Re: [BUG] gpu: drm: radeon: two possible deadlocks involving locking and waiting

[Christian König]

Hi Jia-Ju,

interesting that you have found those issues with an automated tool.

And yes that is a well design flaw within the radeon driver which can 
happen on hardware faults, e.g. when radeon_ring_backup() needs to be 
called.

But that happens so rarely and the driver is not developed further that 
we decided to not address this any more.

Regards,
Christian.

Am 01.02.22 um 08:40 schrieb Jia-Ju Bai:
> Hello,
>
> My static analysis tool reports a possible deadlock in the radeon 
> driver in Linux 5.16:
>
> #BUG 1
> radeon_dpm_change_power_state_locked()
>   mutex_lock(&rdev->ring_lock); --> Line 1133 (Lock A)
>   radeon_fence_wait_empty()
>     radeon_fence_wait_seq_timeout()
>       wait_event_timeout(rdev->fence_queue, ...) --> Line 504 (Wait X)
>
> radeon_ring_backup()
>   mutex_lock(&rdev->ring_lock); --> Line 289(Lock A)
>   radeon_fence_count_emitted()
>     radeon_fence_process()
>       wake_up_all(&rdev->fence_queue); --> Line 323 (Wake X)
>
> When radeon_dpm_change_power_state_locked() is executed, "Wait X" is 
> performed by holding "Lock A". If radeon_ring_backup() is executed at 
> this time, "Wake X" cannot be performed to wake up "Wait X" in 
> radeon_dpm_change_power_state_locked(), because "Lock A" has been 
> already hold by radeon_dpm_change_power_state_locked(), causing a 
> possible deadlock.
> I find that "Wait X" is performed with a timeout MAX_SCHEDULE_TIMEOUT, 
> to relieve the possible deadlock; but I think this timeout can cause 
> inefficient execution.
>
> #BUG 2
> radeon_ring_lock()
>   mutex_lock(&rdev->ring_lock); --> Line 147 (Lock A)
>   radeon_ring_alloc()
>     radeon_fence_wait_next()
>       radeon_fence_wait_seq_timeout()
>         wait_event_timeout(rdev->fence_queue, ...) --> Line 504 (Wait X)
>
> radeon_ring_backup()
>   mutex_lock(&rdev->ring_lock); --> Line 289(Lock A)
>   radeon_fence_count_emitted()
>     radeon_fence_process()
>       wake_up_all(&rdev->fence_queue); --> Line 323 (Wake X)
>
> When radeon_ring_lock() is executed, "Wait X" is performed by holding 
> "Lock A". If radeon_ring_backup() is executed at this time, "Wake X" 
> cannot be performed to wake up "Wait X" in radeon_ring_lock(), because 
> "Lock A" has been already hold by radeon_ring_lock(), causing a 
> possible deadlock.
> I find that "Wait X" is performed with a timeout MAX_SCHEDULE_TIMEOUT, 
> to relieve the possible deadlock; but I think this timeout can cause 
> inefficient execution.
>
> I am not quite sure whether these possible problems are real and how 
> to fix them if they are real.
> Any feedback would be appreciated, thanks :)
>
>
> Best wishes,
> Jia-Ju Bai