Re: [patch] xenfb: fix xenfb suspend/resume race

From: Joe Jin
Date: Thu Jan 06 2011 - 02:15:22 EST


On 01/04/11 19:15, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-12-30 at 16:40 +0000, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 08:56:16PM +0800, Joe Jin wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>
>> Joe,
>>
>> Patch looks good, however..
>>
>> I am unclear from your description whether the patch fixes
>> the problem (I would presume so). Or does it take a long time
>> to hit this race?
>
> I also don't see how the patch relates to the stack trace.
>
> Is the issue is that xenfb_send_event is called between xenfb_resume
> (which tears down the state, including evtchn->irq binding) and the
> probe/connect of the new fb?

Yes, when hit this issue, with debugging kernel found irq is invalid(-1).
Check if irq is valid will fix this issue.

And, when failed to connect to backend, need to release the resource.

Please review new patch for this issue.
Thanks,
Joe


Signed-off-by: Joe Jin <joe.jin@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
video/xen-fbfront.c | 19 +++++++++++--------
xen/events.c | 4 ++++
2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/video/xen-fbfront.c b/drivers/video/xen-fbfront.c
index dc72563..367fb1c 100644
--- a/drivers/video/xen-fbfront.c
+++ b/drivers/video/xen-fbfront.c
@@ -561,26 +561,24 @@ static void xenfb_init_shared_page(struct xenfb_info *info,
static int xenfb_connect_backend(struct xenbus_device *dev,
struct xenfb_info *info)
{
- int ret, evtchn;
+ int ret, evtchn, irq;
struct xenbus_transaction xbt;

ret = xenbus_alloc_evtchn(dev, &evtchn);
if (ret)
return ret;
- ret = bind_evtchn_to_irqhandler(evtchn, xenfb_event_handler,
+ irq = bind_evtchn_to_irqhandler(evtchn, xenfb_event_handler,
0, dev->devicetype, info);
- if (ret < 0) {
+ if (irq < 0) {
xenbus_free_evtchn(dev, evtchn);
xenbus_dev_fatal(dev, ret, "bind_evtchn_to_irqhandler");
- return ret;
+ return irq;
}
- info->irq = ret;
-
again:
ret = xenbus_transaction_start(&xbt);
if (ret) {
xenbus_dev_fatal(dev, ret, "starting transaction");
- return ret;
+ goto unbind_irq;
}
ret = xenbus_printf(xbt, dev->nodename, "page-ref", "%lu",
virt_to_mfn(info->page));
@@ -602,15 +600,20 @@ static int xenfb_connect_backend(struct xenbus_device *dev,
if (ret == -EAGAIN)
goto again;
xenbus_dev_fatal(dev, ret, "completing transaction");
- return ret;
+ goto unbind_irq;
}

xenbus_switch_state(dev, XenbusStateInitialised);
+ info->irq = irq;
return 0;

error_xenbus:
xenbus_transaction_end(xbt, 1);
xenbus_dev_fatal(dev, ret, "writing xenstore");
+ unbind_irq:
+ printk(KERN_ERR "xenfb_connect_backend failed!\n");
+ unbind_from_irqhandler(irq, info);
+ xenbus_free_evtchn(dev, evtchn);
return ret;
}

diff --git a/drivers/xen/events.c b/drivers/xen/events.c
index ac7b42f..4028704 100644
--- a/drivers/xen/events.c
+++ b/drivers/xen/events.c
@@ -175,6 +175,10 @@ static struct irq_info *info_for_irq(unsigned irq)

static unsigned int evtchn_from_irq(unsigned irq)
{
+ if (unlikely(irq < 0 || irq >= nr_irqs)) {
+ WARN_ON(1, "[%s]: Invalid irq(%d)!\n", __func__, irq);
+ return 0;
+ }
return info_for_irq(irq)->evtchn;
}

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