[PATCH v9 03/39] drivers/base: use a worker for sysfs unbind

[Daniel Vetter]

On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 09:31:05AM +0530, Ramalingam C wrote:
> From: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at intel.com>
> 
> Drivers might want to remove some sysfs files, which needs the same
> locks and ends up angering lockdep. Relevant snippet of the stack
> trace:
> 
>   kernfs_remove_by_name_ns+0x3b/0x80
>   bus_remove_driver+0x92/0xa0
>   acpi_video_unregister+0x24/0x40
>   i915_driver_unload+0x42/0x130 [i915]
>   i915_pci_remove+0x19/0x30 [i915]
>   pci_device_remove+0x36/0xb0
>   device_release_driver_internal+0x185/0x250
>   unbind_store+0xaf/0x180
>   kernfs_fop_write+0x104/0x190
> 
> I've stumbled over this because some new patches by Ram connect the
> snd-hda-intel unload (where we do use sysfs unbind) with the locking
> chains in the i915 unload code (but without creating a new loop),
> which upset our CI. But the bug is already there and can be easily
> reproduced by unbind i915 directly.
> 
> No idea whether this is the correct place to fix this, should at least
> get CI happy again.
> 
> Note that the bus locking is already done by device_release_driver ->
> device_release_driver_internal, so I dropped that part. Also note that
> we don't recheck that the device is still bound by the same driver,
> but neither does the current code do that without races. And I figured
> that's a obscure enough corner case to not bother.
> 
> v2: Use a task work. An entirely async work leads to impressive
> fireworks in our CI, notably in the vtcon bind/unbind code. Task work
> will be as synchronous as the current code, and so keep all these
> preexisting races neatly tugged under the rug.
> 
> Cc: Ramalingam C <ramalingam.c at intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at intel.com>

Revised version of this just landed, so we won't need this anymore for
merging. I'll put my patch into topic/core-for-CI, so you can drop this
for the next version.
-Daniel

> ---
>  drivers/base/bus.c | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
>  1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/base/bus.c b/drivers/base/bus.c
> index 8bfd27ec73d6..095c4a140d76 100644
> --- a/drivers/base/bus.c
> +++ b/drivers/base/bus.c
> @@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
>  #include <linux/string.h>
>  #include <linux/mutex.h>
>  #include <linux/sysfs.h>
> +#include <linux/task_work.h>
>  #include "base.h"
>  #include "power/power.h"
>  
> @@ -174,22 +175,44 @@ static const struct kset_uevent_ops bus_uevent_ops = {
>  
>  static struct kset *bus_kset;
>  
> +struct unbind_work {
> +	struct callback_head twork;
> +	struct device *dev;
> +};
> +
> +void unbind_work_fn(struct callback_head *work)
> +{
> +	struct unbind_work *unbind_work =
> +		container_of(work, struct unbind_work, twork);
> +
> +	device_release_driver_internal(unbind_work->dev, NULL,
> +				       unbind_work->dev->parent);
> +	put_device(unbind_work->dev);
> +	kfree(unbind_work);
> +}
> +
>  /* Manually detach a device from its associated driver. */
>  static ssize_t unbind_store(struct device_driver *drv, const char *buf,
>  			    size_t count)
>  {
>  	struct bus_type *bus = bus_get(drv->bus);
> +	struct unbind_work *unbind_work;
>  	struct device *dev;
>  	int err = -ENODEV;
>  
>  	dev = bus_find_device_by_name(bus, NULL, buf);
>  	if (dev && dev->driver == drv) {
> -		if (dev->parent && dev->bus->need_parent_lock)
> -			device_lock(dev->parent);
> -		device_release_driver(dev);
> -		if (dev->parent && dev->bus->need_parent_lock)
> -			device_unlock(dev->parent);
> -		err = count;
> +		unbind_work = kmalloc(sizeof(*unbind_work), GFP_KERNEL);
> +		if (unbind_work) {
> +			unbind_work->dev = dev;
> +			get_device(dev);
> +			init_task_work(&unbind_work->twork, unbind_work_fn);
> +			task_work_add(current, &unbind_work->twork, true);
> +
> +			err = count;
> +		} else {
> +			err = -ENOMEM;
> +		}
>  	}
>  	put_device(dev);
>  	bus_put(bus);
> -- 
> 2.7.4
> 

-- 
Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
http://blog.ffwll.ch