We are seeing deadlocks related to wifi in our 4.13.3+ kernels, so I enabled lockdep and immediately saw this. Anyone know if this is a known issue? Otherwise, I guess it could be related to some local patch I have added...
[ 476.172823] ============================================ [ 476.176863] WARNING: possible recursive locking detected [ 476.180895] 4.13.3+ #1 Not tainted [ 476.183025] -------------------------------------------- [ 476.187053] kworker/u8:2/281 is trying to acquire lock: [ 476.190993] (&sta->ampdu_mlme.mtx){+.+...}, at: [<ffffffffa09cd4e8>] __ieee80211_start_rx_ba_session+0x178/0x670 [mac80211] [ 476.201004] but task is already holding lock: [ 476.204270] (&sta->ampdu_mlme.mtx){+.+...}, at: [<ffffffffa09c93a6>] ieee80211_ba_session_work+0x46/0x2b0 [mac80211] [ 476.213645] other info that might help us debug this: [ 476.217587] Possible unsafe locking scenario: [ 476.220930] CPU0 [ 476.222082] ---- [ 476.223236] lock(&sta->ampdu_mlme.mtx); [ 476.225957] lock(&sta->ampdu_mlme.mtx); [ 476.228673] *** DEADLOCK *** [ 476.230689] May be due to missing lock nesting notation [ 476.234879] 3 locks held by kworker/u8:2/281: [ 476.237941] #0: ("%s"wiphy_name(local->hw.wiphy)){++++.+}, at: [<ffffffff8113df8f>] process_one_work+0x14f/0x6a0 [ 476.247033] #1: ((&sta->ampdu_mlme.work)){+.+...}, at: [<ffffffff8113df8f>] process_one_work+0x14f/0x6a0 [ 476.255393] #2: (&sta->ampdu_mlme.mtx){+.+...}, at: [<ffffffffa09c93a6>] ieee80211_ba_session_work+0x46/0x2b0 [mac80211] [ 476.265170] stack backtrace: [ 476.266928] CPU: 0 PID: 281 Comm: kworker/u8:2 Not tainted 4.13.3+ #1 [ 476.272073] Hardware name: _ _/ , BIOS 5.11 08/26/2016 [ 476.275927] Workqueue: phy1 ieee80211_ba_session_work [mac80211] [ 476.280640] Call Trace: [ 476.281792] dump_stack+0x85/0xc7 [ 476.283811] __lock_acquire+0x14ba/0x1520 [ 476.286526] ? __save_stack_trace+0x6e/0xd0 [ 476.289412] ? ret_from_fork+0x2a/0x40 [ 476.291867] lock_acquire+0xac/0x200 [ 476.294145] ? lock_acquire+0xac/0x200 [ 476.296610] ? __ieee80211_start_rx_ba_session+0x178/0x670 [mac80211] [ 476.301766] ? __ieee80211_start_rx_ba_session+0x178/0x670 [mac80211] [ 476.306910] __mutex_lock+0x69/0x930 [ 476.309194] ? __ieee80211_start_rx_ba_session+0x178/0x670 [mac80211] [ 476.314343] ? rcu_read_lock_sched_held+0x6d/0x80 [ 476.317766] ? __sdata_dbg+0x14a/0x1a0 [mac80211] [ 476.321181] mutex_lock_nested+0x16/0x20 [ 476.323810] ? mutex_lock_nested+0x16/0x20 [ 476.326626] __ieee80211_start_rx_ba_session+0x178/0x670 [mac80211] [ 476.331627] ieee80211_ba_session_work+0x157/0x2b0 [mac80211] [ 476.336078] ? process_one_work+0x14f/0x6a0 [ 476.338985] process_one_work+0x1ce/0x6a0 [ 476.341696] worker_thread+0x46/0x400 [ 476.344061] kthread+0x10f/0x150 [ 476.346001] ? process_one_work+0x6a0/0x6a0 [ 476.348886] ? kthread_create_on_node+0x40/0x40 [ 476.352122] ret_from_fork+0x2a/0x40 Thanks, Ben -- Ben Greear <gree...@candelatech.com> Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com