linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V2] usb: gadget: f_fs: don't free buffer prematurely

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Date:   Wed, 20 Mar 2019 12:52:46 -0400 (EDT)
From:   Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
To:     John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>
cc:     fei.yang@...el.com, Felipe Balbi <balbi@...nel.org>,
        Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        <andrzej.p@...labora.com>,
        Vincent Pelletier <plr.vincent@...il.com>,
        Linux USB List <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>,
        lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Josh Gao <jmgao@...gle.com>,
        Alistair Strachan <astrachan@...gle.com>,
        Shen Jing <jingx.shen@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] usb: gadget: f_fs: don't free buffer prematurely

On Wed, 20 Mar 2019, John Stultz wrote:

> Hey Fei,
>   So while this patch does resolve the issues I was seeing with
> mainline kernels and recent changes to adbd, Josh pointed out that it
> wouldn't resolve the issues I was seeing with older kernels which is
> slightly different (but still related to aio usage).
> 
> On the older kernels I'm hitting scheduling while atomic on reboot,
> which seems to be due to ffs_aio_cancel() taking a spinlock then
> calling usb_ep_dequeue() which might sleep.
> 
> It seems a fix for this was tried earlier with d52e4d0c0c428 ("usb:
> gadget: ffs: Fix BUG when userland exits with submitted AIO
> transfers") which was then reverted by a9c859033f6e.
> 
> Elsewhere it seems the ffs driver takes effort to drop any locks
> before calling usb_ep_dequeue(), so this seems like that should be
> addressed, but it also seems like recent change to the dwc3 driver has
> been made to avoid sleeping in that path (see fec9095bdef4 ("usb:
> dwc3: gadget: remove wait_end_transfer")), which may be why I'm not
> seeing the problem with mainline (and your patch here, of coarse).
> But that also doesn't clarify if its still a potential issue w/
> non-dwc3 platforms.
> 
> So for older kernels, do you have a suggestion of which approach is
> advised?  Does usb_ep_dequeue need to avoid sleeping or do we need to
> rework the ffs_aio_cancel logic?

usb_ep_dequeue can be called in interrupt context, meaning it is never
allowed to sleep.  This is mentioned in the kerneldoc:

/**
 * usb_ep_dequeue - dequeues (cancels, unlinks) an I/O request from an endpoint
 * @ep:the endpoint associated with the request
 * @req:the request being canceled
 *
 * If the request is still active on the endpoint, it is dequeued and
 * eventually its completion routine is called (with status -ECONNRESET);
 * else a negative error code is returned.  This routine is asynchronous,
 * that is, it may return before the completion routine runs.
 *
 * Note that some hardware can't clear out write fifos (to unlink the request
 * at the head of the queue) except as part of disconnecting from usb. Such
 * restrictions prevent drivers from supporting configuration changes,
 * even to configuration zero (a "chapter 9" requirement).
 *
 * This routine may be called in interrupt context.
 */

Alan Stern