[PATCH 2/2] PM: Fix potential issue with failing asynchronous suspend

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Mon Sep 20 2010 - 14:02:18 EST


From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx>
Subject: PM: Fix potential issue with failing asynchronous suspend

There is a potential issue with the asynchronous suspend code that
a device driver suspending asynchronously may not notice that it
should back off. There are two failing scenarions, (1) when the
driver is waiting for a driver suspending synchronously to complete
and that second driver returns error code, in which case async_error
won't be set and the waiting driver will continue suspending and (2)
after the driver has called device_pm_wait_for_dev() and the waited
for driver returns error code, in which case the caller of
device_pm_wait_for_dev() will not know that there was an error and
will continue suspending.

To fix this issue make __device_suspend() set async_error, so
async_suspend() doesn't need to set it any more, and make
device_pm_wait_for_dev() return async_error, so that its callers
can check whether or not they should continue suspending.

No more changes are necessary, since device_pm_wait_for_dev() in
not used by any drivers' suspend routines.

Reported-by: Colin Cross <ccross@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx>
---
drivers/base/power/main.c | 15 +++++++++------
include/linux/pm.h | 7 +++++--
2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6/drivers/base/power/main.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/base/power/main.c
+++ linux-2.6/drivers/base/power/main.c
@@ -51,6 +51,8 @@ static pm_message_t pm_transition;
*/
static bool transition_started;

+static int async_error;
+
/**
* device_pm_init - Initialize the PM-related part of a device object.
* @dev: Device object being initialized.
@@ -602,6 +604,7 @@ static void dpm_resume(pm_message_t stat
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&list);
mutex_lock(&dpm_list_mtx);
pm_transition = state;
+ async_error = 0;

list_for_each_entry(dev, &dpm_list, power.entry) {
if (dev->power.status < DPM_OFF)
@@ -831,8 +834,6 @@ static int legacy_suspend(struct device
return error;
}

-static int async_error;
-
/**
* device_suspend - Execute "suspend" callbacks for given device.
* @dev: Device to handle.
@@ -887,6 +888,9 @@ static int __device_suspend(struct devic
device_unlock(dev);
complete_all(&dev->power.completion);

+ if (error)
+ async_error = error;
+
return error;
}

@@ -896,10 +900,8 @@ static void async_suspend(void *data, as
int error;

error = __device_suspend(dev, pm_transition, true);
- if (error) {
+ if (error)
pm_dev_err(dev, pm_transition, " async", error);
- async_error = error;
- }

put_device(dev);
}
@@ -1087,8 +1089,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__suspend_report_resul
* @dev: Device to wait for.
* @subordinate: Device that needs to wait for @dev.
*/
-void device_pm_wait_for_dev(struct device *subordinate, struct device *dev)
+int device_pm_wait_for_dev(struct device *subordinate, struct device *dev)
{
dpm_wait(dev, subordinate->power.async_suspend);
+ return async_error;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(device_pm_wait_for_dev);
Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/pm.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/pm.h
+++ linux-2.6/include/linux/pm.h
@@ -559,7 +559,7 @@ extern void __suspend_report_result(cons
__suspend_report_result(__func__, fn, ret); \
} while (0)

-extern void device_pm_wait_for_dev(struct device *sub, struct device *dev);
+extern int device_pm_wait_for_dev(struct device *sub, struct device *dev);
#else /* !CONFIG_PM_SLEEP */

#define device_pm_lock() do {} while (0)
@@ -572,7 +572,10 @@ static inline int dpm_suspend_start(pm_m

#define suspend_report_result(fn, ret) do {} while (0)

-static inline void device_pm_wait_for_dev(struct device *a, struct device *b) {}
+static inline int device_pm_wait_for_dev(struct device *a, struct device *b)
+{
+ return 0;
+}
#endif /* !CONFIG_PM_SLEEP */

/* How to reorder dpm_list after device_move() */

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