Re: [PATCH 1/2] usb: gadget: r8a66597: Fix two possible sleep-in-atomic-context bugs in init_controller()

From: Robert Jarzmik
Date: Thu Jun 21 2018 - 05:06:10 EST


Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> The driver may sleep with holding a spinlock.
> The function call paths (from bottom to top) in Linux-4.16.7 are:
>
> [FUNC] msleep
> drivers/usb/gadget/udc/r8a66597-udc.c, 839:
> msleep in init_controller
> drivers/usb/gadget/udc/r8a66597-udc.c, 96:
> init_controller in r8a66597_usb_disconnect
> drivers/usb/gadget/udc/r8a66597-udc.c, 93:
> spin_lock in r8a66597_usb_disconnect

That should not happen...

If think the issue you have is that your usb_connect() and usb_disconnect() are
called from interrupt context. I think the proper fix, as what is done in most
udc phys, is to schedule a workqueue, see drivers/usb/phy/phy-gpio-vbus-usb.c,
gpio_vbus_data.vbus.

Cheers.

--
Robert