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SubjectRe: [syzbot] INFO: rcu detected stall in tx
On Mon, Jun 28, 2021 at 06:38:37AM +0000, Zhang, Qiang wrote:
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> ________________________________________
> From: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
> Sent: Monday, 19 April 2021 15:27
> To: syzbot; Greg Kroah-Hartman; guido.kiener@rohde-schwarz.com; dpenkler@gmail.com; lee.jones@linaro.org; USB list
> Cc: bp@alien8.de; dwmw@amazon.co.uk; hpa@zytor.com; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; luto@kernel.org; mingo@redhat.com; syzkaller-bugs@googlegroups.com; tglx@linutronix.de; x86@kernel.org
> Subject: Re: [syzbot] INFO: rcu detected stall in tx
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> [Please note: This e-mail is from an EXTERNAL e-mail address]
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> On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 9:19 AM syzbot
> <syzbot+e2eae5639e7203360018@syzkaller.appspotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > syzbot found the following issue on:
> >
> > HEAD commit: 50987bec Merge tag 'trace-v5.12-rc7' of git://git.kernel.o..
> > git tree: upstream
> > console output: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=1065c5fcd00000
> > kernel config: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=398c4d0fe6f66e68
> > dashboard link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=e2eae5639e7203360018
> >
> > Unfortunately, I don't have any reproducer for this issue yet.
> >
> > IMPORTANT: if you fix the issue, please add the following tag to the commit:
> > Reported-by: syzbot+e2eae5639e7203360018@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
> >
> > usbtmc 5-1:0.0: unknown status received: -71
> > usbtmc 3-1:0.0: unknown status received: -71
> > usbtmc 5-1:0.0: unknown status received: -71
>
> >The log shows an infinite stream of these before the stall, so I
> >assume it's an infinite loop in usbtmc.
> >+usbtmc maintainers
> >
> >[ 370.171634][ C0] usbtmc 6-1:0.0: unknown status received: >-71
> >[ 370.177799][ C1] usbtmc 3-1:0.0: unknown status received: >-71

> This seems like a long time in the following cycle, when the callback function usbtmc_interrupt() find unknown status error, it will submit urb again. the urb may be insert urbp_list.
> due to the dummy_timer() be called in bh-disable.
> This will result in the RCU reading critical area not exiting for a long time (note: bh_disable/enable, preempt_disable/enable is regarded as the RCU critical reading area ), and prevent rcu_preempt kthread be schedule and running.

> Whether to return directly when we find the urb status is unknown error?

Yes.

> diff --git a/drivers/usb/class/usbtmc.c b/drivers/usb/class/usbtmc.c
> index 74d5a9c5238a..39d44339c03f 100644
> --- a/drivers/usb/class/usbtmc.c
> +++ b/drivers/usb/class/usbtmc.c
> @@ -2335,6 +2335,7 @@ static void usbtmc_interrupt(struct urb *urb)
> return;
> default:
> dev_err(dev, "unknown status received: %d\n", status);
> + return;
> }
> exit:
> rv = usb_submit_urb(urb, GFP_ATOMIC);

This is the right thing to do. In fact, you should also change the code
above this. There's no real need for special handling of the
-ECONNRESET, -ENOENT, ..., -EPIPE codes, since the driver will do the
same thing no matter what the code is.

Alan Stern

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