[PATCH] dmaengine: mediatek: Fix deadlock caused by synchronize_irq()

From: Duoming Zhou
Date: Sat Aug 05 2023 - 23:25:47 EST


The synchronize_irq(c->irq) will not return until the IRQ handler
mtk_uart_apdma_irq_handler() is completed. If the synchronize_irq()
holds a spin_lock and waits the IRQ handler to complete, but the
IRQ handler also needs the same spin_lock. The deadlock will happen.
The process is shown below:

cpu0 cpu1
mtk_uart_apdma_device_pause() | mtk_uart_apdma_irq_handler()
spin_lock_irqsave() |
| spin_lock_irqsave()
//hold the lock to wait |
synchronize_irq() |

This patch reorders the synchronize_irq(c->irq) outside the spin_lock
in order to mitigate the bug.

Fixes: 9135408c3ace ("dmaengine: mediatek: Add MediaTek UART APDMA support")
Signed-off-by: Duoming Zhou <duoming@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/dma/mediatek/mtk-uart-apdma.c | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/dma/mediatek/mtk-uart-apdma.c b/drivers/dma/mediatek/mtk-uart-apdma.c
index a1517ef1f4a..0acf6a92a4a 100644
--- a/drivers/dma/mediatek/mtk-uart-apdma.c
+++ b/drivers/dma/mediatek/mtk-uart-apdma.c
@@ -451,9 +451,8 @@ static int mtk_uart_apdma_device_pause(struct dma_chan *chan)
mtk_uart_apdma_write(c, VFF_EN, VFF_EN_CLR_B);
mtk_uart_apdma_write(c, VFF_INT_EN, VFF_INT_EN_CLR_B);

- synchronize_irq(c->irq);
-
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&c->vc.lock, flags);
+ synchronize_irq(c->irq);

return 0;
}
--
2.17.1