HID: wiimote: fix FF deadlock
The input core has an internal spinlock that is acquired during event injection via input_event() and friends but also held during FF callbacks. That means, there is no way to share a lock between event-injection and FF handling. Unfortunately, this is what is required for wiimote state tracking and what we do with state.lock and input->lock. This deadlock can be triggered when using continuous data reporting and FF on a wiimote device at the same time. I takes me at least 30m of stress-testing to trigger it but users reported considerably shorter times (http://bpaste.net/show/132504/) when using some gaming-console emulators. The real problem is that we have two copies of internal state, one in the wiimote objects and the other in the input device. As the input-lock is not supposed to be accessed from outside of input-core, we have no other chance than offloading FF handling into a worker. This actually works pretty nice and also allows to implictly merge fast rumble changes into a single request. Due to the 3-layered workers (rumble+queue+l2cap) this might reduce FF responsiveness. Initial tests were fine so lets fix the race first and if it turns out to be too slow we can always handle FF out-of-band and skip the queue-worker. Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.11+ Reported-by: Thomas Schneider Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
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