FAILED: patch "[PATCH] scsi: cxlflash: Prevent deadlock when adapter probe fails" failed to apply to 3.18-stable tree

The patch below does not apply to the 3.18-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]>.

thanks,

greg k-h

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

From bb61b843ffd46978d7ca5095453e572714934eeb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vaibhav Jain <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2019 17:56:51 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] scsi: cxlflash: Prevent deadlock when adapter probe fails

Presently when an error is encountered during probe of the cxlflash adapter, a deadlock is seen with cpu thread stuck inside cxlflash_remove(). Below is the trace of the deadlock as logged by khungtaskd:

cxlflash 0006:00:00.0: cxlflash_probe: init_afu failed rc=-16

INFO: task kworker/80:1:890 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
       Not tainted 5.0.0-rc4-capi2-kexec+ #2
"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
kworker/80:1    D    0   890      2 0x00000808
Workqueue: events work_for_cpu_fn

Call Trace:
 0x4d72136320 (unreliable)
 __switch_to+0x2cc/0x460
 __schedule+0x2bc/0xac0
 schedule+0x40/0xb0
 cxlflash_remove+0xec/0x640 [cxlflash]
 cxlflash_probe+0x370/0x8f0 [cxlflash]
 local_pci_probe+0x6c/0x140
 work_for_cpu_fn+0x38/0x60
 process_one_work+0x260/0x530
 worker_thread+0x280/0x5d0
 kthread+0x1a8/0x1b0
 ret_from_kernel_thread+0x5c/0x80
INFO: task systemd-udevd:5160 blocked for more than 120 seconds.

The deadlock occurs as cxlflash_remove() is called from cxlflash_probe() without setting 'cxlflash_cfg->state' to STATE_PROBED and the probe thread starts to wait on 'cxlflash_cfg->reset_waitq'. Since the device was never successfully probed the 'cxlflash_cfg->state' never changes from STATE_PROBING hence the deadlock occurs.

We fix this deadlock by setting the variable 'cxlflash_cfg->state' to STATE_PROBED in case an error occurs during cxlflash_probe() and just before calling cxlflash_remove().

index bfa13e3b191c..c8bad2c093b8 100644
@@ -3687,6 +3687,7 @@ static int cxlflash_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev,
 	host->max_cmd_len = CXLFLASH_MAX_CDB_LEN;
 
 	cfg = shost_priv(host);
+	cfg->state = STATE_PROBING;
 	cfg->host = host;
 	rc = alloc_mem(cfg);
 	if (rc) {

@@ -3775,6 +3776,7 @@ static int cxlflash_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev,
 	return rc;
 
 out_remove:
+	cfg->state = STATE_PROBED;
 	cxlflash_remove(pdev);
 	goto out;
 }

oops, nope, my fault, this doesn't belong in 3.18.y, sorry for the noise.

greg k-h