[alsa-devel] ALSA: firewire-lib: Fix stall of process context on local CPU, with disabled IRQ at packet error

Takashi Sakamoto o-takashi at sakamocchi.jp
Fri Jun 9 09:10:24 CEST 2017


On Jun 9 2017 15:44, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> 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.

I'm OK for the additional work, thanks.

After reviewing, would you please send this to linus as a part of fix 
for 4.12? Then I start to work for each of the longterms.

For this patch:
Cc: <stable at vger.kernel.org> # 4.9+

>> ========== 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


Regards

Takashi Sakamoto


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