FAILED: patch "[PATCH] net: usbnet: Avoid potential RCU stall on LINK_CHANGE event" failed to apply to 5.10-stable tree

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2025-08-12 15:22 UTC #0 lore raw

The patch below does not apply to the 5.10-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to <[email protected]>.

To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:

git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-5.10.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x 0d9cfc9b8cb17dbc29a98792d36ec39a1cf1395f
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<[email protected]>' --in-reply-to '2025081258-value-bobbing-e1b7@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 5.10.y' HEAD^..

Possible dependencies:

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From 0d9cfc9b8cb17dbc29a98792d36ec39a1cf1395f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: John Ernberg <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2025 10:25:35 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] net: usbnet: Avoid potential RCU stall on LINK_CHANGE event

The Gemalto Cinterion PLS83-W modem (cdc_ether) is emitting confusing link up and down events when the WWAN interface is activated on the modem-side.

Interrupt URBs will in consecutive polls grab:
* Link Connected
* Link Disconnected
* Link Connected

Where the last Connected is then a stable link state.

When the system is under load this may cause the unlink_urbs() work in __handle_link_change() to not complete before the next usbnet_link_change() call turns the carrier on again, allowing rx_submit() to queue new SKBs.

In that event the URB queue is filled faster than it can drain, ending up in a RCU stall:

    rcu: INFO: rcu_sched detected expedited stalls on CPUs/tasks: { 0-.... } 33108 jiffies s: 201 root: 0x1/.
    rcu: blocking rcu_node structures (internal RCU debug):
    Sending NMI from CPU 1 to CPUs 0:
    NMI backtrace for cpu 0

    Call trace:
     arch_local_irq_enable+0x4/0x8
     local_bh_enable+0x18/0x20
     __netdev_alloc_skb+0x18c/0x1cc
     rx_submit+0x68/0x1f8 [usbnet]
     rx_alloc_submit+0x4c/0x74 [usbnet]
     usbnet_bh+0x1d8/0x218 [usbnet]
     usbnet_bh_tasklet+0x10/0x18 [usbnet]
     tasklet_action_common+0xa8/0x110
     tasklet_action+0x2c/0x34
     handle_softirqs+0x2cc/0x3a0
     __do_softirq+0x10/0x18
     ____do_softirq+0xc/0x14
     call_on_irq_stack+0x24/0x34
     do_softirq_own_stack+0x18/0x20
     __irq_exit_rcu+0xa8/0xb8
     irq_exit_rcu+0xc/0x30
     el1_interrupt+0x34/0x48
     el1h_64_irq_handler+0x14/0x1c
     el1h_64_irq+0x68/0x6c
     _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x38/0x48
     xhci_urb_dequeue+0x1ac/0x45c [xhci_hcd]
     unlink1+0xd4/0xdc [usbcore]
     usb_hcd_unlink_urb+0x70/0xb0 [usbcore]
     usb_unlink_urb+0x24/0x44 [usbcore]
     unlink_urbs.constprop.0.isra.0+0x64/0xa8 [usbnet]
     __handle_link_change+0x34/0x70 [usbnet]
     usbnet_deferred_kevent+0x1c0/0x320 [usbnet]
     process_scheduled_works+0x2d0/0x48c
     worker_thread+0x150/0x1dc
     kthread+0xd8/0xe8
     ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20

Get around the problem by delaying the carrier on to the scheduled work.

This needs a new flag to keep track of the necessary action.

The carrier ok check cannot be removed as it remains required for the LINK_RESET event flow.

Fixes 4b49f58fff00 ("usbnet: handle link change")

Cc [email protected]

Signed-off-by John Ernberg <[email protected]>

Link https://patch.msgid.link/[email protected] open here

Signed-off-by Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]>

drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c +8 -3

index c04e715a4c2a..bc1d8631ffe0 100644
@@ -1122,6 +1122,9 @@ static void __handle_link_change(struct usbnet *dev)
 		 * tx queue is stopped by netcore after link becomes off
 		 */
 	} else {
+		if (test_and_clear_bit(EVENT_LINK_CARRIER_ON, &dev->flags))
+			netif_carrier_on(dev->net);
+
 		/* submitting URBs for reading packets */
 		tasklet_schedule(&dev->bh);
 	}

@@ -2009,10 +2012,12 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(usbnet_manage_power);
 void usbnet_link_change(struct usbnet *dev, bool link, bool need_reset)
 {
 	/* update link after link is reseted */
-	if (link && !need_reset)
-		netif_carrier_on(dev->net);
-	else
+	if (link && !need_reset) {
+		set_bit(EVENT_LINK_CARRIER_ON, &dev->flags);
+	} else {
+		clear_bit(EVENT_LINK_CARRIER_ON, &dev->flags);
 		netif_carrier_off(dev->net);
+	}
 
 	if (need_reset && link)
 		usbnet_defer_kevent(dev, EVENT_LINK_RESET);

include/linux/usb/usbnet.h +1 -0

index 0b9f1e598e3a..4bc6bb01a0eb 100644
@@ -76,6 +76,7 @@ struct usbnet {
 #		define EVENT_LINK_CHANGE	11
 #		define EVENT_SET_RX_MODE	12
 #		define EVENT_NO_IP_ALIGN	13
+#		define EVENT_LINK_CARRIER_ON	14
 /* This one is special, as it indicates that the device is going away
  * there are cyclic dependencies between tasklet, timer and bh
  * that must be broken

Sasha Levin

maintainer

2025-08-13 13:44 UTC #1 lore raw

PATCH 1/1 net: usbnet: Avoid potential RCU stall on LINK_CHANGE event

From: John Ernberg <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit 0d9cfc9b8cb17dbc29a98792d36ec39a1cf1395f ]