netdev - Re: Subject: Locking mv88e6xxx_reg_lock twice leads deadlock for 88E6176 switch

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Date:   Wed, 14 Dec 2022 14:42:29 +0300
From:   Maxim Kiselev <bigunclemax@...il.com>
To:     Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>
Cc:     fido_max@...ox.ru, mw@...ihalf.com, Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        Richard Cochran <richardcochran@...il.com>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Subject: Locking mv88e6xxx_reg_lock twice leads deadlock for
 88E6176 switch

Thanks for the quick fix, Vladimir!

ср, 14 дек. 2022 г. в 14:04, Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>:
>
> On Wed, Dec 14, 2022 at 01:58:55AM +0300, Maksim Kiselev wrote:
> > Hello, friends.
>
> Hello.
>
> > I have a device with Marvell 88E6176 switch.
> > After 'mv88e6xxx: fix speed setting for CPU/DSA ports (cc1049ccee20)'commit was applied to
> > mainline kernel I faced with a problem that switch driver stuck at 'mv88e6xxx_probe' function.
>
> Sorry for that.
>
> > I made some investigations and found that 'mv88e6xxx_reg_lock' called twice from the same thread which leads to deadlock.
> >
> > I added logs to 'mv88e6xxx_reg_lock' and 'mv88e6xxx_reg_unlock' functions to see what happened.
>
> I hope you didn't spend too much time doing that. If you enable CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING,
> you should automatically get a stack trace with the two threads that
> acquired the mutex leading to the deadlock.
>
> I've sent a patch which solves that issue here:
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/netdevbpf/patch/20221214110120.3368472-1-vladimir.oltean@nxp.com/
> I've regression-tested it on 88E6390. Please confirm with a Tested-by:
> tag on that patch that it does resolve the deadlock for 88E6176.
>
> Thanks for reporting!