Re: [PATCH] char: misc: make misc_open() and misc_register() killable

[Oliver Neukum]

On 06.07.22 12:26, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> On 2022/07/06 15:34, Greg KH wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 06, 2022 at 03:21:15PM +0900, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
>>> How should we fix this problem?
>>
>> We can decrease the timeout in usb_stor_msg_common().  I imagine that if
>> that timeout is ever hit in this sequence, then all will recover, right?

Not really. The timeout there is supposed to come from the SCSI layer
in the general case.

>> Try decreasing it to a sane number and see what happens.
> 
> Yes, all recovers with below diff.
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> diff --git a/drivers/usb/storage/transport.c b/drivers/usb/storage/transport.c
> index 1928b3918242..d2a192306e0c 100644
> --- a/drivers/usb/storage/transport.c
> +++ b/drivers/usb/storage/transport.c
> @@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ static int usb_stor_msg_common(struct us_data *us, int timeout)
>   
>  	/* wait for the completion of the URB */
>  	timeleft = wait_for_completion_interruptible_timeout(
> -			&urb_done, timeout ? : MAX_SCHEDULE_TIMEOUT);
> +			&urb_done, timeout ? : 5 * HZ);
>   
>  	clear_bit(US_FLIDX_URB_ACTIVE, &us->dflags);
>  
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> But
> 
>>> Anyway,
>>>
>>>         /*
>>>          * Resuming.  We may need to wait for the image device to
>>>          * appear.
>>>          */
>>>         wait_for_device_probe();
>>>
>>> in snapshot_open() will sleep forever if some device became unresponsive.
>>>
> 
> wait_for_device_probe() in snapshot_open() was added by commit c751085943362143
> ("PM/Hibernate: Wait for SCSI devices scan to complete during resume"), and
> that commit did not take into account possibility of unresponsive hardware.
> 
>    "In addition, if the resume from hibernation is userland-driven, it's
>     better to wait for all device probes in the kernel to complete before
>     attempting to open the resume device."
> 
> It is trivial to make e.g. atomic_read(&probe_count) == 10, which means that
> acceptable timeout for usb_stor_msg_common() may be no longer acceptable timeout
> for wait_for_device_probe(). Unlike flush_workqueue(), wait_for_device_probe()
> can wait forever if new probe requests keep coming in while waiting for existing
> probe requests to complete. Therefore, I think we should introduce timeout on
> wait_for_device_probe() side as well.
> 
> I would like to propose below changes in 3 patches as fixes for this problem.
> Since there are 13 wait_for_device_probe() callers, maybe we want both killable
> and uninterruptible versions and pass timeout as an argument...
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>  drivers/base/dd.c               |    3 ++-
>  drivers/char/misc.c             |    9 ++++++---
>  drivers/usb/storage/transport.c |    2 +-
>  3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/base/dd.c b/drivers/base/dd.c
> index 3fc3b5940bb3..67e08b381ee2 100644
> --- a/drivers/base/dd.c
> +++ b/drivers/base/dd.c
> @@ -723,7 +723,8 @@ void wait_for_device_probe(void)
>  	flush_work(&deferred_probe_work);
>  
>  	/* wait for the known devices to complete their probing */
> -	wait_event(probe_waitqueue, atomic_read(&probe_count) == 0);
> +	wait_event_killable_timeout(probe_waitqueue,
> +				    atomic_read(&probe_count) == 0, 60 * HZ);

You cannot just let a timeout go unreported.

>  	async_synchronize_full();
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(wait_for_device_probe);
> diff --git a/drivers/char/misc.c b/drivers/char/misc.c
> index ca5141ed5ef3..6430c534a1cb 100644
> --- a/drivers/char/misc.c
> +++ b/drivers/char/misc.c
> @@ -104,7 +104,8 @@ static int misc_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
>  	int err = -ENODEV;
>  	const struct file_operations *new_fops = NULL;
>  
> -	mutex_lock(&misc_mtx);
> +	if (mutex_lock_killable(&misc_mtx))
> +		return -EINTR;
>  
>  	list_for_each_entry(c, &misc_list, list) {
>  		if (c->minor == minor) {
> @@ -116,7 +117,8 @@ static int misc_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
>  	if (!new_fops) {
>  		mutex_unlock(&misc_mtx);
>  		request_module("char-major-%d-%d", MISC_MAJOR, minor);
> -		mutex_lock(&misc_mtx);
> +		if (mutex_lock_killable(&misc_mtx))
> +			return -EINTR;
>  
>  		list_for_each_entry(c, &misc_list, list) {
>  			if (c->minor == minor) {
> @@ -178,7 +180,8 @@ int misc_register(struct miscdevice *misc)
>  
>  	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&misc->list);
>  
> -	mutex_lock(&misc_mtx);
> +	if (mutex_lock_killable(&misc_mtx))
> +		return -EINTR;

This usually runs in the context of a kernel thread, does it not?
What could kill that?

>  
>  	if (is_dynamic) {
>  		int i = find_first_zero_bit(misc_minors, DYNAMIC_MINORS);
> diff --git a/drivers/usb/storage/transport.c b/drivers/usb/storage/transport.c
> index 1928b3918242..d2a192306e0c 100644
> --- a/drivers/usb/storage/transport.c
> +++ b/drivers/usb/storage/transport.c
> @@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ static int usb_stor_msg_common(struct us_data *us, int timeout)
>   
>  	/* wait for the completion of the URB */
>  	timeleft = wait_for_completion_interruptible_timeout(
> -			&urb_done, timeout ? : MAX_SCHEDULE_TIMEOUT);
> +			&urb_done, timeout ? : 60 * HZ);

No, I am sorry, but there are SCSI commands that can run for more than
60 seconds. Formats, rewinding tapes, ...It seems to me you need to look
at the SCSI scanning code.

	Regards
		Oliver