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

[Eugen Hristev]

On 8/6/23 06:25, Duoming Zhou wrote:
> 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;
>   }


Reviewed-by: Eugen Hristev <eugen.hristev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>