linux-kernel - [PATCH] earlycon: prevent multiple register

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Message-Id: <20220601135528.3176471-1-michael@walle.cc>
Date:   Wed,  1 Jun 2022 15:55:28 +0200
From:   Michael Walle <michael@...le.cc>
To:     Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Frank Rowand <frowand.list@...il.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...nel.org>
Cc:     devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-serial@...r.kernel.org, Michael Walle <michael@...le.cc>
Subject: [PATCH] earlycon: prevent multiple register_console()

If the earlycon parameter is given twice, the kernel will spit out a
WARN() in register_console() because it was already registered. The
non-dt variant setup_earlycon() already handles that gracefully. The dt
variant of_setup_earlycon() doesn't. Add the check there and propagate
it through early_init_dt_scan_chosen_stdout().

FWIW, this doesn't happen if CONFIG_ACPI_SPCR_TABLE is set. In that case
the registration is delayed until after earlycon parameter(s) are
parsed.

Signed-off-by: Michael Walle <michael@...le.cc>
---

I'm not sure if this should have a Fixes tag or not. If so I guess it
should be the very first commit which introduced the support (commit
fb11ffe74c79 ("of/fdt: add FDT serial scanning for earlycon")).

For the curious, here is the backtrace:

[    0.000000] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[    0.000000] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 0 at kernel/printk/printk.c:3328 register_console+0x2b4/0x364
[    0.000000] console 'atmel_serial0' already registered
[    0.000000] Modules linked in:
[    0.000000] CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 5.18.0-next-20220601+ #652
[    0.000000] Hardware name: Generic DT based system
[    0.000000] Backtrace: 
[    0.000000]  dump_backtrace from show_stack+0x18/0x1c
[    0.000000]  show_stack from dump_stack_lvl+0x48/0x54
[    0.000000]  dump_stack_lvl from dump_stack+0x18/0x1c
[    0.000000]  dump_stack from __warn+0xd0/0x148
[    0.000000]  __warn from warn_slowpath_fmt+0x9c/0xc4
[    0.000000]  warn_slowpath_fmt from register_console+0x2b4/0x364
[    0.000000]  register_console from of_setup_earlycon+0x29c/0x2ac
[    0.000000]  of_setup_earlycon from early_init_dt_scan_chosen_stdout+0x154/0x18c
[    0.000000]  early_init_dt_scan_chosen_stdout from param_setup_earlycon+0x40/0x48
[    0.000000]  param_setup_earlycon from do_early_param+0x88/0xc4
[    0.000000]  do_early_param from parse_args+0x1a4/0x404
[    0.000000]  parse_args from parse_early_options+0x40/0x48
[    0.000000]  parse_early_options from parse_early_param+0x38/0x48
[    0.000000]  parse_early_param from setup_arch+0x114/0x7a4
[    0.000000]  setup_arch from start_kernel+0x74/0x6dc
[    0.000000]  start_kernel from 0x0
[    0.000000] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

 drivers/of/fdt.c              | 6 ++++--
 drivers/tty/serial/earlycon.c | 5 ++++-
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/of/fdt.c b/drivers/of/fdt.c
index a8f5b6532165..7f3524213b43 100644
--- a/drivers/of/fdt.c
+++ b/drivers/of/fdt.c
@@ -1025,6 +1025,7 @@ int __init early_init_dt_scan_chosen_stdout(void)
 	int l;
 	const struct earlycon_id *match;
 	const void *fdt = initial_boot_params;
+	int ret;
 
 	offset = fdt_path_offset(fdt, "/chosen");
 	if (offset < 0)
@@ -1057,8 +1058,9 @@ int __init early_init_dt_scan_chosen_stdout(void)
 		if (fdt_node_check_compatible(fdt, offset, match->compatible))
 			continue;
 
-		if (of_setup_earlycon(match, offset, options) == 0)
-			return 0;
+		ret = of_setup_earlycon(match, offset, options);
+		if (!ret || ret == -EALREADY)
+			return ret;
 	}
 	return -ENODEV;
 }
diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/earlycon.c b/drivers/tty/serial/earlycon.c
index 57c70851f22a..59fedf7be572 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/earlycon.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/earlycon.c
@@ -230,7 +230,10 @@ static int __init param_setup_earlycon(char *buf)
 			earlycon_acpi_spcr_enable = true;
 			return 0;
 		} else if (!buf) {
-			return early_init_dt_scan_chosen_stdout();
+			err = early_init_dt_scan_chosen_stdout();
+			if (err == -EALREADY)
+				return 0;
+			return err;
 		}
 	}
 
-- 
2.30.2