[alsa-devel] ALSA: firewire-lib: Fix stall of process context on local CPU, with disabled IRQ at packet error
Takashi Iwai
tiwai at suse.de
Fri Jun 9 08:44:57 CEST 2017
On Fri, 09 Jun 2017 01:04:53 +0200,
Takashi Sakamoto wrote:
>
> Hi Clemens and Iwai-san,
>
> I found a critical bug on ALSA IEC 61883-1/6 engine at error handling
> on process context. At packet queueing error or detection of invalid
> packet, user process can stall on local CPU with IRQ disabled. This
> bug was introduced at v3.5.
>
> I wrote a fix but this can be applied down to v4.9.31, but it's
> unavailable for the former longterm versions. What can we do for them?
You can send a different patch for each stable kernel to stable ML
once after the original patch gets merged to Linus tree.
thanks,
Takashi
>
> ========== 8< ----------
> From c8c7541f83913c98bb6f3774127a48c7998caca0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi at sakamocchi.jp>
> Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2017 07:40:05 +0900
> Subject: [PATCH] ALSA: firewire-lib: Fix stall of process context on
> local CPU
> with disabled IRQ at packet error
>
> At Linux v3.5, packet processing can be done in process context of ALSA
> PCM application as well as software IRQ context for OHCI 1394. Below is
> an example of the callgraph (some calls are omitted).
>
> ioctl(2) with e.g. HWSYNC
> (sound/core/pcm_native.c)
> ->snd_pcm_common_ioctl1()
> ->snd_pcm_hwsync()
> ->snd_pcm_stream_lock_irq
> (sound/core/pcm_lib.c)
> ->snd_pcm_update_hw_ptr()
> ->snd_pcm_udpate_hw_ptr0()
> ->struct snd_pcm_ops.pointer()
> (sound/firewire/*)
> = Each handler on drivers in ALSA firewire stack
> (sound/firewire/amdtp-stream.c)
> ->amdtp_stream_pcm_pointer()
> (drivers/firewire/core-iso.c)
> ->fw_iso_context_flush_completions()
> ->struct fw_card_driver.flush_iso_completion()
> (drivers/firewire/ohci.c)
> = flush_iso_completions()
> ->struct fw_iso_context.callback.sc
> (sound/firewire/amdtp-stream.c)
> = in_stream_callback() or out_stream_callback()
> ->...
> ->snd_pcm_stream_unlock_irq
>
> When packet queueing error occurs or detecting invalid packets in
> 'in_stream_callback()' or 'out_stream_callback()', 'snd_pcm_stop_xrun()'
> is called on local CPU with disabled IRQ.
>
> (sound/firewire/amdtp-stream.c)
> in_stream_callback() or out_stream_callback()
> ->amdtp_stream_pcm_abort()
> ->snd_pcm_stop_xrun()
> ->snd_pcm_stream_lock_irqsave()
> ->snd_pcm_stop()
> ->snd_pcm_stream_unlock_irqrestore()
>
> The process is stalled on the CPU.
>
> [ 562.630853] INFO: rcu_sched detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
> [ 562.630861] 2-...: (1 GPs behind) idle=37d/140000000000000/0
> softirq=38323/38323 fqs=7140
> [ 562.630862] (detected by 3, t=15002 jiffies, g=21036, c=21035,
> q=5933)
> [ 562.630866] Task dump for CPU 2:
> [ 562.630867] alsa-source-OXF R running task 0 6619 1
> 0x00000008
> [ 562.630870] Call Trace:
> [ 562.630876] ? vt_console_print+0x79/0x3e0
> [ 562.630880] ? msg_print_text+0x9d/0x100
> [ 562.630883] ? up+0x32/0x50
> [ 562.630885] ? irq_work_queue+0x8d/0xa0
> [ 562.630886] ? console_unlock+0x2b6/0x4b0
> [ 562.630888] ? vprintk_emit+0x312/0x4a0
> [ 562.630892] ? dev_vprintk_emit+0xbf/0x230
> [ 562.630895] ? do_sys_poll+0x37a/0x550
> [ 562.630897] ? dev_printk_emit+0x4e/0x70
> [ 562.630900] ? __dev_printk+0x3c/0x80
> [ 562.630903] ? _raw_spin_lock+0x20/0x30
> [ 562.630909] ? snd_pcm_stream_lock+0x31/0x50 [snd_pcm]
> [ 562.630914] ? _snd_pcm_stream_lock_irqsave+0x2e/0x40 [snd_pcm]
> [ 562.630918] ? snd_pcm_stop_xrun+0x16/0x70 [snd_pcm]
> [ 562.630922] ? in_stream_callback+0x3e6/0x450 [snd_firewire_lib]
> [ 562.630925] ? handle_ir_packet_per_buffer+0x8e/0x1a0 [firewire_ohci]
> [ 562.630928] ? ohci_flush_iso_completions+0xa3/0x130 [firewire_ohci]
> [ 562.630932] ? fw_iso_context_flush_completions+0x15/0x20 [firewire_core]
> [ 562.630935] ? amdtp_stream_pcm_pointer+0x2d/0x40 [snd_firewire_lib]
> [ 562.630938] ? pcm_capture_pointer+0x19/0x20 [snd_oxfw]
> [ 562.630943] ? snd_pcm_update_hw_ptr0+0x47/0x3d0 [snd_pcm]
> [ 562.630945] ? poll_select_copy_remaining+0x150/0x150
> [ 562.630947] ? poll_select_copy_remaining+0x150/0x150
> [ 562.630952] ? snd_pcm_update_hw_ptr+0x10/0x20 [snd_pcm]
> [ 562.630956] ? snd_pcm_hwsync+0x45/0xb0 [snd_pcm]
> [ 562.630960] ? snd_pcm_common_ioctl1+0x1ff/0xc90 [snd_pcm]
> [ 562.630962] ? futex_wake+0x90/0x170
> [ 562.630966] ? snd_pcm_capture_ioctl1+0x136/0x260 [snd_pcm]
> [ 562.630970] ? snd_pcm_capture_ioctl+0x27/0x40 [snd_pcm]
> [ 562.630972] ? do_vfs_ioctl+0xa3/0x610
> [ 562.630974] ? vfs_read+0x11b/0x130
> [ 562.630976] ? SyS_ioctl+0x79/0x90
> [ 562.630978] ? entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1e/0xad
>
> This commit attempts to fix the above bug by removing the calls of
> 'amdtp_stream_pcm_abort()' from packet handler. When encountering the
> error state, the packet handler is already programmed not to process
> packets anymore. This commit expects any process context or software IRQ
> contexts to detect PCM XRUN by calls of snd_pcm_hw_ptr() or checking
> status data of PCM substream.
>
> Fixes: e9148dddc3c7("ALSA: firewire-lib: flush completed packets when
> reading PCM position")
> Signed-off-by: Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi at sakamocchi.jp>
> ---
> sound/firewire/amdtp-stream.c | 2 --
> 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/sound/firewire/amdtp-stream.c b/sound/firewire/amdtp-stream.c
> index 4316d9db404d..65e215764c21 100644
> --- a/sound/firewire/amdtp-stream.c
> +++ b/sound/firewire/amdtp-stream.c
> @@ -682,7 +682,6 @@ static void out_stream_callback(struct
> fw_iso_context *context, u32 tstamp,
> cycle = increment_cycle_count(cycle, 1);
> if (s->handle_packet(s, 0, cycle, i) < 0) {
> s->packet_index = -1;
> - amdtp_stream_pcm_abort(s);
> return;
> }
> }
> @@ -734,7 +733,6 @@ static void in_stream_callback(struct
> fw_iso_context *context, u32 tstamp,
> /* Queueing error or detecting invalid payload. */
> if (i < packets) {
> s->packet_index = -1;
> - amdtp_stream_pcm_abort(s);
> return;
> }
>
> --
> 2.11.0
>
>
> Regards
>
> Takashi Sakamoto
>
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