[PATCH net-next] r8152: use GFP_NOIO during system suspend

From: Chih Kai Hsu

Date: Mon Aug 10 2026 - 03:04:00 EST


During system suspend, memory allocation with GFP_KERNEL can block
waiting for I/O to complete. If that I/O depends on a device that is
itself suspended, a deadlock results.

Introduce RTL8152_SYSTEM_SUSPEND flag to track when the driver is
operating in the system suspend/resume context. Set the flag at the
start of rtl8152_system_suspend() and clear it at the end of
rtl8152_system_resume(), following the same pattern used by
SELECTIVE_SUSPEND for runtime suspend.

In get_registers() and set_registers(), select GFP_NOIO when the flag
is set so that the kmalloc and kmemdup calls in those paths do not
trigger I/O reclaim.

Signed-off-by: Chih Kai Hsu <hsu.chih.kai@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/usb/r8152.c | 17 +++++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/usb/r8152.c b/drivers/net/usb/r8152.c
index f61686433031..57d04af6368c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/usb/r8152.c
+++ b/drivers/net/usb/r8152.c
@@ -792,6 +792,7 @@ enum rtl8152_flags {
IN_PRE_RESET,
PROBED_WITH_NO_ERRORS,
PROBE_SHOULD_RETRY,
+ RTL8152_SYSTEM_SUSPEND,
};

#define DEVICE_ID_LENOVO_USB_C_TRAVEL_HUB 0x721e
@@ -1370,9 +1371,12 @@ static
int get_registers(struct r8152 *tp, u16 value, u16 index, u16 size, void *data)
{
int ret;
+ gfp_t gfp;
void *tmp;

- tmp = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
+ gfp = test_bit(RTL8152_SYSTEM_SUSPEND, &tp->flags) ? GFP_NOIO :
+ GFP_KERNEL;
+ tmp = kmalloc(size, gfp);
if (!tmp)
return -ENOMEM;

@@ -1394,9 +1398,12 @@ static
int set_registers(struct r8152 *tp, u16 value, u16 index, u16 size, void *data)
{
int ret;
+ gfp_t gfp;
void *tmp;

- tmp = kmemdup(data, size, GFP_KERNEL);
+ gfp = test_bit(RTL8152_SYSTEM_SUSPEND, &tp->flags) ? GFP_NOIO :
+ GFP_KERNEL;
+ tmp = kmemdup(data, size, gfp);
if (!tmp)
return -ENOMEM;

@@ -8693,6 +8700,9 @@ static int rtl8152_system_resume(struct r8152 *tp)
usb_submit_urb(tp->intr_urb, GFP_NOIO);
}

+ clear_bit(RTL8152_SYSTEM_SUSPEND, &tp->flags);
+ smp_mb__after_atomic();
+
return 0;
}

@@ -8758,6 +8768,9 @@ static int rtl8152_system_suspend(struct r8152 *tp)
{
struct net_device *netdev = tp->netdev;

+ set_bit(RTL8152_SYSTEM_SUSPEND, &tp->flags);
+ smp_mb__after_atomic();
+
netif_device_detach(netdev);

if (netif_running(netdev) && test_bit(WORK_ENABLE, &tp->flags)) {
--
2.34.1