linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v7 3/4] drivers/acpi: Introduce Platform Firmware Runtime Update Telemetry

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Date:   Wed, 27 Oct 2021 13:45:00 +0300
From:   Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...el.com>
To:     Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@...el.com>
Cc:     linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
        Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>, Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>,
        Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@...el.com>,
        Mike Rapoport <rppt@...nel.org>,
        Aubrey Li <aubrey.li@...el.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 3/4] drivers/acpi: Introduce Platform Firmware Runtime
 Update Telemetry

On Wed, Oct 27, 2021 at 03:08:05PM +0800, Chen Yu wrote:
> Platform Firmware Runtime Update(PFRU) Telemetry Service is part of RoT
> (Root of Trust), which allows PFRU handler and other PFRU drivers to
> produce telemetry data to upper layer OS consumer at runtime.
> 
> The linux provides interfaces for the user to query the parameters of

Linux kernel

> telemetry data, and the user could read out the telemetry data
> accordingly.
> 
> The corresponding userspace tool and man page will be introduced at
> tools/power/acpi/pfru.

...

> +#include <linux/acpi.h>
> +#include <linux/device.h>
> +#include <linux/err.h>
> +#include <linux/errno.h>
> +#include <linux/file.h>
> +#include <linux/fs.h>
> +#include <linux/miscdevice.h>
> +#include <linux/module.h>
> +#include <linux/mm.h>
> +#include <linux/platform_device.h>
> +#include <linux/string.h>
> +#include <linux/uaccess.h>
> +#include <linux/uio.h>
> +#include <linux/uuid.h>

+ blank line?

> +#include <uapi/linux/pfru.h>

...

> +static DEFINE_IDA(pfru_log_ida);

Do you need any mutex against operations on IDA? (I don't remember
if it incorporates any synchronization primitives).

...

Looking into the code I have feelings of déjà-vu. Has it really had
nothing in common with the previous patch?

...

> +static int valid_log_level(int level)
> +{
> +	return level == LOG_ERR || level == LOG_WARN ||
> +		level == LOG_INFO || level == LOG_VERB;

Indentation.

> +}

...


This ordering in ->probe() is not okay:
	devm_*()
	non-devm_*()
	devm_*()
	non-devm_*()

One mustn't interleave these. The allowed are:

Case 1:
	non-devm_*()

Case 2:
	devm_*()

Case 3:
	devm_*()
	non-devm_*()

Otherwise in ->remove() you have wrong release ordering which may hide
subtle bugs.

Above comment is applicable to the other patch as well as some comments
from there are applicable here.

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko