Re: [PATCH] mwifiex: pcie: skip cancel_work_sync() on reset failure path

From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
To: Tsuchiya Yuto <kitakar@gmail.com>
Cc: Amitkumar Karwar <amitkarwar@gmail.com>,
	Ganapathi Bhat <ganapathi.bhat@nxp.com>,
	Xinming Hu <huxinming820@gmail.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Maximilian Luz <luzmaximilian@gmail.com>,
	Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@intel.com>,
	verdre@v0yd.nl, Tsuchiya Yuto <kitakar@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mwifiex: pcie: skip cancel_work_sync() on reset failure path
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2020 18:51:39 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201110185139.D143DC433C6@smtp.codeaurora.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201028142346.18355-1-kitakar@gmail.com>

Tsuchiya Yuto <kitakar@gmail.com> wrote:

> If a reset is performed, but even the reset fails for some reasons (e.g.,
> on Surface devices, the fw reset requires another quirks),
> cancel_work_sync() hangs in mwifiex_cleanup_pcie().
> 
>     # firmware went into a bad state
>     [...]
>     [ 1608.281690] mwifiex_pcie 0000:03:00.0: info: shutdown mwifiex...
>     [ 1608.282724] mwifiex_pcie 0000:03:00.0: rx_pending=0, tx_pending=1,	cmd_pending=0
>     [ 1608.292400] mwifiex_pcie 0000:03:00.0: PREP_CMD: card is removed
>     [ 1608.292405] mwifiex_pcie 0000:03:00.0: PREP_CMD: card is removed
>     # reset performed after firmware went into a bad state
>     [ 1609.394320] mwifiex_pcie 0000:03:00.0: WLAN FW already running! Skip FW dnld
>     [ 1609.394335] mwifiex_pcie 0000:03:00.0: WLAN FW is active
>     # but even the reset failed
>     [ 1619.499049] mwifiex_pcie 0000:03:00.0: mwifiex_cmd_timeout_func: Timeout cmd id = 0xfa, act = 0xe000
>     [ 1619.499094] mwifiex_pcie 0000:03:00.0: num_data_h2c_failure = 0
>     [ 1619.499103] mwifiex_pcie 0000:03:00.0: num_cmd_h2c_failure = 0
>     [ 1619.499110] mwifiex_pcie 0000:03:00.0: is_cmd_timedout = 1
>     [ 1619.499117] mwifiex_pcie 0000:03:00.0: num_tx_timeout = 0
>     [ 1619.499124] mwifiex_pcie 0000:03:00.0: last_cmd_index = 0
>     [ 1619.499133] mwifiex_pcie 0000:03:00.0: last_cmd_id: fa 00 07 01 07 01 07 01 07 01
>     [ 1619.499140] mwifiex_pcie 0000:03:00.0: last_cmd_act: 00 e0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
>     [ 1619.499147] mwifiex_pcie 0000:03:00.0: last_cmd_resp_index = 3
>     [ 1619.499155] mwifiex_pcie 0000:03:00.0: last_cmd_resp_id: 07 81 07 81 07 81 07 81 07 81
>     [ 1619.499162] mwifiex_pcie 0000:03:00.0: last_event_index = 2
>     [ 1619.499169] mwifiex_pcie 0000:03:00.0: last_event: 58 00 58 00 58 00 58 00 58 00
>     [ 1619.499177] mwifiex_pcie 0000:03:00.0: data_sent=0 cmd_sent=1
>     [ 1619.499185] mwifiex_pcie 0000:03:00.0: ps_mode=0 ps_state=0
>     [ 1619.499215] mwifiex_pcie 0000:03:00.0: info: _mwifiex_fw_dpc: unregister device
>     # mwifiex_pcie_work hang happening
>     [ 1823.233923] INFO: task kworker/3:1:44 blocked for more than 122 seconds.
>     [ 1823.233932]       Tainted: G        WC OE     5.10.0-rc1-1-mainline #1
>     [ 1823.233935] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
>     [ 1823.233940] task:kworker/3:1     state:D stack:    0 pid:   44 ppid:     2 flags:0x00004000
>     [ 1823.233960] Workqueue: events mwifiex_pcie_work [mwifiex_pcie]
>     [ 1823.233965] Call Trace:
>     [ 1823.233981]  __schedule+0x292/0x820
>     [ 1823.233990]  schedule+0x45/0xe0
>     [ 1823.233995]  schedule_timeout+0x11c/0x160
>     [ 1823.234003]  wait_for_completion+0x9e/0x100
>     [ 1823.234012]  __flush_work.isra.0+0x156/0x210
>     [ 1823.234018]  ? flush_workqueue_prep_pwqs+0x130/0x130
>     [ 1823.234026]  __cancel_work_timer+0x11e/0x1a0
>     [ 1823.234035]  mwifiex_cleanup_pcie+0x28/0xd0 [mwifiex_pcie]
>     [ 1823.234049]  mwifiex_free_adapter+0x24/0xe0 [mwifiex]
>     [ 1823.234060]  _mwifiex_fw_dpc+0x294/0x560 [mwifiex]
>     [ 1823.234074]  mwifiex_reinit_sw+0x15d/0x300 [mwifiex]
>     [ 1823.234080]  mwifiex_pcie_reset_done+0x50/0x80 [mwifiex_pcie]
>     [ 1823.234087]  pci_try_reset_function+0x5c/0x90
>     [ 1823.234094]  process_one_work+0x1d6/0x3a0
>     [ 1823.234100]  worker_thread+0x4d/0x3d0
>     [ 1823.234107]  ? rescuer_thread+0x410/0x410
>     [ 1823.234112]  kthread+0x142/0x160
>     [ 1823.234117]  ? __kthread_bind_mask+0x60/0x60
>     [ 1823.234124]  ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
>     [...]
> 
> This is a deadlock caused by calling cancel_work_sync() in
> mwifiex_cleanup_pcie():
> 
> - Device resets are done via mwifiex_pcie_card_reset()
> - which schedules card->work to call mwifiex_pcie_card_reset_work()
> - which calls pci_try_reset_function().
> - This leads to mwifiex_pcie_reset_done() be called on the same workqueue,
>   which in turn calls
> - mwifiex_reinit_sw() and that calls
> - _mwifiex_fw_dpc().
> 
> The problem is now that _mwifiex_fw_dpc() calls mwifiex_free_adapter()
> in case firmware initialization fails. That ends up calling
> mwifiex_cleanup_pcie().
> 
> Note that all those calls are still running on the workqueue. So when
> mwifiex_cleanup_pcie() now calls cancel_work_sync(), it's really waiting
> on itself to complete, causing a deadlock.
> 
> This commit fixes the deadlock by skipping cancel_work_sync() on a reset
> failure path.
> 
> After this commit, when reset fails, the following output is
> expected to be shown:
> 
>     kernel: mwifiex_pcie 0000:03:00.0: info: _mwifiex_fw_dpc: unregister device
>     kernel: mwifiex: Failed to bring up adapter: -5
>     kernel: mwifiex_pcie 0000:03:00.0: reinit failed: -5
> 
> To reproduce this issue, for example, try putting the root port of wifi
> into D3 (replace "00:1d.3" with your setup).
> 
>     # put into D3 (root port)
>     sudo setpci -v -s 00:1d.3 CAP_PM+4.b=0b
> 
> Cc: Maximilian Luz <luzmaximilian@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Tsuchiya Yuto <kitakar@gmail.com>

Patch applied to wireless-drivers-next.git, thanks.

4add4d988f95 mwifiex: pcie: skip cancel_work_sync() on reset failure path

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