linux-kernel - [PATCH 5.14 146/172] driver core: fw_devlink: Improve handling of cyclic dependencies

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Message-Id: <20211004125049.685211278@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Mon,  4 Oct 2021 14:53:16 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org,
        Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>,
        Saravana Kannan <saravanak@...gle.com>
Subject: [PATCH 5.14 146/172] driver core: fw_devlink: Improve handling of cyclic dependencies

From: Saravana Kannan <saravanak@...gle.com>

commit 2de9d8e0d2fe3a1eb632def2245529067cb35db5 upstream.

When we have a dependency of the form:

Device-A -> Device-C
	Device-B

Device-C -> Device-B

Where,
* Indentation denotes "child of" parent in previous line.
* X -> Y denotes X is consumer of Y based on firmware (Eg: DT).

We have cyclic dependency: device-A -> device-C -> device-B -> device-A

fw_devlink current treats device-C -> device-B dependency as an invalid
dependency and doesn't enforce it but leaves the rest of the
dependencies as is.

While the current behavior is necessary, it is not sufficient if the
false dependency in this example is actually device-A -> device-C. When
this is the case, device-C will correctly probe defer waiting for
device-B to be added, but device-A will be incorrectly probe deferred by
fw_devlink waiting on device-C to probe successfully. Due to this, none
of the devices in the cycle will end up probing.

To fix this, we need to go relax all the dependencies in the cycle like
we already do in the other instances where fw_devlink detects cycles.
A real world example of this was reported[1] and analyzed[2].

[1] - https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/0a2c4106-7f48-2bb5-048e-8c001a7c3fda@samsung.com/
[2] - https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAGETcx8peaew90SWiux=TyvuGgvTQOmO4BFALz7aj0Za5QdNFQ@mail.gmail.com/

Fixes: f9aa460672c9 ("driver core: Refactor fw_devlink feature")
Cc: stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Reported-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>
Tested-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>
Signed-off-by: Saravana Kannan <saravanak@...gle.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210915170940.617415-2-saravanak@google.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/base/core.c |   17 ++++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/base/core.c
+++ b/drivers/base/core.c
@@ -1790,14 +1790,21 @@ static int fw_devlink_create_devlink(str
 	 * be broken by applying logic. Check for these types of cycles and
 	 * break them so that devices in the cycle probe properly.
 	 *
-	 * If the supplier's parent is dependent on the consumer, then
-	 * the consumer-supplier dependency is a false dependency. So,
-	 * treat it as an invalid link.
+	 * If the supplier's parent is dependent on the consumer, then the
+	 * consumer and supplier have a cyclic dependency. Since fw_devlink
+	 * can't tell which of the inferred dependencies are incorrect, don't
+	 * enforce probe ordering between any of the devices in this cyclic
+	 * dependency. Do this by relaxing all the fw_devlink device links in
+	 * this cycle and by treating the fwnode link between the consumer and
+	 * the supplier as an invalid dependency.
 	 */
 	sup_dev = fwnode_get_next_parent_dev(sup_handle);
 	if (sup_dev && device_is_dependent(con, sup_dev)) {
-		dev_dbg(con, "Not linking to %pfwP - False link\n",
-			sup_handle);
+		dev_info(con, "Fixing up cyclic dependency with %pfwP (%s)\n",
+			 sup_handle, dev_name(sup_dev));
+		device_links_write_lock();
+		fw_devlink_relax_cycle(con, sup_dev);
+		device_links_write_unlock();
 		ret = -EINVAL;
 	} else {
 		/*