[PATCH AUTOSEL 5.10 060/114] drm/amdkfd: KFD release_work possible circular locking

Sasha Levin sashal at kernel.org
Mon May 5 23:17:23 UTC 2025


From: Philip Yang <Philip.Yang at amd.com>

[ Upstream commit 1b9366c601039d60546794c63fbb83ce8e53b978 ]

If waiting for gpu reset done in KFD release_work, thers is WARNING:
possible circular locking dependency detected

  #2  kfd_create_process
        kfd_process_mutex
          flush kfd release work

  #1  kfd release work
        wait for amdgpu reset work

  #0  amdgpu_device_gpu_reset
        kgd2kfd_pre_reset
          kfd_process_mutex

  Possible unsafe locking scenario:

        CPU0                    CPU1
        ----                    ----
   lock((work_completion)(&p->release_work));
                  lock((wq_completion)kfd_process_wq);
                  lock((work_completion)(&p->release_work));
   lock((wq_completion)amdgpu-reset-dev);

To fix this, KFD create process move flush release work outside
kfd_process_mutex.

Signed-off-by: Philip Yang <Philip.Yang at amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Felix Kuehling <felix.kuehling at amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher at amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal at kernel.org>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_process.c | 16 ++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_process.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_process.c
index 184527afe2bd5..05d2598f516d1 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_process.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_process.c
@@ -755,6 +755,14 @@ struct kfd_process *kfd_create_process(struct file *filep)
 	if (thread->group_leader->mm != thread->mm)
 		return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
 
+	/* If the process just called exec(3), it is possible that the
+	 * cleanup of the kfd_process (following the release of the mm
+	 * of the old process image) is still in the cleanup work queue.
+	 * Make sure to drain any job before trying to recreate any
+	 * resource for this process.
+	 */
+	flush_workqueue(kfd_process_wq);
+
 	/*
 	 * take kfd processes mutex before starting of process creation
 	 * so there won't be a case where two threads of the same process
@@ -767,14 +775,6 @@ struct kfd_process *kfd_create_process(struct file *filep)
 	if (process) {
 		pr_debug("Process already found\n");
 	} else {
-		/* If the process just called exec(3), it is possible that the
-		 * cleanup of the kfd_process (following the release of the mm
-		 * of the old process image) is still in the cleanup work queue.
-		 * Make sure to drain any job before trying to recreate any
-		 * resource for this process.
-		 */
-		flush_workqueue(kfd_process_wq);
-
 		process = create_process(thread);
 		if (IS_ERR(process))
 			goto out;
-- 
2.39.5



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