Re: [syzbot] INFO: task hung in port100_probe

[Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@canonical.com>]

On 22/07/2021 16:47, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 22, 2021 at 04:20:10PM +0200, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>> On 22/06/2021 17:43, syzbot wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> syzbot found the following issue on:
>>>
>>> HEAD commit:    fd0aa1a4 Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub..
>>> git tree:       upstream
>>> console output: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=13e1500c300000
>>> kernel config:  https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=7ca96a2d153c74b0
>>> dashboard link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=abd2e0dafb481b621869
>>> syz repro:      https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/repro.syz?x=1792e284300000
>>> C reproducer:   https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/repro.c?x=13ad9d48300000
>>>
>>> IMPORTANT: if you fix the issue, please add the following tag to the commit:
>>> Reported-by: syzbot+abd2e0dafb481b621869@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
>>>
>>> INFO: task kworker/0:1:7 blocked for more than 143 seconds.
>>>       Not tainted 5.13.0-rc6-syzkaller #0
>>> "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
>>> task:kworker/0:1     state:D stack:25584 pid:    7 ppid:     2 flags:0x00004000
>>> Workqueue: usb_hub_wq hub_event
>>> Call Trace:
>>>  context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:4339 [inline]
>>>  __schedule+0x916/0x23e0 kernel/sched/core.c:5147
>>>  schedule+0xcf/0x270 kernel/sched/core.c:5226
>>>  schedule_timeout+0x1db/0x250 kernel/time/timer.c:1868
>>>  do_wait_for_common kernel/sched/completion.c:85 [inline]
>>>  __wait_for_common kernel/sched/completion.c:106 [inline]
>>>  wait_for_common kernel/sched/completion.c:117 [inline]
>>>  wait_for_completion+0x168/0x270 kernel/sched/completion.c:138
>>>  port100_send_cmd_sync drivers/nfc/port100.c:923 [inline]
>>>  port100_get_command_type_mask drivers/nfc/port100.c:1008 [inline]
>>>  port100_probe+0x9e4/0x1340 drivers/nfc/port100.c:1554
>>>  usb_probe_interface+0x315/0x7f0 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:396
> ...
> 
>> Cc: Thierry, Alan, Andrey,
>>
>> The issue is reproducible immediately on QEMU instance with
>> USB_DUMMY_HCD and USB_RAW_GADGET. I don't know about real port100 NFC
>> device.
>>
>> I spent some time looking into this and have no clue, except that it
>> looks like an effect of a race condition.
>>
>> 1. When using syskaller reproducer against one USB device (In the C
>> reproducer change the loop in main() to use procid=0) - issue does not
>> happen.
>>
>> 2. With two threads or more talking to separate Dummy USB devices, the
>> issue appears. The more of them, the better...
>>
>> 3. The reported problem is in missing complete. The correct flow is like:
>> port100_probe()
>> port100_get_command_type_mask()
>> port100_send_cmd_sync()
>> port100_send_cmd_async()
>> port100_submit_urb_for_ack()
>> port100_send_complete()
>> [   63.363863] port100 2-1:0.0: NFC: Urb failure (status -71)
>> port100_recv_ack()
>> [   63.369942] port100 2-1:0.0: NFC: Urb failure (status -71)
>>
>> and schedule_work() which completes and unblocks port100_send_cmd_sync
>>
>> However in the failing case (hung task) the port100_recv_ack() is never
>> called. It looks like USB core / HCD / gadget does not send the Ack/URB
>> complete.
>>
>> I don't know why. The port100 NFC driver code looks OK, except it is not
>> prepared for missing ack/urb so it waits indefinitely. I could try to
>> convert it to wait_for_completion_timeout() but it won't be trivial and
>> more important - I am not sure if this is the problem. Somehow the ACK
>> with Urb failure is not sent back to the port100 device. Therefore I am
>> guessing that the race condition is somwhere in USB stack, not in
>> port100 driver.
>>
>> The lockdep and other testing tools did not find anything here.
>>
>> Anyone hints where the issue could be?
> 
> Here's what I wrote earlier: "It looks like the problem stems from the fact 
> that port100_send_frame_async() submits two URBs, but 
> port100_send_cmd_sync() only waits for one of them to complete.  The other 
> URB may then still be active when the driver tries to reuse it."

I see now you replied this to earlier syzbot report about "URB submitted
while active". Here is a slightly different issue - hung task on waiting
for completion coming from device ack.

However maybe these are both similar or at least come from similar root
cause in the driver.

> 
> Of course, there may be more than one problem, so we may not be talking 
> about the same thing.
> 
> Does that help at all?

Thanks, it gives me some ideas to look into although I spent already too
much time on this old driver. I doubt it has any users so maybe better
to mark it as BROKEN...


Best regards,
Krzysztof