linux-kernel - Re: [v3 PATCH 6/8] clocksource/drivers/riscv: Add required checks during clock source init

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Message-ID: <20190208090405.GC16932@infradead.org>
Date:   Fri, 8 Feb 2019 01:04:05 -0800
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     Atish Patra <atish.patra@....com>
Cc:     linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org,
        Patrick Stählin <me@...ki.ch>,
        Albert Ou <aou@...s.berkeley.edu>,
        Damien Le Moal <Damien.LeMoal@....com>,
        Jason Cooper <jason@...edaemon.net>,
        Alan Kao <alankao@...estech.com>,
        Dmitriy Cherkasov <dmitriy@...-tech.org>,
        Anup Patel <anup@...infault.org>,
        Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Zong Li <zongbox@...il.com>,
        Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...ive.com>,
        Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@...ive.com>,
        Andreas Schwab <schwab@...e.de>,
        Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [v3 PATCH 6/8] clocksource/drivers/riscv: Add required checks
 during clock source init

On Thu, Feb 07, 2019 at 05:51:19PM -0800, Atish Patra wrote:
> Currently, clocksource registration happens for an invalid cpu
> for non-smp kernels. This lead to kernel panic as cpu hotplug
> registration will fail for those cpus. Moreover,
> riscv_hartid_to_cpuid can return errors now.
> 
> Do not proceed if hartid or cpuid is invalid. Take this opprtunity
> to print appropriate error strings for different failure cases.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Atish Patra <atish.patra@....com>
> ---
>  drivers/clocksource/timer-riscv.c | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++---
>  1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/clocksource/timer-riscv.c b/drivers/clocksource/timer-riscv.c
> index 43189220..3c7ea75b 100644
> --- a/drivers/clocksource/timer-riscv.c
> +++ b/drivers/clocksource/timer-riscv.c
> @@ -95,13 +95,30 @@ static int __init riscv_timer_init_dt(struct device_node *n)
>  	struct clocksource *cs;
>  
>  	hartid = riscv_of_processor_hartid(n);
> +	if (hartid < 0) {
> +		pr_warn("Not valid hartid for node [%pOF] error = [%d]\n",
> +			n, hartid);
> +		return hartid;
> +	}
> +
>  	cpuid = riscv_hartid_to_cpuid(hartid);
> +	if (cpuid < 0) {
> +		pr_warn("Invalid cpuid for hartid [%d]\n", hartid);
> +		return cpuid;
> +	}
>  
>  	if (cpuid != smp_processor_id())
>  		return 0;
>  
> +	pr_err("%s: Registering clocksource cpuid [%d] hartid [%d]\n",
> +	       __func__, cpuid, hartid);

This does not look like an error case to me.  At best it is info,
if not debug.