On Mon, 25 Jun 2018, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:

> The USB completion callback does not disable interrupts while acquiring
> the lock. We want to remove the local_irq_disable() invocation from
> __usb_hcd_giveback_urb() and therefore it is required for the callback
> handler to disable the interrupts while acquiring the lock.
> The callback may be invoked either in IRQ or BH context depending on the
> USB host controller.
> Use the _irqsave() variant of the locking primitives.
> 
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <[email protected]>
> ---
>  drivers/usb/misc/usbtest.c | 14 ++++++++------
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/usb/misc/usbtest.c b/drivers/usb/misc/usbtest.c
> index 9e1142b8b91b..3b56fb34906c 100644
> --- a/drivers/usb/misc/usbtest.c
> +++ b/drivers/usb/misc/usbtest.c
> @@ -1082,11 +1082,12 @@ static void ctrl_complete(struct urb *urb)
>       struct usb_ctrlrequest  *reqp;
>       struct subcase          *subcase;
>       int                     status = urb->status;
> +     unsigned long           flags;
>  
>       reqp = (struct usb_ctrlrequest *)urb->setup_packet;
>       subcase = container_of(reqp, struct subcase, setup);
>  
> -     spin_lock(&ctx->lock);
> +     spin_lock_irqsave(&ctx->lock, flags);
>       ctx->count--;
>       ctx->pending--;
>  
> @@ -1152,9 +1153,9 @@ static void ctrl_complete(struct urb *urb)
>  
>                               if (u == urb || !u->dev)
>                                       continue;
> -                             spin_unlock(&ctx->lock);
> +                             spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ctx->lock, flags);
>                               status = usb_unlink_urb(u);
> -                             spin_lock(&ctx->lock);
> +                             spin_lock_irqsave(&ctx->lock, flags);

My feeling tends to be that when a lock is temporarily dropped to take 
a single action like this, there's no need to restore the 
interrupt-enable flag.  These two calls can remain 
spin_unlock()/spin_lock().

Aside from this:

Acked-by: Alan Stern <[email protected]>

Alan Stern

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