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Commit 441bc1e3 authored by Hans de Goede's avatar Hans de Goede Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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staging: rtl8723bs: Fix access-point mode deadlock

commit 8f434708 upstream.

Commit 54659ca0 ("staging: rtl8723bs: remove possible deadlock when
disconnect (v2)") split the locking of pxmitpriv->lock vs sleep_q/lock
into 2 locks in attempt to fix a lockdep reported issue with the locking
order of the sta_hash_lock vs pxmitpriv->lock.

But in the end this turned out to not fully solve the sta_hash_lock issue
so commit a7ac783c ("staging: rtl8723bs: remove a second possible
deadlock") was added to fix this in another way.

The original fix was kept as it was still seen as a good thing to have,
but now it turns out that it creates a deadlock in access-point mode:

[Feb20 23:47] ======================================================
[  +0.074085] WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected
[  +0.074077] 5.16.0-1-amd64 #1 Tainted: G         C  E
[  +0.064710] ------------------------------------------------------
[  +0.074075] ksoftirqd/3/29 is trying to acquire lock:
[  +0.060542] ffffb8b30062ab00 (&pxmitpriv->lock){+.-.}-{2:2}, at: rtw_xmit_classifier+0x8a/0x140 [r8723bs]
[  +0.114921]
              but task is already holding lock:
[  +0.069908] ffffb8b3007ab704 (&psta->sleep_q.lock){+.-.}-{2:2}, at: wakeup_sta_to_xmit+0x3b/0x300 [r8723bs]
[  +0.116976]
              which lock already depends on the new lock.

[  +0.098037]
              the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is:
[  +0.089704]
              -> #1 (&psta->sleep_q.lock){+.-.}-{2:2}:
[  +0.077232]        _raw_spin_lock_bh+0x34/0x40
[  +0.053261]        xmitframe_enqueue_for_sleeping_sta+0xc1/0x2f0 [r8723bs]
[  +0.082572]        rtw_xmit+0x58b/0x940 [r8723bs]
[  +0.056528]        _rtw_xmit_entry+0xba/0x350 [r8723bs]
[  +0.062755]        dev_hard_start_xmit+0xf1/0x320
[  +0.056381]        sch_direct_xmit+0x9e/0x360
[  +0.052212]        __dev_queue_xmit+0xce4/0x1080
[  +0.055334]        ip6_finish_output2+0x18f/0x6e0
[  +0.056378]        ndisc_send_skb+0x2c8/0x870
[  +0.052209]        ndisc_send_ns+0xd3/0x210
[  +0.050130]        addrconf_dad_work+0x3df/0x5a0
[  +0.055338]        process_one_work+0x274/0x5a0
[  +0.054296]        worker_thread+0x52/0x3b0
[  +0.050124]        kthread+0x16c/0x1a0
[  +0.044925]        ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30
[  +0.049092]
              -> #0 (&pxmitpriv->lock){+.-.}-{2:2}:
[  +0.074101]        __lock_acquire+0x10f5/0x1d80
[  +0.054298]        lock_acquire+0xd7/0x300
[  +0.049088]        _raw_spin_lock_bh+0x34/0x40
[  +0.053248]        rtw_xmit_classifier+0x8a/0x140 [r8723bs]
[  +0.066949]        rtw_xmitframe_enqueue+0xa/0x20 [r8723bs]
[  +0.066946]        rtl8723bs_hal_xmitframe_enqueue+0x14/0x50 [r8723bs]
[  +0.078386]        wakeup_sta_to_xmit+0xa6/0x300 [r8723bs]
[  +0.065903]        rtw_recv_entry+0xe36/0x1160 [r8723bs]
[  +0.063809]        rtl8723bs_recv_tasklet+0x349/0x6c0 [r8723bs]
[  +0.071093]        tasklet_action_common.constprop.0+0xe5/0x110
[  +0.070966]        __do_softirq+0x16f/0x50a
[  +0.050134]        __irq_exit_rcu+0xeb/0x140
[  +0.051172]        irq_exit_rcu+0xa/0x20
[  +0.047006]        common_interrupt+0xb8/0xd0
[  +0.052214]        asm_common_interrupt+0x1e/0x40
[  +0.056381]        finish_task_switch.isra.0+0x100/0x3a0
[  +0.063670]        __schedule+0x3ad/0xd20
[  +0.048047]        schedule+0x4e/0xc0
[  +0.043880]        smpboot_thread_fn+0xc4/0x220
[  +0.054298]        kthread+0x16c/0x1a0
[  +0.044922]        ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30
[  +0.049088]
              other info that might help us debug this:

[  +0.095950]  Possible unsafe locking scenario:

[  +0.070952]        CPU0                    CPU1
[  +0.054282]        ----                    ----
[  +0.054285]   lock(&psta->sleep_q.lock);
[  +0.047004]                                lock(&pxmitpriv->lock);
[  +0.074082]                                lock(&psta->sleep_q.lock);
[  +0.077209]   lock(&pxmitpriv->lock);
[  +0.043873]
               *** DEADLOCK ***

[  +0.070950] 1 lock held by ksoftirqd/3/29:
[  +0.049082]  #0: ffffb8b3007ab704 (&psta->sleep_q.lock){+.-.}-{2:2}, at: wakeup_sta_to_xmit+0x3b/0x300 [r8723bs]

Analysis shows that in hindsight the splitting of the lock was not
a good idea, so revert this to fix the access-point mode deadlock.

Note this is a straight-forward revert done with git revert, the commented
out "/* spin_lock_bh(&psta_bmc->sleep_q.lock); */" lines were part of the
code before the reverted changes.

Fixes: 54659ca0

 ("staging: rtl8723bs: remove possible deadlock when disconnect (v2)")
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Fabio Aiuto <fabioaiuto83@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarHans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
BugLink: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=215542
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220302101637.26542-1-hdegoede@redhat.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent ca62747b
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