[alsa-devel] [PATCH] usb-audio: not submit urb for stopped endpoint

[Henry Lin]

>On Tue, 12 Nov 2019 07:51:06 +0100,
>Henry Lin wrote:
>>
>> While output urb's snd_complete_urb() is executing, calling
>> prepare_outbound_urb() may cause endpoint stopped before
>> prepare_outbound_urb() returns and result in next urb submitted
>> to stopped endpoint. usb-audio driver cannot re-use it afterwards as
>> the urb is still hold by usb stack.
>>
>> This change checks EP_FLAG_RUNNING flag after prepare_outbound_urb() again
>> to let snd_complete_urb() know the endpoint already stopped and does not
>> submit next urb.

>OK, this part looks good and understandable.


>> We observed two scenario have this issue:
>> 1. While executing snd_complete_urb() to complete an output urb, calling
>>    prepare_outbound_urb() let deactive_urbs() get called to unlink all
>>    active urbs.
>>
>> [  268.097066] [<ffffffc000af7638>] deactivate_urbs+0xd4/0x108
>> [  268.102633] [<ffffffc000af87fc>] snd_usb_endpoint_stop+0x30/0x58
>> [  268.108636] [<ffffffc000b0272c>] snd_usb_substream_playback_trigger+0xa4/0xf4
>> [  268.115765] [<ffffffc000acdbd0>] snd_pcm_do_stop+0x4c/0x58
>> [  268.121245] [<ffffffc000acda24>] snd_pcm_action_single+0x40/0x88
>> [  268.127245] [<ffffffc000ace984>] snd_pcm_action+0x30/0xf0
>> [  268.132632] [<ffffffc000acea68>] snd_pcm_stop+0x24/0x2c
>> [  268.137851] [<ffffffc000ad5e14>] xrun+0x60/0x6c
>> [  268.142374] [<ffffffc000ad7a98>] snd_pcm_update_state+0xa8/0x10c
>> [  268.148374] [<ffffffc000ad7e24>] snd_pcm_update_hw_ptr0+0x328/0x344
>> [  268.154635] [<ffffffc000ad7ed8>] snd_pcm_period_elapsed+0x98/0xb0
>> [  268.160723] [<ffffffc000b02510>] prepare_playback_urb+0x46c/0x488
>> [  268.166810] [<ffffffc000af7d60>] prepare_outbound_urb+0x60/0x1d4
>> [  268.172805] [<ffffffc000af8d60>] snd_complete_urb+0x244/0x264
>> [  268.178548] [<ffffffc00081fb38>] __usb_hcd_giveback_urb+0x94/0x104
>> [  268.184721] [<ffffffc00081fbe4>] usb_hcd_giveback_urb+0x3c/0x114
>> [  268.190724] [<ffffffc00084d4b4>] handle_tx_event+0x1304/0x1434
>> [  268.196552] [<ffffffc00084dbc0>] xhci_handle_event+0x5dc/0x788
>> [  268.202378] [<ffffffc00084dee4>] xhci_irq+0x178/0x280
>>
>> 2. Userspace application stops playback from sound subsystem with below
>>    call stack:
>>
>> [   28.506477] CPU: 5 PID: 1274 Comm: AudioOut_25 Not tainted 4.4.38-tegra #31
>> [   28.513430] Hardware name: quill (DT)
>> [   28.517085] Call trace:
>> [   28.519531] [<ffffffc000089a84>] dump_backtrace+0x0/0xf8
>> [   28.524837] [<ffffffc000089c44>] show_stack+0x14/0x1c
>> [   28.529885] [<ffffffc000401c54>] dump_stack+0xac/0xe0
>> [   28.534931] [<ffffffc000b35f94>] deactivate_urbs+0x148/0x180
>> [   28.540578] [<ffffffc000b37160>] snd_usb_endpoint_stop+0x30/0x58
>> [   28.546571] [<ffffffc000b410d8>] snd_usb_substream_playback_trigger+0xa4/0xf4
>> [   28.553699] [<ffffffc000b0c160>] snd_pcm_do_stop+0x4c/0x58
>> [   28.559179] [<ffffffc000b0bfb4>] snd_pcm_action_single+0x40/0x88
>> [   28.565178] [<ffffffc000b0cf14>] snd_pcm_action+0x30/0xf0
>> [   28.570568] [<ffffffc000b0fbc8>] snd_pcm_drop+0xac/0x140
>> [   28.575873] [<ffffffc000b0fc84>] snd_pcm_release_substream+0x28/0xb0
>> [   28.582212] [<ffffffc000b0fd48>] snd_pcm_release+0x3c/0x98
>> [   28.587686] [<ffffffc0001e3210>] __fput+0xe0/0x1ac
>> [   28.592469] [<ffffffc0001e3334>] ____fput+0xc/0x14
>> [   28.597253] [<ffffffc0000c2904>] task_work_run+0xa0/0xc0
>> [   28.602558] [<ffffffc0000897bc>] do_notify_resume+0x48/0x60
>> [   28.608123] [<ffffffc000084ee8>] work_pending+0x1c/0x20
>>
>> In the call path, snd_pcm_stream spinlock has been acquired in
>> snd_pcm_drop(). If an output urb is completed between the spinlock
>> acquired and deactivate_urbs() clears EP_FLAG_RUNNING for the endpoint,
>> its executing of snd_complete_urb() will be blocked for acquiring
>> snd_pcm_stream spinlock in snd_pcm_period_elapsed() until the lock is
>> released in snd_pcm_drop(). When snd_complete_urb() continues, all jobs
>> for deactivate_urbs() are finished.

>... but this part is unclear to me.  Do you mean that we have a
>deadlock in these two concurrent calls without your patch?
Above describes two different cases that endpoint is stopped before prepare_outbound_urb() returns in details. Listed two call stacks belong to different cases. Without this patch, both two cases will result in below error messages afterwards:

[  213.153103] usb 1-2: timeout: still 1 active urbs on EP #1
[  213.164121] usb 1-2: cannot submit urb 0, error -16: unknown error