On 2/4/2020 12:19 AM, Manivannan Sadhasivam wrote:

Hi Jakub,

On Mon, Feb 03, 2020 at 10:12:25AM -0800, Jakub Kicinski wrote:

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On Fri, 31 Jan 2020 19:20:07 +0530, Manivannan Sadhasivam wrote:

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+/* From QRTR to MHI */
+static void qcom_mhi_qrtr_ul_callback(struct mhi_device *mhi_dev,
+				      struct mhi_result *mhi_res)
+{
+	struct qrtr_mhi_dev *qdev = dev_get_drvdata(&mhi_dev->dev);
+	struct qrtr_mhi_pkt *pkt;
+	unsigned long flags;
+
+	spin_lock_irqsave(&qdev->ul_lock, flags);
+	pkt = list_first_entry(&qdev->ul_pkts, struct qrtr_mhi_pkt, node);
+	list_del(&pkt->node);
+	complete_all(&pkt->done);
+
+	kref_put(&pkt->refcount, qrtr_mhi_pkt_release);

Which kref_get() does this pair with?

Looks like qcom_mhi_qrtr_send() will release a reference after
completion, too.

Yikes, there is some issue here...

Acutally the issue is not in what you referred above but the overall kref
handling itself. Please see below.

kref_put() should be present in qcom_mhi_qrtr_ul_callback() as it will
decrement the refcount which got incremented in qcom_mhi_qrtr_send(). It
should be noted that kref_init() will fix the refcount to 1 and kref_get() will
increment to 2. So for properly releasing the refcount to 0, we need to call
kref_put() twice.

So if all goes well, the refcount will get decremented twice in
qcom_mhi_qrtr_ul_callback() as well as in qcom_mhi_qrtr_send() and we are good.

But, if the transfer has failed ie., when qcom_mhi_qrtr_ul_callback() doesn't
get called, then we are leaking the refcount. I need to rework the kref handling
code in next iteration.

Thanks for triggering this!

Regards,
Mani

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+	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&qdev->ul_lock, flags);
+}

Hi Mani,

I'm not sure if this was changed in your patches but MHI is supposed to give a
ul_callback() for any packet that is successfully queued. In the case of the
transfer failing, the ul_callback() should still be called so there should
be no refcount leaking. It is an essential assumption I made, if that no longer
holds true then the entire driver needs to be reworked.

Thanks,
Chris

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