Re: [PATCH] soc: qcom: qmi: Signal the txn completion after releasing the mutex
From: Chris Lew
Date: Mon Aug 07 2023 - 16:27:09 EST
On 8/2/2023 1:07 AM, Sricharan Ramabadhran wrote:
On 8/2/2023 5:11 AM, Chris Lew wrote:
On 8/1/2023 4:13 AM, Sricharan Ramabadhran wrote:
Hi,
On 8/1/2023 6:06 AM, Chris Lew wrote:
On 7/31/2023 8:19 AM, Pavan Kondeti wrote:
On Mon, Jul 31, 2023 at 06:37:55PM +0530, Praveenkumar I wrote:
txn is in #1 stack
Worker #1 Worker #2
******** *********
qmi_txn_wait(txn) qmi_handle_message
| |
| |
wait_for_complete(txn->complete) ....
| mutex_lock(txn->lock)
| |
mutex_lock(txn->lock) |
..... complete(txn->lock)
| mutex_unlock(txn->lock)
|
mutex_unlock(txn->lock)
In this case above, while #2 is doing the mutex_unlock(txn->lock),
in between releasing lock and doing other lock related wakeup, #2
gets
scheduled out. As a result #1, acquires the lock, unlocks, also
frees the txn also (where the lock resides)
Now #2, gets scheduled again and tries to do the rest of the lock
related wakeup, but lock itself is invalid because txn itself is
gone.
Fixing this, by doing the mutex_unlock(txn->lock) first and then
complete(txn->lock) in #2
Fixes: 3830d0771ef6 ("soc: qcom: Introduce QMI helpers")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Sricharan Ramabadhran <quic_srichara@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Praveenkumar I <quic_ipkumar@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/soc/qcom/qmi_interface.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/soc/qcom/qmi_interface.c
b/drivers/soc/qcom/qmi_interface.c
index 78d7361fdcf2..92e29db97359 100644
--- a/drivers/soc/qcom/qmi_interface.c
+++ b/drivers/soc/qcom/qmi_interface.c
@@ -505,12 +505,13 @@ static void qmi_handle_message(struct
qmi_handle *qmi,
pr_err("failed to decode incoming message\n");
txn->result = ret;
- complete(&txn->completion);
} else {
qmi_invoke_handler(qmi, sq, txn, buf, len);
}
mutex_unlock(&txn->lock);
+ if (txn->dest && txn->ei)
+ complete(&txn->completion);
} else {
/* Create a txn based on the txn_id of the incoming
message */
memset(&tmp_txn, 0, sizeof(tmp_txn));
What happens in a remote scenario where the waiter gets timed out
at the
very same time you are releasing the mutex but before calling
complete()? The caller might end up freeing txn structure and it
results
in the same issue you are currently facing.
Thanks,
Pavan
I think downstream we had various attempts of moving the signal
around trying to avoid this, but hit scenarios like the one Pavan
described.
We eventually settled on removing the txn->lock and treating the
qmi->txn_lock as a big lock. This remedied the issue where the
txn->lock goes out of scope since qmi->txn_lock is tied to the qmi
handle.
ok agree. Using qmi->txn_lock looks a better approach.
That said, this race between mutex lock/unlock looks odd though.
If i remember we saw the issue only with CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC.
Was that the same case for you guys as well ?
Otherwise, ideally handling all members of the object inside lock
should be the right solution (ie moving the wait_for_complete(txn)
inside the mutex_lock in qmi_txn_wait. That should take care of the
scenario that Pavan described too.
No, we saw the issue even without CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC. The
callstacks always ended up showing that the mutex could be acquired
before mutex_unlock() completely finished.
It didn't seem wise to poke at the mutex implementation so we went
with the txn_lock.
ok, that's strange. That effectively means, mutex_lock/unlock are not
working/protecting the critical section ? Then qmi->txn_lock also would
result in a similar issue ? I guess, in this case, during issue, txn
(which holds the lock) was going out of context, while still the txn
was in used in other thread. That effectively shows up a mutex issue
maybe. While the downstream change to use qmi->txn_lock would fix the
mutex issue, will have to check if the txn object itself is protected
correctly.
Looked into this a bit more, I think the mutex was going into
__mutex_unlock_slowpath because there is a waiter on the txn->lock. In
the slow path there are two sections of the code, one where we release
the owner and another where we notify waiters. It doesn't look like
there is anything to prevent preemption between the two sections.
/kernel/locking/mutex.c
static noinline void __sched __mutex_unlock_slowpath(struct mutex *lock,
unsigned long ip)
{
...
/*
* Release the lock before (potentially) taking the spinlock such that
* other contenders can get on with things ASAP.
*
* Except when HANDOFF, in that case we must not clear the owner field,
* but instead set it to the top waiter.
*/
A mutex is able to guarantee mutual exclusion on the critical sections
that we enclose in locks. It is not able to guarantee the lifetime of a
object, that would have to be done through a kref like mechanism or code
organization. In this case relying on qmi->txn_lock() would be relying
on code organization to guarantee it won't go out of scope/be freed.
Thanks,
Chris
Regards,
Sricharan