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staging: usbip: avoid deadlock in vhci_device_unlink_cleanup()
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Almost all of usbip assumes that the_controller->lock is acquired
before vdev->priv_lock. The exception is in
vhci_device_unlink_cleanup(), where locks are acquired in the
reverse order. This leads to occasional deadlocks.

Fixing this is a bit fiddly, as the_controller->lock can't be held
when calling usb_hcd_unlink_urb_from_ep() in the middle of the list
traversal. As I can't rule out concurrent callers to this function
(perhaps it is safe?), the code here becomes slightly uglier - when
locks are dropped in the middle so the list may have emptied itself
(not even list_for_each_entry_safe is safe here).

Signed-off-by: Bernard Blackham <b-linuxgit@largestprime.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Bernard Blackham authored and Greg Kroah-Hartman committed Sep 6, 2012
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16 changes: 13 additions & 3 deletions drivers/staging/usbip/vhci_hcd.c
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Expand Up @@ -749,6 +749,7 @@ static void vhci_device_unlink_cleanup(struct vhci_device *vdev)
{
struct vhci_unlink *unlink, *tmp;

spin_lock(&the_controller->lock);
spin_lock(&vdev->priv_lock);

list_for_each_entry_safe(unlink, tmp, &vdev->unlink_tx, list) {
Expand All @@ -757,9 +758,12 @@ static void vhci_device_unlink_cleanup(struct vhci_device *vdev)
kfree(unlink);
}

list_for_each_entry_safe(unlink, tmp, &vdev->unlink_rx, list) {
while (!list_empty(&vdev->unlink_rx)) {
struct urb *urb;

unlink = list_first_entry(&vdev->unlink_rx, struct vhci_unlink,
list);

/* give back URB of unanswered unlink request */
pr_info("unlink cleanup rx %lu\n", unlink->unlink_seqnum);

Expand All @@ -774,18 +778,24 @@ static void vhci_device_unlink_cleanup(struct vhci_device *vdev)

urb->status = -ENODEV;

spin_lock(&the_controller->lock);
usb_hcd_unlink_urb_from_ep(vhci_to_hcd(the_controller), urb);

list_del(&unlink->list);

spin_unlock(&vdev->priv_lock);
spin_unlock(&the_controller->lock);

usb_hcd_giveback_urb(vhci_to_hcd(the_controller), urb,
urb->status);

list_del(&unlink->list);
spin_lock(&the_controller->lock);
spin_lock(&vdev->priv_lock);

kfree(unlink);
}

spin_unlock(&vdev->priv_lock);
spin_unlock(&the_controller->lock);
}

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