[PATCH] dmaengine: milbeaut-hdmac: Fix deadlock with the channel IRQ handler

Ginger Li ginger.jzllee at gmail.com
Wed Sep 23 02:44:26 PDT 2026


milbeaut_hdmac_interrupt() is a hardirq handler and takes mc->vc.lock with a
plain spin_lock() for the whole time it runs.  interrupts are disabled locally
in that context, so the handler itself is fine.

milbeaut_hdmac_chan_config(), milbeaut_hdmac_chan_pause() and
milbeaut_hdmac_chan_resume() are called from process context and take the same
lock with a plain spin_lock() as well, so interrupts stay enabled while the
lock is held.

If a channel interrupt is delivered on the CPU that is inside one of those
critical sections, milbeaut_hdmac_interrupt() spins on a lock that the
interrupted code is holding and can never release, and the CPU hangs.

Take mc->vc.lock with spin_lock_irqsave() in those three functions, as
milbeaut_hdmac_issue_pending() and the other process context users of this
lock already do.

Fixes: 6c3214e698e4 ("dmaengine: milbeaut-hdmac: Add HDMAC driver for Milbeaut platforms")
Signed-off-by: Ginger Li <ginger.jzllee at gmail.com>
---
 drivers/dma/milbeaut-hdmac.c | 15 +++++++++------
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/dma/milbeaut-hdmac.c b/drivers/dma/milbeaut-hdmac.c
--- a/drivers/dma/milbeaut-hdmac.c
+++ b/drivers/dma/milbeaut-hdmac.c
@@ -214,10 +214,11 @@ milbeaut_hdmac_chan_config(struct dma_chan *chan, stru
 {
 	struct virt_dma_chan *vc = to_virt_chan(chan);
 	struct milbeaut_hdmac_chan *mc = to_milbeaut_hdmac_chan(vc);
+	unsigned long flags;
 
-	spin_lock(&mc->vc.lock);
+	spin_lock_irqsave(&mc->vc.lock, flags);
 	mc->cfg = *cfg;
-	spin_unlock(&mc->vc.lock);
+	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&mc->vc.lock, flags);
 
 	return 0;
 }
@@ -226,13 +227,14 @@ static int milbeaut_hdmac_chan_pause(struct dma_chan *
 {
 	struct virt_dma_chan *vc = to_virt_chan(chan);
 	struct milbeaut_hdmac_chan *mc = to_milbeaut_hdmac_chan(vc);
+	unsigned long flags;
 	u32 val;
 
-	spin_lock(&mc->vc.lock);
+	spin_lock_irqsave(&mc->vc.lock, flags);
 	val = readl_relaxed(mc->reg_ch_base + MLB_HDMAC_DMACA);
 	val |= MLB_HDMAC_PB;
 	writel_relaxed(val, mc->reg_ch_base + MLB_HDMAC_DMACA);
-	spin_unlock(&mc->vc.lock);
+	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&mc->vc.lock, flags);
 
 	return 0;
 }
@@ -241,13 +243,14 @@ static int milbeaut_hdmac_chan_resume(struct dma_chan 
 {
 	struct virt_dma_chan *vc = to_virt_chan(chan);
 	struct milbeaut_hdmac_chan *mc = to_milbeaut_hdmac_chan(vc);
+	unsigned long flags;
 	u32 val;
 
-	spin_lock(&mc->vc.lock);
+	spin_lock_irqsave(&mc->vc.lock, flags);
 	val = readl_relaxed(mc->reg_ch_base + MLB_HDMAC_DMACA);
 	val &= ~MLB_HDMAC_PB;
 	writel_relaxed(val, mc->reg_ch_base + MLB_HDMAC_DMACA);
-	spin_unlock(&mc->vc.lock);
+	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&mc->vc.lock, flags);
 
 	return 0;
 }
-- 
2.43.0




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