platform/mellanox: fix potential deadlock in the tmfifo driver
authorLiming Sun <lsun@mellanox.com>
Fri, 20 Dec 2019 17:04:33 +0000 (12:04 -0500)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 17 Jan 2020 18:48:42 +0000 (19:48 +0100)
commitc79fff3feb7851e1ce735b0826b03200f7b9ace3
treec60b1f5ecfffe30d6b95b1b9a0eae7ead73f57db
parent63154ee1cd53cc7e392febf2f39d801efc369059
platform/mellanox: fix potential deadlock in the tmfifo driver

commit 638bc4ca3d28c25986cce4cbad69d9b8abf1e434 upstream.

This commit fixes the potential deadlock caused by the console Rx
and Tx processing at the same time. Rx and Tx both take the console
and tmfifo spinlock but in different order which causes potential
deadlock. The fix is to use different tmfifo spinlock for Rx and
Tx since they protect different resources and it's safe to split
the lock.

Below is the reported call trace when copying/pasting large string
in the console.

Rx:
    _raw_spin_lock_irqsave (hvc lock)
    __hvc_poll
    hvc_poll
    in_intr
    vring_interrupt
    mlxbf_tmfifo_rxtx_one_desc (tmfifo lock)
    mlxbf_tmfifo_rxtx
    mlxbf_tmfifo_work_rxtx
Tx:
    _raw_spin_lock_irqsave (tmfifo lock)
    mlxbf_tmfifo_virtio_notify
    virtqueue_notify
    virtqueue_kick
    put_chars
    hvc_push
    hvc_write (hvc lock)
    ...
    do_tty_write
    tty_write

Fixes: 1357dfd7261f ("platform/mellanox: Add TmFifo driver for Mellanox BlueField Soc")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 5.4+
Reviewed-by: David Woods <dwoods@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Liming Sun <lsun@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/platform/mellanox/mlxbf-tmfifo.c