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Message-ID: <53739CFE.8000201@mentor.com>
Date:	Wed, 14 May 2014 17:42:38 +0100
From:	Dean Jenkins <Dean_Jenkins@...tor.com>
To:	Felipe Balbi <balbi@...com>, Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
CC:	linux-serial@...r.kernel.org, linux-bluetooth@...r.kernel.org,
	peter@...leysoftware.com, m-karicheri2@...com,
	b32955@...escale.com,
	Linux OMAP Mailing List <linux-omap@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/11] bluetooth: hci_ldisc: fix deadlock condition

On 20/03/14 19:30, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> LDISCs shouldn't call tty->ops->write() from within
> ->write_wakeup().
>
> ->write_wakeup() is called with port lock taken and
> IRQs disabled, tty->ops->write() will try to acquire
> the same port lock and we will deadlock.
>
I think the work queue should be placed into hci_uart_tty_wakeup() and 
not hci_uart_tx_wakeup() as added by this patch.

The reason is that the kernel thread hci_uart_send_frame() calls 
hci_uart_tx_wakeup() and this patch unnecessarily introduces a work 
queue in the program flow of that kernel thread.

In other words, I think this patch has undesirable side-effects such as 
adding latency and increased processor loading for hci_uart_send_frame().

Regards,
Dean

> Reviewed-by: Peter Hurley <peter@...leysoftware.com>
> Reported-by: Huang Shijie <b32955@...escale.com>
> Signed-off-by: Felipe Balbi <balbi@...com>
> ---
>   drivers/bluetooth/hci_ldisc.c | 24 +++++++++++++++++++-----
>   drivers/bluetooth/hci_uart.h  |  1 +
>   2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/bluetooth/hci_ldisc.c b/drivers/bluetooth/hci_ldisc.c
> index 6e06f6f..77af52f 100644
> --- a/drivers/bluetooth/hci_ldisc.c
> +++ b/drivers/bluetooth/hci_ldisc.c
> @@ -118,10 +118,6 @@ static inline struct sk_buff *hci_uart_dequeue(struct hci_uart *hu)
>   
>   int hci_uart_tx_wakeup(struct hci_uart *hu)
>   {
> -	struct tty_struct *tty = hu->tty;
> -	struct hci_dev *hdev = hu->hdev;
> -	struct sk_buff *skb;
> -
>   	if (test_and_set_bit(HCI_UART_SENDING, &hu->tx_state)) {
>   		set_bit(HCI_UART_TX_WAKEUP, &hu->tx_state);
>   		return 0;
> @@ -129,6 +125,22 @@ int hci_uart_tx_wakeup(struct hci_uart *hu)
>   
>   	BT_DBG("");
>   
> +	schedule_work(&hu->write_work);
> +
> +	return 0;
> +}
> +
> +static void hci_uart_write_work(struct work_struct *work)
> +{
> +	struct hci_uart *hu = container_of(work, struct hci_uart, write_work);
> +	struct tty_struct *tty = hu->tty;
> +	struct hci_dev *hdev = hu->hdev;
> +	struct sk_buff *skb;
> +
> +	/* REVISIT: should we cope with bad skbs or ->write() returning
> +	 * and error value ?
> +	 */
> +
>   restart:
>   	clear_bit(HCI_UART_TX_WAKEUP, &hu->tx_state);
>   
> @@ -153,7 +165,6 @@ restart:
>   		goto restart;
>   
>   	clear_bit(HCI_UART_SENDING, &hu->tx_state);
> -	return 0;
>   }
>   
>   static void hci_uart_init_work(struct work_struct *work)
> @@ -281,6 +292,7 @@ static int hci_uart_tty_open(struct tty_struct *tty)
>   	tty->receive_room = 65536;
>   
>   	INIT_WORK(&hu->init_ready, hci_uart_init_work);
> +	INIT_WORK(&hu->write_work, hci_uart_write_work);
>   
>   	spin_lock_init(&hu->rx_lock);
>   
> @@ -318,6 +330,8 @@ static void hci_uart_tty_close(struct tty_struct *tty)
>   	if (hdev)
>   		hci_uart_close(hdev);
>   
> +	cancel_work_sync(&hu->write_work);
> +
>   	if (test_and_clear_bit(HCI_UART_PROTO_SET, &hu->flags)) {
>   		if (hdev) {
>   			if (test_bit(HCI_UART_REGISTERED, &hu->flags))
> diff --git a/drivers/bluetooth/hci_uart.h b/drivers/bluetooth/hci_uart.h
> index fffa61f..12df101 100644
> --- a/drivers/bluetooth/hci_uart.h
> +++ b/drivers/bluetooth/hci_uart.h
> @@ -68,6 +68,7 @@ struct hci_uart {
>   	unsigned long		hdev_flags;
>   
>   	struct work_struct	init_ready;
> +	struct work_struct	write_work;
>   
>   	struct hci_uart_proto	*proto;
>   	void			*priv;

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