driver core: fix deadlock in __device_attach
authorZhang Wensheng <zhangwensheng5@huawei.com>
Wed, 18 May 2022 07:45:16 +0000 (15:45 +0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 19 May 2022 17:37:08 +0000 (19:37 +0200)
commitb232b02bf3c205b13a26dcec08e53baddd8e59ed
tree4f9c4af25e3750f0f33a5f2cbf1da44c8343cc11
parent1a702dc88e150487c9c173a249b3d236498b9183
driver core: fix deadlock in __device_attach

In __device_attach function, The lock holding logic is as follows:
...
__device_attach
device_lock(dev)      // get lock dev
  async_schedule_dev(__device_attach_async_helper, dev); // func
    async_schedule_node
      async_schedule_node_domain(func)
        entry = kzalloc(sizeof(struct async_entry), GFP_ATOMIC);
/* when fail or work limit, sync to execute func, but
   __device_attach_async_helper will get lock dev as
   well, which will lead to A-A deadlock.  */
if (!entry || atomic_read(&entry_count) > MAX_WORK) {
  func;
else
  queue_work_node(node, system_unbound_wq, &entry->work)
  device_unlock(dev)

As shown above, when it is allowed to do async probes, because of
out of memory or work limit, async work is not allowed, to do
sync execute instead. it will lead to A-A deadlock because of
__device_attach_async_helper getting lock dev.

To fix the deadlock, move the async_schedule_dev outside device_lock,
as we can see, in async_schedule_node_domain, the parameter of
queue_work_node is system_unbound_wq, so it can accept concurrent
operations. which will also not change the code logic, and will
not lead to deadlock.

Fixes: 765230b5f084 ("driver-core: add asynchronous probing support for drivers")
Signed-off-by: Zhang Wensheng <zhangwensheng5@huawei.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220518074516.1225580-1-zhangwensheng5@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/base/dd.c