linux-kernel - [PATCH -next] spi: spidev: fix a recursive locking error

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Message-Id: <20230116144149.305560-1-brgl@bgdev.pl>
Date:   Mon, 16 Jan 2023 15:41:49 +0100
From:   Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@...ev.pl>
To:     Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>,
        Francesco Dolcini <francesco@...cini.it>,
        Max Krummenacher <max.krummenacher@...adex.com>
Cc:     linux-spi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@...aro.org>
Subject: [PATCH -next] spi: spidev: fix a recursive locking error

From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@...aro.org>

When calling spidev_message() from the one of the ioctl() callbacks, the
spi_lock is already taken. When we then end up calling spidev_sync(), we
get the following splat:

[  214.047619]
[  214.049198] ============================================
[  214.054533] WARNING: possible recursive locking detected
[  214.059858] 6.2.0-rc3-0.0.0-devel+git.97ec4d559d93 #1 Not tainted
[  214.065969] --------------------------------------------
[  214.071290] spidev_test/1454 is trying to acquire lock:
[  214.076530] c4925dbc (&spidev->spi_lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: spidev_ioctl+0x8e0/0xab8
[  214.084164]
[  214.084164] but task is already holding lock:
[  214.090007] c4925dbc (&spidev->spi_lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: spidev_ioctl+0x44/0xab8
[  214.097537]
[  214.097537] other info that might help us debug this:
[  214.104075]  Possible unsafe locking scenario:
[  214.104075]
[  214.110004]        CPU0
[  214.112461]        ----
[  214.114916]   lock(&spidev->spi_lock);
[  214.118687]   lock(&spidev->spi_lock);
[  214.122457]
[  214.122457]  *** DEADLOCK ***
[  214.122457]
[  214.128386]  May be due to missing lock nesting notation
[  214.128386]
[  214.135183] 2 locks held by spidev_test/1454:
[  214.139553]  #0: c4925dbc (&spidev->spi_lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: spidev_ioctl+0x44/0xab8
[  214.147524]  #1: c4925e14 (&spidev->buf_lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: spidev_ioctl+0x70/0xab8
[  214.155493]
[  214.155493] stack backtrace:
[  214.159861] CPU: 0 PID: 1454 Comm: spidev_test Not tainted 6.2.0-rc3-0.0.0-devel+git.97ec4d559d93 #1
[  214.169012] Hardware name: Freescale i.MX6 Quad/DualLite (Device Tree)
[  214.175555]  unwind_backtrace from show_stack+0x10/0x14
[  214.180819]  show_stack from dump_stack_lvl+0x60/0x90
[  214.185900]  dump_stack_lvl from __lock_acquire+0x874/0x2858
[  214.191584]  __lock_acquire from lock_acquire+0xfc/0x378
[  214.196918]  lock_acquire from __mutex_lock+0x9c/0x8a8
[  214.202083]  __mutex_lock from mutex_lock_nested+0x1c/0x24
[  214.207597]  mutex_lock_nested from spidev_ioctl+0x8e0/0xab8
[  214.213284]  spidev_ioctl from sys_ioctl+0x4d0/0xe2c
[  214.218277]  sys_ioctl from ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x1c
[  214.223351] Exception stack(0xe75cdfa8 to 0xe75cdff0)
[  214.228422] dfa0:                   00000000 00001000 00000003 40206b00 bee266e8 bee266e0
[  214.236617] dfc0: 00000000 00001000 006a71a0 00000036 004c0040 004bfd18 00000000 00000003
[  214.244809] dfe0: 00000036 bee266c8 b6f16dc5 b6e8e5f6

Fix it by introducing an unlocked variant of spidev_sync() and calling it
from spidev_message() while other users who don't check the spidev->spi's
existence keep on using the locking flavor.

Reported-by: Francesco Dolcini <francesco@...cini.it>
Fixes: 1f4d2dd45b6e ("spi: spidev: fix a race condition when accessing spidev->spi")
Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@...aro.org>
---
 drivers/spi/spidev.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/spi/spidev.c b/drivers/spi/spidev.c
index 8ef22ebcde1f..892965ac8fdf 100644
--- a/drivers/spi/spidev.c
+++ b/drivers/spi/spidev.c
@@ -89,10 +89,22 @@ MODULE_PARM_DESC(bufsiz, "data bytes in biggest supported SPI message");
 
 /*-------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
 
+static ssize_t
+spidev_sync_unlocked(struct spi_device *spi, struct spi_message *message)
+{
+	ssize_t status;
+
+	status = spi_sync(spi, message);
+	if (status == 0)
+		status = message->actual_length;
+
+	return status;
+}
+
 static ssize_t
 spidev_sync(struct spidev_data *spidev, struct spi_message *message)
 {
-	int status;
+	ssize_t status;
 	struct spi_device *spi;
 
 	mutex_lock(&spidev->spi_lock);
@@ -101,12 +113,10 @@ spidev_sync(struct spidev_data *spidev, struct spi_message *message)
 	if (spi == NULL)
 		status = -ESHUTDOWN;
 	else
-		status = spi_sync(spi, message);
-
-	if (status == 0)
-		status = message->actual_length;
+		status = spidev_sync_unlocked(spi, message);
 
 	mutex_unlock(&spidev->spi_lock);
+
 	return status;
 }
 
@@ -294,7 +304,7 @@ static int spidev_message(struct spidev_data *spidev,
 		spi_message_add_tail(k_tmp, &msg);
 	}
 
-	status = spidev_sync(spidev, &msg);
+	status = spidev_sync_unlocked(spidev->spi, &msg);
 	if (status < 0)
 		goto done;
 
-- 
2.37.2