linux-kernel - [PATCH v1] serial: meson: acquire port->lock in startup()

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Date:   Sun,  8 May 2022 12:41:47 +0206
From:   John Ogness <john.ogness@...utronix.de>
To:     "Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Neil Armstrong <narmstrong@...libre.com>,
        Kevin Hilman <khilman@...libre.com>
Cc:     Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@...omium.org>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...nel.org>,
        Jerome Brunet <jbrunet@...libre.com>,
        Martin Blumenstingl <martin.blumenstingl@...glemail.com>,
        linux-serial@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-amlogic@...ts.infradead.org,
        Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>
Subject: [PATCH v1] serial: meson: acquire port->lock in startup()

The uart_ops startup() callback is called without interrupts
disabled and without port->lock locked, relatively late during the
boot process (from the call path of console_on_rootfs()). If the
device is a console, it was already previously registered and could
be actively printing messages.

Since the startup() callback is reading/writing registers used by
the console write() callback (AML_UART_CONTROL), its access must
be synchronized using the port->lock. Currently it is not.

The startup() callback is the only function that explicitly enables
interrupts. Without the synchronization, it is possible that
interrupts become accidentally permanently disabled.

CPU0                           CPU1
meson_serial_console_write     meson_uart_startup
--------------------------     ------------------
spin_lock(port->lock)
val = readl(AML_UART_CONTROL)
uart_console_write()
                               writel(INT_EN, AML_UART_CONTROL)
writel(val, AML_UART_CONTROL)
spin_unlock(port->lock)

Add port->lock synchronization to meson_uart_startup() to avoid
racing with meson_serial_console_write().

Also add detailed comments to meson_uart_reset() explaining why it
is *not* using port->lock synchronization.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/2a82eae7-a256-f70c-fd82-4e510750906e@samsung.com
Reported-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>
Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@...utronix.de>
Tested-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>
---
 drivers/tty/serial/meson_uart.c | 13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/meson_uart.c b/drivers/tty/serial/meson_uart.c
index 2bf1c57e0981..39021dac09cc 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/meson_uart.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/meson_uart.c
@@ -253,6 +253,14 @@ static const char *meson_uart_type(struct uart_port *port)
 	return (port->type == PORT_MESON) ? "meson_uart" : NULL;
 }
 
+/*
+ * This function is called only from probe() using a temporary io mapping
+ * in order to perform a reset before setting up the device. Since the
+ * temporarily mapped region was successfully requested, there can be no
+ * console on this port at this time. Hence it is not necessary for this
+ * function to acquire the port->lock. (Since there is no console on this
+ * port at this time, the port->lock is not initialized yet.)
+ */
 static void meson_uart_reset(struct uart_port *port)
 {
 	u32 val;
@@ -267,9 +275,12 @@ static void meson_uart_reset(struct uart_port *port)
 
 static int meson_uart_startup(struct uart_port *port)
 {
+	unsigned long flags;
 	u32 val;
 	int ret = 0;
 
+	spin_lock_irqsave(&port->lock, flags);
+
 	val = readl(port->membase + AML_UART_CONTROL);
 	val |= AML_UART_CLEAR_ERR;
 	writel(val, port->membase + AML_UART_CONTROL);
@@ -285,6 +296,8 @@ static int meson_uart_startup(struct uart_port *port)
 	val = (AML_UART_RECV_IRQ(1) | AML_UART_XMIT_IRQ(port->fifosize / 2));
 	writel(val, port->membase + AML_UART_MISC);
 
+	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&port->lock, flags);
+
 	ret = request_irq(port->irq, meson_uart_interrupt, 0,
 			  port->name, port);
 

base-commit: 672c0c5173427e6b3e2a9bbb7be51ceeec78093a
-- 
2.30.2