Re: 29-rc-mmotm - HID/USB wedge w/ WARNING: at kernel/workqueue.c:371

From: Oliver Neukum
Date: Wed Mar 18 2009 - 03:44:19 EST


Am Mittwoch 18 MÃrz 2009 04:26:42 schrieb Lai Jiangshan:
> Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Wed, 18 Mar 2009 10:29:40 +0800 Lai Jiangshan <laijs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > wrote:
> >
> >
> > static void run_workqueue(struct cpu_workqueue_struct *cwq)
> > {
> > spin_lock_irq(&cwq->lock);
> > cwq->run_depth++;
> > if (cwq->run_depth > 3) {
> > /* morton gets to eat his hat */
> > printk("%s: recursion depth exceeded: %d\n",
> > __func__, cwq->run_depth);
> > dump_stack();
> > }
> >
> > That was added five or six years ago, and I never ever got to eat my hat.
>
> If Valdis.Kletnieks let lockdep work, he will see the complain
> from lockdep at first.
>
> >> If it's hard for you avoid flush_scheduled_work() in
> >> keventd's work fuction by other fix, you can create
> >> another workqueue to handle your works, IMO.
> >
> > Why do we need to change anything here? No known bugs were fixed, and
> > some new ones were added.
>
> I prefer the code which has no known bugs and no known potential bugs.
>
> I defend myself:
> I did not add a new bug as you said, it's the new code hid_cease_io()
> adds a new unsafe usage of workqueue.

Very well, here's a patch.
Please test.

Regards
Oliver
diff --git a/drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-core.c b/drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-core.c
index bc017cd..4306cb1 100644
--- a/drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-core.c
+++ b/drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-core.c
@@ -1210,7 +1210,6 @@ static void hid_cease_io(struct usbhid_device *usbhid)
usb_kill_urb(usbhid->urbin);
usb_kill_urb(usbhid->urbctrl);
usb_kill_urb(usbhid->urbout);
- flush_scheduled_work();
}

/* Treat USB reset pretty much the same as suspend/resume */
@@ -1222,6 +1221,7 @@ static int hid_pre_reset(struct usb_interface *intf)
spin_lock_irq(&usbhid->lock);
set_bit(HID_RESET_PENDING, &usbhid->iofl);
spin_unlock_irq(&usbhid->lock);
+ cancel_work_sync(&usbhid->restart_work);
hid_cease_io(usbhid);

return 0;

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