[PATCH] wifi: mac80211: Fix deadlock in ieee80211_sta_ps_deliver_wakeup()

From: Remi Pommarel
Date: Wed May 29 2024 - 02:57:15 EST


The ieee80211_sta_ps_deliver_wakeup() function takes sta->ps_lock to
synchronizes with ieee80211_tx_h_unicast_ps_buf() which is called from
softirq context. However using only spin_lock() to get sta->ps_lock in
ieee80211_sta_ps_deliver_wakeup() does not prevent softirq to execute
on this same CPU, to run ieee80211_tx_h_unicast_ps_buf() and try to
take this same lock ending in deadlock. Below is an example of rcu stall
that arises in such situation.

rcu: INFO: rcu_sched self-detected stall on CPU
rcu: 2-....: (42413413 ticks this GP) idle=b154/1/0x4000000000000000 softirq=1763/1765 fqs=21206996
rcu: (t=42586894 jiffies g=2057 q=362405 ncpus=4)
CPU: 2 PID: 719 Comm: wpa_supplicant Tainted: G W 6.4.0-02158-g1b062f552873 #742
Hardware name: RPT (r1) (DT)
pstate: 00000005 (nzcv daif -PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
pc : queued_spin_lock_slowpath+0x58/0x2d0
lr : invoke_tx_handlers_early+0x5b4/0x5c0
sp : ffff00001ef64660
x29: ffff00001ef64660 x28: ffff000009bc1070 x27: ffff000009bc0ad8
x26: ffff000009bc0900 x25: ffff00001ef647a8 x24: 0000000000000000
x23: ffff000009bc0900 x22: ffff000009bc0900 x21: ffff00000ac0e000
x20: ffff00000a279e00 x19: ffff00001ef646e8 x18: 0000000000000000
x17: ffff800016468000 x16: ffff00001ef608c0 x15: 0010533c93f64f80
x14: 0010395c9faa3946 x13: 0000000000000000 x12: 00000000fa83b2da
x11: 000000012edeceea x10: ffff0000010fbe00 x9 : 0000000000895440
x8 : 000000000010533c x7 : ffff00000ad8b740 x6 : ffff00000c350880
x5 : 0000000000000007 x4 : 0000000000000001 x3 : 0000000000000000
x2 : 0000000000000000 x1 : 0000000000000001 x0 : ffff00000ac0e0e8
Call trace:
queued_spin_lock_slowpath+0x58/0x2d0
ieee80211_tx+0x80/0x12c
ieee80211_tx_pending+0x110/0x278
tasklet_action_common.constprop.0+0x10c/0x144
tasklet_action+0x20/0x28
_stext+0x11c/0x284
____do_softirq+0xc/0x14
call_on_irq_stack+0x24/0x34
do_softirq_own_stack+0x18/0x20
do_softirq+0x74/0x7c
__local_bh_enable_ip+0xa0/0xa4
_ieee80211_wake_txqs+0x3b0/0x4b8
__ieee80211_wake_queue+0x12c/0x168
ieee80211_add_pending_skbs+0xec/0x138
ieee80211_sta_ps_deliver_wakeup+0x2a4/0x480
ieee80211_mps_sta_status_update.part.0+0xd8/0x11c
ieee80211_mps_sta_status_update+0x18/0x24
sta_apply_parameters+0x3bc/0x4c0
ieee80211_change_station+0x1b8/0x2dc
nl80211_set_station+0x444/0x49c
genl_family_rcv_msg_doit.isra.0+0xa4/0xfc
genl_rcv_msg+0x1b0/0x244
netlink_rcv_skb+0x38/0x10c
genl_rcv+0x34/0x48
netlink_unicast+0x254/0x2bc
netlink_sendmsg+0x190/0x3b4
____sys_sendmsg+0x1e8/0x218
___sys_sendmsg+0x68/0x8c
__sys_sendmsg+0x44/0x84
__arm64_sys_sendmsg+0x20/0x28
do_el0_svc+0x6c/0xe8
el0_svc+0x14/0x48
el0t_64_sync_handler+0xb0/0xb4
el0t_64_sync+0x14c/0x150

Using spin_lock_bh()/spin_unlock_bh() instead prevents softirq to raise
on the same CPU that is holding the lock.

Fixes: 1d147bfa6429 ("mac80211: fix AP powersave TX vs. wakeup race")
Signed-off-by: Remi Pommarel <repk@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/mac80211/sta_info.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/mac80211/sta_info.c b/net/mac80211/sta_info.c
index da5fdd6f5c85..aa22f09e6d14 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/sta_info.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/sta_info.c
@@ -1724,7 +1724,7 @@ void ieee80211_sta_ps_deliver_wakeup(struct sta_info *sta)
skb_queue_head_init(&pending);

/* sync with ieee80211_tx_h_unicast_ps_buf */
- spin_lock(&sta->ps_lock);
+ spin_lock_bh(&sta->ps_lock);
/* Send all buffered frames to the station */
for (ac = 0; ac < IEEE80211_NUM_ACS; ac++) {
int count = skb_queue_len(&pending), tmp;
@@ -1753,7 +1753,7 @@ void ieee80211_sta_ps_deliver_wakeup(struct sta_info *sta)
*/
clear_sta_flag(sta, WLAN_STA_PSPOLL);
clear_sta_flag(sta, WLAN_STA_UAPSD);
- spin_unlock(&sta->ps_lock);
+ spin_unlock_bh(&sta->ps_lock);

atomic_dec(&ps->num_sta_ps);

--
2.40.0