[PATCH v2 1/2] media: exynos-gsc: fix lockdep warning

Shuah Khan shuahkh at osg.samsung.com
Fri Dec 8 14:58:33 PST 2017


On 11/07/2017 09:53 AM, Shuah Khan wrote:
> On 10/16/2017 09:18 AM, Hans Verkuil wrote:
>> On 10/16/2017 05:16 PM, Shuah Khan wrote:
>>> The driver mmap functions shouldn't take lock when calling vb2_mmap().
>>> Fix it to not take the lock.
>>>
>>> Reference: commit log for f035eb4e976ef5a059e30bc91cfd310ff030a7d3
>>> and e752577ed7bf55c81e10343fced8b378cda2b63b
>>>
>>> The following lockdep warning is fixed with this change.
>>>
>>> [ 1990.972058] ======================================================
>>> [ 1990.978172] WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected
>>> [ 1990.984327] 4.14.0-rc2-00002-gfab205f-dirty #4 Not tainted
>>> [ 1990.989783] ------------------------------------------------------
>>> [ 1990.995937] qtdemux0:sink/2765 is trying to acquire lock:
>>> [ 1991.001309]  (&gsc->lock){+.+.}, at: [<bf1729f0>] gsc_m2m_mmap+0x24/0x5c [exynos_gsc]
>>> [ 1991.009108]
>>>                but task is already holding lock:
>>> [ 1991.014913]  (&mm->mmap_sem){++++}, at: [<c01df2e4>] vm_mmap_pgoff+0x44/0xb8
>>> [ 1991.021932]
>>>                which lock already depends on the new lock.
>>>
>>> [ 1991.030078]
>>>                the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is:
>>> [ 1991.037530]
>>>                -> #1 (&mm->mmap_sem){++++}:
>>> [ 1991.042913]        __might_fault+0x80/0xb0
>>> [ 1991.047096]        video_usercopy+0x1cc/0x510 [videodev]
>>> [ 1991.052297]        v4l2_ioctl+0xa4/0xdc [videodev]
>>> [ 1991.057036]        do_vfs_ioctl+0xa0/0xa18
>>> [ 1991.061102]        SyS_ioctl+0x34/0x5c
>>> [ 1991.064834]        ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x28
>>> [ 1991.069072]
>>>                -> #0 (&gsc->lock){+.+.}:
>>> [ 1991.074193]        lock_acquire+0x6c/0x88
>>> [ 1991.078179]        __mutex_lock+0x68/0xa34
>>> [ 1991.082247]        mutex_lock_interruptible_nested+0x1c/0x24
>>> [ 1991.087888]        gsc_m2m_mmap+0x24/0x5c [exynos_gsc]
>>> [ 1991.093029]        v4l2_mmap+0x54/0x88 [videodev]
>>> [ 1991.097673]        mmap_region+0x3a8/0x638
>>> [ 1991.101743]        do_mmap+0x330/0x3a4
>>> [ 1991.105470]        vm_mmap_pgoff+0x90/0xb8
>>> [ 1991.109542]        SyS_mmap_pgoff+0x90/0xc0
>>> [ 1991.113702]        ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x28
>>> [ 1991.117945]
>>>                other info that might help us debug this:
>>>
>>> [ 1991.125918]  Possible unsafe locking scenario:
>>>
>>> [ 1991.131810]        CPU0                    CPU1
>>> [ 1991.136315]        ----                    ----
>>> [ 1991.140821]   lock(&mm->mmap_sem);
>>> [ 1991.144201]                                lock(&gsc->lock);
>>> [ 1991.149833]                                lock(&mm->mmap_sem);
>>> [ 1991.155725]   lock(&gsc->lock);
>>> [ 1991.158845]
>>>                 *** DEADLOCK ***
>>>
>>> [ 1991.164740] 1 lock held by qtdemux0:sink/2765:
>>> [ 1991.169157]  #0:  (&mm->mmap_sem){++++}, at: [<c01df2e4>] vm_mmap_pgoff+0x44/0xb8
>>> [ 1991.176609]
>>>                stack backtrace:
>>> [ 1991.180946] CPU: 2 PID: 2765 Comm: qtdemux0:sink Not tainted 4.14.0-rc2-00002-gfab205f-dirty #4
>>> [ 1991.189608] Hardware name: SAMSUNG EXYNOS (Flattened Device Tree)
>>> [ 1991.195686] [<c01102c8>] (unwind_backtrace) from [<c010cabc>] (show_stack+0x10/0x14)
>>> [ 1991.203393] [<c010cabc>] (show_stack) from [<c08543a4>] (dump_stack+0x98/0xc4)
>>> [ 1991.210586] [<c08543a4>] (dump_stack) from [<c016b2fc>] (print_circular_bug+0x254/0x410)
>>> [ 1991.218644] [<c016b2fc>] (print_circular_bug) from [<c016c580>] (check_prev_add+0x468/0x938)
>>> [ 1991.227049] [<c016c580>] (check_prev_add) from [<c016f4dc>] (__lock_acquire+0x1314/0x14fc)
>>> [ 1991.235281] [<c016f4dc>] (__lock_acquire) from [<c016fefc>] (lock_acquire+0x6c/0x88)
>>> [ 1991.242993] [<c016fefc>] (lock_acquire) from [<c0869fb4>] (__mutex_lock+0x68/0xa34)
>>> [ 1991.250620] [<c0869fb4>] (__mutex_lock) from [<c086aa08>] (mutex_lock_interruptible_nested+0x1c/0x24)
>>> [ 1991.259812] [<c086aa08>] (mutex_lock_interruptible_nested) from [<bf1729f0>] (gsc_m2m_mmap+0x24/0x5c [exynos_gsc])
>>> [ 1991.270159] [<bf1729f0>] (gsc_m2m_mmap [exynos_gsc]) from [<bf037120>] (v4l2_mmap+0x54/0x88 [videodev])
>>> [ 1991.279510] [<bf037120>] (v4l2_mmap [videodev]) from [<c01f4798>] (mmap_region+0x3a8/0x638)
>>> [ 1991.287792] [<c01f4798>] (mmap_region) from [<c01f4d58>] (do_mmap+0x330/0x3a4)
>>> [ 1991.294986] [<c01f4d58>] (do_mmap) from [<c01df330>] (vm_mmap_pgoff+0x90/0xb8)
>>> [ 1991.302178] [<c01df330>] (vm_mmap_pgoff) from [<c01f28cc>] (SyS_mmap_pgoff+0x90/0xc0)
>>> [ 1991.309977] [<c01f28cc>] (SyS_mmap_pgoff) from [<c0108820>] (ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x28)
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <shuahkh at osg.samsung.com>
>>> Suggested-by: Hans Verkuil <hansverk at cisco.com>
>>> Acked-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski at samsung.com>
>>
>> Acked-by: Hans Verkuil <hansverk at cisco.com>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> 	Hans
> 
> Hi Mauro,
> 
> Are you planning to take this in for 4.15-rc1? This patch is applicable
> to stable as well.
> 
> thanks,
> -- Shuah
> 

Hi Mauro,

Doesn't look like this fox made it into 4.15-rc2 - do you plan to get this
into 4.15 at some point?

I am seeing this lockdep warning in 4.15-rc2

thanks,
-- Shuah



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