linux-kernel - Re: hid-related 5.2-rc1 boot hang

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Message-ID: <4548d196-b75f-c4d0-8f3c-3e734b9a758c@redhat.com>
Date:   Tue, 4 Jun 2019 10:05:02 +0200
From:   Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>
To:     Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@...hat.com>
Cc:     Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>,
        "open list:HID CORE LAYER" <linux-input@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: hid-related 5.2-rc1 boot hang

Hi,

On 04-06-19 09:51, Benjamin Tissoires wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 4:17 PM Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 03-06-19 15:55, Benjamin Tissoires wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 11:51 AM Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi Again,
>>>>
>>>> On 03-06-19 11:11, Hans de Goede wrote:
>>>> <snip>
>>>>
>>>>>> not sure about the rest of logitech issues yet) next week.
>>>>>
>>>>> The main problem seems to be the request_module patches. Although I also
>>>
>>> Can't we use request_module_nowait() instead, and set a reasonable
>>> timeout that we detect only once to check if userspace is compatible:
>>>
>>> In pseudo-code:
>>> if (!request_module_checked) {
>>>     request_module_nowait(name);
>>>     use_request_module = wait_event_timeout(wq,
>>>           first_module_loaded, 10 seconds in jiffies);
>>>     request_module_checked = true;
>>> } else if (use_request_module) {
>>>     request_module(name);
>>> }
>>
>> Well looking at the just attached dmesg , the modprobe
>> when triggered by udev from userspace succeeds in about
>> 0.5 seconds, so it seems that the modprobe hangs happens
>> when called from within the kernel rather then from within
>> userspace.
>>
>> What I do not know if is the hang is inside userspace, or
>> maybe it happens when modprobe calls back into the kernel,
>> if the hang happens when modprobe calls back into the kernel,
>> then other modprobes (done from udev) likely will hang too
>> since I think only 1 modprobe can happen at a time.
>>
>> I really wish we knew what distinguished working systems
>> from non working systems :|
>>
>> I cannot find a common denominator; other then the systems
>> are not running Fedora. So far we've reports from both Ubuntu 16.04
>> and Tumbleweed, so software version wise these 2 are wide apart.
> 
> I am trying to reproduce the lock locally, and installed an opensuse
> Tumbleweed in a VM. When forwarding a Unifying receiver to the VM, I
> do not see the lock with either my vanilla compiled kernel and the rpm
> found in http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Kernel:/HEAD/standard/x86_64/
> 
> Next step is install Tumbleweed on bare metal, but I do not see how
> this could introduce a difference (maybe USB2 vs 3).

Ok, thank you for looking into this.

>>>>> have 2 reports of problems with hid-logitech-dj driving the 0xc52f product-id,
>>>>> so we may need to drop that product-id from hid-logitech-dj, I'm working on
>>>>> that one...
>>>>
>>>> Besides the modprobe hanging issue, the only other issues all
>>>> (2 reporters) seem to be with 0xc52f receivers. We have a bug
>>>> open for this:
>>>>
>>>> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=203619
>>>>
>>>> And I've asked the reporter of the second bug to add his logs
>>>> to that bug.
>>>
>>> We should likely just remove c52f from the list of supported devices.
>>> C52f receivers seem to have a different firmware as they are meant to
>>> work with different devices than C534. So I guess it is safer to not
>>> handle those right now and get the code in when it is ready.
>>
>> Ack. Can you prepare a patch to drop the c52f id?
> 
> Yes. I have an other revert never submitted that I need to push, so I
> guess I can do a revert session today.
> 
> I think I'll also buy one device with hopefully the C52F receiver as
> the report descriptors attached in
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=203619 seems different to
> what I would have expected.

They are actually what I expected :)

The first USB interface is a mouse boot class device, since this is a mouse
only receiver. This means that the mouse report is unnumbered and we need to
extend the unnumbered mouse-report handling to handle this case. Also the
device is using the same highres mouse-reports as the gaming receiver is.

I'm actually preparing a patch right now which should fix this. Still might
be better to do the revert for 5.2 and get proper support for the c52f
receiver into 5.3.

Regards,

Hans