Re: [PATCH] usb: xhci: tegra: fix sleep in atomic call

From: gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Mon Mar 20 2023 - 06:03:12 EST


On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 09:54:28AM +0000, Haotien Hsu wrote:
> On Mon, 2023-03-20 at 09:09 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > External email: Use caution opening links or attachments
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 03:40:28PM +0800, Haotien Hsu wrote:
> > > From: Wayne Chang <waynec@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > When we set the OTG port to Host mode, we observed the following
> > > splat:
> > > [ 167.057718] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context
> > > at
> > > include/linux/sched/mm.h:229
> > > [ 167.057872] Workqueue: events tegra_xusb_usb_phy_work
> > > [ 167.057954] Call trace:
> > > [ 167.057962] dump_backtrace+0x0/0x210
> > > [ 167.057996] show_stack+0x30/0x50
> > > [ 167.058020] dump_stack_lvl+0x64/0x84
> > > [ 167.058065] dump_stack+0x14/0x34
> > > [ 167.058100] __might_resched+0x144/0x180
> > > [ 167.058140] __might_sleep+0x64/0xd0
> > > [ 167.058171] slab_pre_alloc_hook.constprop.0+0xa8/0x110
> > > [ 167.058202] __kmalloc_track_caller+0x74/0x2b0
> > > [ 167.058233] kvasprintf+0xa4/0x190
> > > [ 167.058261] kasprintf+0x58/0x90
> > > [ 167.058285] tegra_xusb_find_port_node.isra.0+0x58/0xd0
> > > [ 167.058334] tegra_xusb_find_port+0x38/0xa0
> > > [ 167.058380] tegra_xusb_padctl_get_usb3_companion+0x38/0xd0
> > > [ 167.058430] tegra_xhci_id_notify+0x8c/0x1e0
> > > [ 167.058473] notifier_call_chain+0x88/0x100
> > > [ 167.058506] atomic_notifier_call_chain+0x44/0x70
> > > [ 167.058537] tegra_xusb_usb_phy_work+0x60/0xd0
> > > [ 167.058581] process_one_work+0x1dc/0x4c0
> > > [ 167.058618] worker_thread+0x54/0x410
> > > [ 167.058650] kthread+0x188/0x1b0
> > > [ 167.058672] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20
> > >
> > > The function tegra_xusb_padctl_get_usb3_companion eventually calls
> > > tegra_xusb_find_port and this in turn calls kasprintf which might
> > > sleep
> > > and so cannot be called from an atomic context.
> > >
> > > Fix this by moving the call to tegra_xusb_padctl_get_usb3_companion
> > > to
> > > the tegra_xhci_id_work function where it is really needed.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Wayne Chang <waynec@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Signed-off-by: Haotien Hsu <haotienh@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > What commit id does this fix? And does it need to be backported to
> > older kernels?
> >
>
> Sorry for missing "Fixes:" and "Cc: stable" lines.

What should be listed for the Fixes line? Please add it when you
resubmit it.

thanks,

greg k-h