Re: [PATCH V2] usb: gadget: f_fs: don't free buffer prematurely

[John Stultz]

On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 9:52 AM Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 20 Mar 2019, John Stultz wrote:
>
> > Hey Fei,
> >   So while this patch does resolve the issues I was seeing with
> > mainline kernels and recent changes to adbd, Josh pointed out that it
> > wouldn't resolve the issues I was seeing with older kernels which is
> > slightly different (but still related to aio usage).
> >
> > On the older kernels I'm hitting scheduling while atomic on reboot,
> > which seems to be due to ffs_aio_cancel() taking a spinlock then
> > calling usb_ep_dequeue() which might sleep.
> >
> > It seems a fix for this was tried earlier with d52e4d0c0c428 ("usb:
> > gadget: ffs: Fix BUG when userland exits with submitted AIO
> > transfers") which was then reverted by a9c859033f6e.
> >
> > Elsewhere it seems the ffs driver takes effort to drop any locks
> > before calling usb_ep_dequeue(), so this seems like that should be
> > addressed, but it also seems like recent change to the dwc3 driver has
> > been made to avoid sleeping in that path (see fec9095bdef4 ("usb:
> > dwc3: gadget: remove wait_end_transfer")), which may be why I'm not
> > seeing the problem with mainline (and your patch here, of coarse).
> > But that also doesn't clarify if its still a potential issue w/
> > non-dwc3 platforms.
> >
> > So for older kernels, do you have a suggestion of which approach is
> > advised?  Does usb_ep_dequeue need to avoid sleeping or do we need to
> > rework the ffs_aio_cancel logic?
>
> usb_ep_dequeue can be called in interrupt context, meaning it is never
> allowed to sleep.  This is mentioned in the kerneldoc:

Thanks for the clarification! Sorry I didn't see the kernel doc!
-john