linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/2] tty: serial: msm_serial: Fix lockup for sysrq and oops

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Message-Id: <20191124154334.15366-1-leo.yan@linaro.org>
Date:   Sun, 24 Nov 2019 23:43:33 +0800
From:   Leo Yan <leo.yan@...aro.org>
To:     Andy Gross <agross@...nel.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.com>,
        Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@...aro.org>,
        Stephen Boyd <swboyd@...omium.org>,
        Nicolas Dechesne <nicolas.dechesne@...aro.org>,
        linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org, linux-serial@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Leo Yan <leo.yan@...aro.org>
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] tty: serial: msm_serial: Fix lockup for sysrq and oops

As the commit 677fe555cbfb ("serial: imx: Fix recursive locking bug")
has mentioned the uart driver might cause recursive locking between
normal printing and the kernel debugging facilities (e.g. sysrq and
oops).  In the commit it gave out suggestion for fixing recursive
locking issue: "The solution is to avoid locking in the sysrq case
and trylock in the oops_in_progress case."

This patch follows the suggestion (also used the exactly same code with
other serial drivers, e.g. amba-pl011.c) to fix the recursive locking
issue, this can avoid stuck caused by deadlock and print out log for
sysrq and oops.

Signed-off-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@...aro.org>
---
 drivers/tty/serial/msm_serial.c | 13 +++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/msm_serial.c b/drivers/tty/serial/msm_serial.c
index 3657a24913fc..889538182e83 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/msm_serial.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/msm_serial.c
@@ -1576,6 +1576,7 @@ static void __msm_console_write(struct uart_port *port, const char *s,
 	int num_newlines = 0;
 	bool replaced = false;
 	void __iomem *tf;
+	int locked = 1;
 
 	if (is_uartdm)
 		tf = port->membase + UARTDM_TF;
@@ -1588,7 +1589,13 @@ static void __msm_console_write(struct uart_port *port, const char *s,
 			num_newlines++;
 	count += num_newlines;
 
-	spin_lock(&port->lock);
+	if (port->sysrq)
+		locked = 0;
+	else if (oops_in_progress)
+		locked = spin_trylock(&port->lock);
+	else
+		spin_lock(&port->lock);
+
 	if (is_uartdm)
 		msm_reset_dm_count(port, count);
 
@@ -1624,7 +1631,9 @@ static void __msm_console_write(struct uart_port *port, const char *s,
 		iowrite32_rep(tf, buf, 1);
 		i += num_chars;
 	}
-	spin_unlock(&port->lock);
+
+	if (locked)
+		spin_unlock(&port->lock);
 }
 
 static void msm_console_write(struct console *co, const char *s,
-- 
2.17.1