linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.19 201/287] coresight: cpu-debug: Replace mutex with mutex

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Date:   Mon, 13 Jun 2022 12:10:25 +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, Leo Yan <leo.yan@...aro.org>,
        Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@...aro.org>,
        Mike Leach <mike.leach@...aro.org>,
        Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@....com>,
        "Guilherme G. Piccoli" <gpiccoli@...lia.com>,
        Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 4.19 201/287] coresight: cpu-debug: Replace mutex with mutex_trylock on panic notifier

From: Guilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli@...lia.com>

[ Upstream commit 1adff542d67a2ed1120955cb219bfff8a9c53f59 ]

The panic notifier infrastructure executes registered callbacks when
a panic event happens - such callbacks are executed in atomic context,
with interrupts and preemption disabled in the running CPU and all other
CPUs disabled. That said, mutexes in such context are not a good idea.

This patch replaces a regular mutex with a mutex_trylock safer approach;
given the nature of the mutex used in the driver, it should be pretty
uncommon being unable to acquire such mutex in the panic path, hence
no functional change should be observed (and if it is, that would be
likely a deadlock with the regular mutex).

Fixes: 2227b7c74634 ("coresight: add support for CPU debug module")
Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@...aro.org>
Cc: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@...aro.org>
Cc: Mike Leach <mike.leach@...aro.org>
Cc: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@....com>
Signed-off-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli@...lia.com>
Reviewed-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@....com>
Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@....com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220427224924.592546-10-gpiccoli@igalia.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
---
 drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-cpu-debug.c | 7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-cpu-debug.c b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-cpu-debug.c
index e8819d750938..a4eba09691b4 100644
--- a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-cpu-debug.c
+++ b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-cpu-debug.c
@@ -379,9 +379,10 @@ static int debug_notifier_call(struct notifier_block *self,
 	int cpu;
 	struct debug_drvdata *drvdata;
 
-	mutex_lock(&debug_lock);
+	/* Bail out if we can't acquire the mutex or the functionality is off */
+	if (!mutex_trylock(&debug_lock))
+		return NOTIFY_DONE;
 
-	/* Bail out if the functionality is disabled */
 	if (!debug_enable)
 		goto skip_dump;
 
@@ -400,7 +401,7 @@ static int debug_notifier_call(struct notifier_block *self,
 
 skip_dump:
 	mutex_unlock(&debug_lock);
-	return 0;
+	return NOTIFY_DONE;
 }
 
 static struct notifier_block debug_notifier = {
-- 
2.35.1