from mm_fault_error() to caller Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-04-26 13:48 ` [PATCH 3.10 01/31] conditionally define U32_MAX Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-04-26 13:49 ` [PATCH 3.10 06/31] tcp: tcp_make_synack() should clear skb->tstamp Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-04-27  4:02   ` Willy Tarreau
2015-04-27  4:23     ` Eric Dumazet
2015-04-27  4:45     ` David Miller
2015-04-26 13:49 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2015-04-26 13:49 ` [PATCH 3.10 22/31] Bluetooth: Ignore isochronous endpoints for Intel USB bootloader Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-04-26 13:49 ` [PATCH 3.10 23/31] netfilter: conntrack: disable generic tracking for known protocols Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-04-26 13:49 ` [PATCH 3.10 29/31] vm: make stack guard page errors return VM_FAULT_SIGSEGV rather than SIGBUS Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-04-26 13:49 ` [PATCH 3.10 31/31] sb_edac: avoid INTERNAL ERROR message in EDAC with unspecified channel Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-04-26 15:15 ` [PATCH 3.10 00/31] 3.10.76-stable review Guenter Roeck
2015-04-26 17:12   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-04-26 17:14     ` Guenter Roeck
2015-04-26 20:01 ` Guenter Roeck
2015-04-27 17:19 ` Shuah Khan

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