Re: bus/mhi/core: Double lock in mhi_device_put() and dev_wake inc/dec

From: bbhatt
Date: Fri Sep 18 2020 - 22:34:14 EST


On 2020-09-17 16:16, Shuah Khan wrote:
While looking at this file for an unrelated issue, I happen to notice
there is a double locking on mhi_cntrl->pm_lock in the mhi_device_put()
when it gets called from mhi_driver_remove()

The other two calls from mhi_driver_probe() don't hold the pm_lock.

In addition, lock holding while dev_wake updates is inconsistent.

dev_wake gets incremented and decremented without holding pm_lock in
mhi_device_get(), mhi_device_get_sync() and mhi_device_put().

Exception are when mhi_device_put() is called from mhi_driver_remove().

The following commit is where all this code is added.

bus: mhi: core: Add support for data transfer
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/189ff97cca53e3fe2d8b38d64105040ce17fc62d

It appears to be real problem. I don't have a way to test this driver,
hence reaching out to let you know about my findings.

thanks,
-- Shuah
Thank you for inputs.

Hemant and I discussed this and we agree that there are inconsistencies we need to fix.

We will be uploading a patch to remove the read_lock_bh/read_unlock_bh calls from the
mhi_driver_remove().

Thanks,
Bhaumik
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