[3.11.y.z extended stable] Patch "PM / sleep: Fix request_firmware() error at resume" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    PM / sleep: Fix request_firmware() error at resume

to the linux-3.11.y-queue branch of the 3.11.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.11.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.11.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de>
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 08:51:27 +0200
Subject: PM / sleep: Fix request_firmware() error at resume

commit 4320f6b1d9db4ca912c5eb6ecb328b2e090e1586 upstream.

The commit [247bc037: PM / Sleep: Mitigate race between the freezer
and request_firmware()] introduced the finer state control, but it
also leads to a new bug; for example, a bug report regarding the
firmware loading of intel BT device at suspend/resume:
  https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=873790

The root cause seems to be a small window between the process resume
and the clear of usermodehelper lock.  The request_firmware() function
checks the UMH lock and gives up when it's in UMH_DISABLE state.  This
is for avoiding the invalid  f/w loading during suspend/resume phase.
The problem is, however, that usermodehelper_enable() is called at the
end of thaw_processes().  Thus, a thawed process in between can kick
off the f/w loader code path (in this case, via btusb_setup_intel())
even before the call of usermodehelper_enable().  Then
usermodehelper_read_trylock() returns an error and request_firmware()
spews WARN_ON() in the end.

This oneliner patch fixes the issue just by setting to UMH_FREEZING
state again before restarting tasks, so that the call of
request_firmware() will be blocked until the end of this function
instead of returning an error.

Fixes: 247bc0374254 (PM / Sleep: Mitigate race between the freezer and request_firmware())
Link: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=873790
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 kernel/power/process.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/kernel/power/process.c b/kernel/power/process.c
index 06ec8869dbf1..14f9a8d4725d 100644
--- a/kernel/power/process.c
+++ b/kernel/power/process.c
@@ -184,6 +184,7 @@ void thaw_processes(void)

 	printk("Restarting tasks ... ");

+	__usermodehelper_set_disable_depth(UMH_FREEZING);
 	thaw_workqueues();

 	read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
--
1.9.1