linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHv3] thunderbolt: do not double dequeue a request

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Message-ID: <20250509091614.GB88033@black.fi.intel.com>
Date: Fri, 9 May 2025 12:16:14 +0300
From: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@...ux.intel.com>
To: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@...omium.org>
Cc: Mika Westerberg <westeri@...nel.org>,
	Andreas Noever <andreas.noever@...il.com>,
	Michael Jamet <michael.jamet@...el.com>,
	Yehezkel Bernat <YehezkelShB@...il.com>, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv3] thunderbolt: do not double dequeue a request

On Thu, May 08, 2025 at 12:47:18PM +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> On (25/03/28 00:03), Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> > Some of our devices crash in tb_cfg_request_dequeue():
> > 
> >  general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdead000000000122
> > 
> >  CPU: 6 PID: 91007 Comm: kworker/6:2 Tainted: G U W 6.6.65
> >  RIP: 0010:tb_cfg_request_dequeue+0x2d/0xa0
> >  Call Trace:
> >  <TASK>
> >  ? tb_cfg_request_dequeue+0x2d/0xa0
> >  tb_cfg_request_work+0x33/0x80
> >  worker_thread+0x386/0x8f0
> >  kthread+0xed/0x110
> >  ret_from_fork+0x38/0x50
> >  ret_from_fork_asm+0x1b/0x30
> > 
> > The circumstances are unclear, however, the theory is that
> > tb_cfg_request_work() can be scheduled twice for a request:
> > first time via frame.callback from ring_work() and second
> > time from tb_cfg_request().  Both times kworkers will execute
> > tb_cfg_request_dequeue(), which results in double list_del()
> > from the ctl->request_queue (the list poison deference hints
> > at it: 0xdead000000000122).
> > 
> > Do not dequeue requests that don't have TB_CFG_REQUEST_ACTIVE
> > bit set.
> 
> Mika, as was discussed in [1] thread we rolled out the fix to
> our fleet and we don't see the crashes anymore.  So it's tested
> and verified.

Cool, thanks! Applied to thunderbolt.git/fixes.