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Message-ID: <efd8b7d7-cc8d-11e0-4c56-428423bd7aff@roeck-us.net>
Date:   Tue, 6 Sep 2016 22:50:38 -0700
From:   Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
To:     Hoan Tran <hotran@....com>
Cc:     Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.com>, linux-hwmon@...r.kernel.org,
        lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Itaru Kitayama <itaru.kitayama@...en.jp>, Loc Ho <lho@....com>,
        Duc Dang <dhdang@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hwmon: xgene: Fix crash when alarm occurs before driver
 probe

On 09/06/2016 10:21 PM, Hoan Tran wrote:
> Hi Guenter,
>
> Thank for your quick review !
>
> On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 9:35 PM, Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net> wrote:
>> On 09/06/2016 08:46 PM, Hoan Tran wrote:
>>>
>>> The system crashes during probing xgene-hwmon driver when temperature
>>> alarm interrupt occurs before.
>>> It's because
>>>  - xgene_hwmon_probe() requests PCC mailbox channel which also enables
>>> the mailbox interrupt.
>>>  - As temperature alarm interrupt is pending, ISR runs and crashes when
>>> accesses
>>> into invalid resource as unmapped PCC shared memory.
>>>
>>> This patch fixes this issue by saving this alarm message and scheduling a
>>> bottom handler after xgene_hwmon_probe() finish.
>>>
>>
>> I am not completely happy with this fix. Main problem I have is that the
>> processing associated with resp_pending doesn't happen until init_flag is
>> set.
>> Since the hwmon functions can be called right after
>> hwmon_device_register_with_groups(),
>> there is now a new race condition between that call and setting init_flag.
>
> I think it's still good if hwmon functions are called right after
> hwmon_device_register_with_groups().
> The response message will be queued into FIFO and be processed later.
>
Yes, but the call to complete() won't happen in this case, or am I missing
something ?

Guenter

>>
>> I am also a bit concerned with init_flag and rx_pending not being atomic and
>> protected.
>> What happens if a second interrupt occurs right after init_flag is set but
>> before
>> (or while) rx_pending is evaluated ?
>
> Yah, that's a good catch. I can re-use the "kfifo_lock" spinlock for
> this atomic protection.
>
>>
>> On top of that, init_flag and thus the added complexity is (unless I am
>> missing
>> something) only needed if acpi is enabled. Penaltizing non-acpi code doesn't
>> seem
>> to be optimal.
>
> I think, with DT, we still need this flag. In a case of temperature
> alarm, the driver needs to set "temp1_critical_alarm" sysfs.
> This "temp1_critical_alarm" should be created before "init_flag" = true.
>
> Thanks
> Hoan
>
>>
>> How do other drivers handle this situation ? This must be a common problem
>> with all mbox users.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Guenter
>>
>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Hoan Tran <hotran@....com>
>>> Reported-by: Itaru Kitayama <itaru.kitayama@...en.jp>
>>> ---
>>>  drivers/hwmon/xgene-hwmon.c | 75
>>> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
>>>  1 file changed, 56 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/xgene-hwmon.c b/drivers/hwmon/xgene-hwmon.c
>>> index bc78a5d..e3b4e84 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/hwmon/xgene-hwmon.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/hwmon/xgene-hwmon.c
>>> @@ -107,6 +107,8 @@ struct xgene_hwmon_dev {
>>>         struct completion       rd_complete;
>>>         int                     resp_pending;
>>>         struct slimpro_resp_msg sync_msg;
>>> +       bool                    init_flag;
>>> +       bool                    rx_pending;
>>>
>>>         struct work_struct      workq;
>>>         struct kfifo_rec_ptr_1  async_msg_fifo;
>>> @@ -465,13 +467,35 @@ static void xgene_hwmon_evt_work(struct work_struct
>>> *work)
>>>         }
>>>  }
>>>
>>> +static int xgene_hwmon_rx_ready(struct xgene_hwmon_dev *ctx, void *msg)
>>> +{
>>> +       if (!ctx->init_flag) {
>>> +               ctx->rx_pending = true;
>>> +               /* Enqueue to the FIFO */
>>> +               kfifo_in_spinlocked(&ctx->async_msg_fifo, msg,
>>> +                                   sizeof(struct slimpro_resp_msg),
>>> +                                   &ctx->kfifo_lock);
>>> +               return -EBUSY;
>>> +       }
>>> +
>>> +       return 0;
>>> +}
>>> +
>>>  /*
>>>   * This function is called when the SLIMpro Mailbox received a message
>>>   */
>>>  static void xgene_hwmon_rx_cb(struct mbox_client *cl, void *msg)
>>>  {
>>>         struct xgene_hwmon_dev *ctx = to_xgene_hwmon_dev(cl);
>>> -       struct slimpro_resp_msg amsg;
>>> +
>>> +       /*
>>> +        * While the driver registers with the mailbox framework, an
>>> interrupt
>>> +        * can be pending before the probe function completes its
>>> +        * initialization. If such condition occurs, just queue up the
>>> message
>>> +        * as the driver is not ready for servicing the callback.
>>> +        */
>>> +       if (xgene_hwmon_rx_ready(ctx, msg) < 0)
>>> +               return;
>>>
>>>         /*
>>>          * Response message format:
>>> @@ -500,12 +524,8 @@ static void xgene_hwmon_rx_cb(struct mbox_client *cl,
>>> void *msg)
>>>                 return;
>>>         }
>>>
>>> -       amsg.msg   = ((u32 *)msg)[0];
>>> -       amsg.param1 = ((u32 *)msg)[1];
>>> -       amsg.param2 = ((u32 *)msg)[2];
>>> -
>>>         /* Enqueue to the FIFO */
>>> -       kfifo_in_spinlocked(&ctx->async_msg_fifo, &amsg,
>>> +       kfifo_in_spinlocked(&ctx->async_msg_fifo, msg,
>>>                             sizeof(struct slimpro_resp_msg),
>>> &ctx->kfifo_lock);
>>>         /* Schedule the bottom handler */
>>>         schedule_work(&ctx->workq);
>>> @@ -520,6 +540,15 @@ static void xgene_hwmon_pcc_rx_cb(struct mbox_client
>>> *cl, void *msg)
>>>         struct acpi_pcct_shared_memory *generic_comm_base =
>>> ctx->pcc_comm_addr;
>>>         struct slimpro_resp_msg amsg;
>>>
>>> +       /*
>>> +        * While the driver registers with the mailbox framework, an
>>> interrupt
>>> +        * can be pending before the probe function completes its
>>> +        * initialization. If such condition occurs, just queue up the
>>> message
>>> +        * as the driver is not ready for servicing the callback.
>>> +        */
>>> +       if (xgene_hwmon_rx_ready(ctx, &amsg) < 0)
>>> +               return;
>>> +
>>>         msg = generic_comm_base + 1;
>>>         /* Check if platform sends interrupt */
>>>         if (!xgene_word_tst_and_clr(&generic_comm_base->status,
>>> @@ -596,6 +625,17 @@ static int xgene_hwmon_probe(struct platform_device
>>> *pdev)
>>>         platform_set_drvdata(pdev, ctx);
>>>         cl = &ctx->mbox_client;
>>>
>>> +       spin_lock_init(&ctx->kfifo_lock);
>>> +       mutex_init(&ctx->rd_mutex);
>>> +
>>> +       rc = kfifo_alloc(&ctx->async_msg_fifo,
>>> +                        sizeof(struct slimpro_resp_msg) *
>>> ASYNC_MSG_FIFO_SIZE,
>>> +                        GFP_KERNEL);
>>> +       if (rc)
>>> +               goto out_mbox_free;
>>> +
>>> +       INIT_WORK(&ctx->workq, xgene_hwmon_evt_work);
>>> +
>>>         /* Request mailbox channel */
>>>         cl->dev = &pdev->dev;
>>>         cl->tx_done = xgene_hwmon_tx_done;
>>> @@ -676,17 +716,6 @@ static int xgene_hwmon_probe(struct platform_device
>>> *pdev)
>>>                 ctx->usecs_lat = PCC_NUM_RETRIES * cppc_ss->latency;
>>>         }
>>>
>>> -       spin_lock_init(&ctx->kfifo_lock);
>>> -       mutex_init(&ctx->rd_mutex);
>>> -
>>> -       rc = kfifo_alloc(&ctx->async_msg_fifo,
>>> -                        sizeof(struct slimpro_resp_msg) *
>>> ASYNC_MSG_FIFO_SIZE,
>>> -                        GFP_KERNEL);
>>> -       if (rc)
>>> -               goto out_mbox_free;
>>> -
>>> -       INIT_WORK(&ctx->workq, xgene_hwmon_evt_work);
>>> -
>>>         ctx->hwmon_dev = hwmon_device_register_with_groups(ctx->dev,
>>>                                                            "apm_xgene",
>>>                                                            ctx,
>>> @@ -697,17 +726,25 @@ static int xgene_hwmon_probe(struct platform_device
>>> *pdev)
>>>                 goto out;
>>>         }
>>>
>>> +       ctx->init_flag = true;
>>> +       if (ctx->rx_pending) {
>>> +               /*
>>> +                * If there is a pending message, schedule the bottom
>>> handler
>>> +                */
>>> +               schedule_work(&ctx->workq);
>>> +       }
>>> +
>>>         dev_info(&pdev->dev, "APM X-Gene SoC HW monitor driver
>>> registered\n");
>>>
>>>         return 0;
>>>
>>>  out:
>>> -       kfifo_free(&ctx->async_msg_fifo);
>>> -out_mbox_free:
>>>         if (acpi_disabled)
>>>                 mbox_free_channel(ctx->mbox_chan);
>>>         else
>>>                 pcc_mbox_free_channel(ctx->mbox_chan);
>>> +out_mbox_free:
>>> +       kfifo_free(&ctx->async_msg_fifo);
>>>
>>>         return rc;
>>>  }
>>>
>>
>

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