Re: [PATCH] mtd: Fix deadlock caused by cancel_work_sync in sm_release

[Miquel Raynal]

On Tue, 2022-05-24 at 04:48:41 UTC, Duoming Zhou wrote:
> There is a deadlock between sm_release and sm_cache_flush_work
> which is a work item. The cancel_work_sync in sm_release will
> not return until sm_cache_flush_work is finished. If we hold
> mutex_lock and use cancel_work_sync to wait the work item to
> finish, the work item also requires mutex_lock. As a result,
> the sm_release will be blocked forever. The race condition is
> shown below:
> 
>     (Thread 1)             |   (Thread 2)
> sm_release                 |
>   mutex_lock(&ftl->mutex)  | sm_cache_flush_work
>                            |   mutex_lock(&ftl->mutex)
>   cancel_work_sync         |   ...
> 
> This patch moves del_timer_sync and cancel_work_sync out of
> mutex_lock in order to mitigate deadlock.
> 
> Fixes: 7d17c02a01a1 ("mtd: Add new SmartMedia/xD FTL")
> Signed-off-by: Duoming Zhou <duoming@xxxxxxxxxx>

Applied to https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mtd/linux.git mtd/next, thanks.

Miquel