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        Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>,
        Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 4.14 096/229] mtd: sm_ftl: Fix deadlock caused by cancel_work_sync in sm_release
Date:   Tue, 23 Aug 2022 10:24:17 +0200
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From: Duoming Zhou <duoming@zju.edu.cn>

[ Upstream commit a61528d997619a518ee8c51cf0ef0513021afaff ]

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@zju.edu.cn>
Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mtd/20220524044841.10517-1-duoming@zju.edu.cn
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
 drivers/mtd/sm_ftl.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/mtd/sm_ftl.c b/drivers/mtd/sm_ftl.c
index 3692dd547879..e48718393ddf 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/sm_ftl.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/sm_ftl.c
@@ -1109,9 +1109,9 @@ static void sm_release(struct mtd_blktrans_dev *dev)
 {
 	struct sm_ftl *ftl = dev->priv;
 
-	mutex_lock(&ftl->mutex);
 	del_timer_sync(&ftl->timer);
 	cancel_work_sync(&ftl->flush_work);
+	mutex_lock(&ftl->mutex);
 	sm_cache_flush(ftl);
 	mutex_unlock(&ftl->mutex);
 }
-- 
2.35.1