[3.8.y.z extended stable] Patch "usb: ehci: fix deadlock when threadirqs option is used" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

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

    usb: ehci: fix deadlock when threadirqs option is used

to the linux-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.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-3.8.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.8.13.20.

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

For more information about the 3.8.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 1f04698eb9b26bd508facda7d4c375e7365e62a0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka at redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 10:29:01 +0100
Subject: usb: ehci: fix deadlock when threadirqs option is used

commit a1227f3c1030e96ebc51d677d2f636268845c5fb upstream.

ehci_irq() and ehci_hrtimer_func() can deadlock on ehci->lock when
threadirqs option is used. To prevent the deadlock use
spin_lock_irqsave() in ehci_irq().

This change can be reverted when hrtimer callbacks become threaded.

Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka at redhat.com>
Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern at rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/usb/host/ehci-hcd.c | 13 ++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/usb/host/ehci-hcd.c b/drivers/usb/host/ehci-hcd.c
index 83b5a172..5b2a76b 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/host/ehci-hcd.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/host/ehci-hcd.c
@@ -683,8 +683,15 @@ static irqreturn_t ehci_irq (struct usb_hcd *hcd)
 	struct ehci_hcd		*ehci = hcd_to_ehci (hcd);
 	u32			status, masked_status, pcd_status = 0, cmd;
 	int			bh;
+	unsigned long		flags;

-	spin_lock (&ehci->lock);
+	/*
+	 * For threadirqs option we use spin_lock_irqsave() variant to prevent
+	 * deadlock with ehci hrtimer callback, because hrtimer callbacks run
+	 * in interrupt context even when threadirqs is specified. We can go
+	 * back to spin_lock() variant when hrtimer callbacks become threaded.
+	 */
+	spin_lock_irqsave(&ehci->lock, flags);

 	status = ehci_readl(ehci, &ehci->regs->status);

@@ -702,7 +709,7 @@ static irqreturn_t ehci_irq (struct usb_hcd *hcd)

 	/* Shared IRQ? */
 	if (!masked_status || unlikely(ehci->rh_state == EHCI_RH_HALTED)) {
-		spin_unlock(&ehci->lock);
+		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ehci->lock, flags);
 		return IRQ_NONE;
 	}

@@ -820,7 +827,7 @@ dead:

 	if (bh)
 		ehci_work (ehci);
-	spin_unlock (&ehci->lock);
+	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ehci->lock, flags);
 	if (pcd_status)
 		usb_hcd_poll_rh_status(hcd);
 	return IRQ_HANDLED;
--
1.8.3.2