linux-kernel - Re: Frequent dwc3 crashes on suspend or reboot since 5.0-rc1

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Date:   Fri, 1 Feb 2019 16:41:38 -0800
From:   John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>
To:     Felipe Balbi <balbi@...nel.org>,
        Zeng Tao <prime.zeng@...ilicon.com>,
        Jack Pham <jackp@...eaurora.org>,
        Thinh Nguyen <thinh.nguyen@...opsys.com>,
        Chen Yu <chenyu56@...wei.com>
Cc:     lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux USB List <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: Frequent dwc3 crashes on suspend or reboot since 5.0-rc1

On Fri, Feb 1, 2019 at 4:18 PM John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org> wrote:
>
> Hey all,
>   Since the 5.0 merge window opened, I've been tripping on frequent
> dwc3 crashes on reboot and suspend, which I've added an example to the
> bottom of this mail.
>
> I've dug in a little bit and sort of have a sense of whats going on.
>
> In ffs_epfile_io():
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_fs.c#n1065
>
> The completion done is setup on the stack:
>   DECLARE_COMPLETION_ONSTACK(done);
>
> Then later we setup a request and queue it:
>   req->context  = &done;
>   ...
>   ret = usb_ep_queue(ep->ep, req, GFP_ATOMIC);
>
> Then wait for it:
>   if (unlikely(wait_for_completion_interruptible(&done))) {
>     /*
>     * To avoid race condition with ffs_epfile_io_complete,
>     * dequeue the request first then check
>     * status. usb_ep_dequeue API should guarantee no race
>     * condition with req->complete callback.
>     */
>     usb_ep_dequeue(ep->ep, req);
>     interrupted = ep->status < 0;
>   }
>
> The problem is, that we end up being interrupted, supposedly dequeue
> the request, and exit.
>
> But then (or in parallel) the irq triggers and we try calling
> complete() on the context pointer which points to now random stack
> space, which results in the panic.
>
> It seems like something is wrong with usb_ep_dequeue not really
> stopping the irq from happening?
>
> If I revert all the changes to dwc3 back to 4.20, I don't see the issue.
>
> I'll do some bisection to try to narrow things down, but I wanted to
> see if this was a known issue or if anyone had immediate ideas as to
> what might be wrong.

Bisecting the changes down, it seems like its due to commit
fec9095bdef4e ("usb: dwc3: gadget: remove wait_end_transfer").

It doesn't happen all the time, so I'll need to run some more testing,
but so far I've not been able to trigger it backing out the patches to
that point.

thanks
-john