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Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2023 19:03:28 +0200
From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>
To: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>
Cc: Bo Ye <bo.ye@...iatek.com>,
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
Amit Kucheria <amitk@...nel.org>,
Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@...el.com>,
Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@...il.com>,
AngeloGioacchino Del Regno
<angelogioacchino.delregno@...labora.com>,
yugang.wang@...iatek.com, yongdong.zhang@...iatek.com,
browse.zhang@...iatek.com, linux-pm@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
linux-mediatek@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Subject: thermal: Fix potential race condition in suspend/resume
On Thu, Oct 12, 2023 at 5:39 PM Daniel Lezcano
<daniel.lezcano@...aro.org> wrote:
>
> On 16/09/2023 13:33, Bo Ye wrote:
> > From: "yugang.wang" <yugang.wang@...iatek.com>
> >
> > Body:
> > This patch fixes a race condition during system resume. It occurs if
> > the system is exiting a suspend state and a user is trying to
> > register/unregister a thermal zone concurrently. The root cause is
> > that both actions access the `thermal_tz_list`.
>
> I'm not sure the tasks are already thawed during POST_RESTORE, so no
> user can unload a driver and then reaching the race window.
Yes, they are.
> Is that an observed issue?
Good question, but the patch looks correct to me.
> > In detail:
> >
> > 1. At PM_POST_SUSPEND during the resume, the system reads all thermal
> > zones in `thermal_tz_list`, then resets and updates their
> > temperatures.
> > 2. When registering/unregistering a thermal zone, the
> > `thermal_tz_list` gets manipulated.
> >
> > These two actions might occur concurrently, causing a race condition.
> > To solve this issue, we introduce a mutex lock to protect
> > `thermal_tz_list` from being modified while it's being read and
> > updated during the resume from suspend.
> >
> > Kernel oops excerpt related to this fix:
> >
> > [ 5201.869845] [T316822] pc: [0xffffffeb7d4876f0] mutex_lock+0x34/0x170
> > [ 5201.869856] [T316822] lr: [0xffffffeb7ca98a84] thermal_pm_notify+0xd4/0x26c
> > [... cut for brevity ...]
> > [ 5201.871061] [T316822] suspend_prepare+0x150/0x470
> > [ 5201.871067] [T316822] enter_state+0x84/0x6f4
> > [ 5201.871076] [T316822] state_store+0x15c/0x1e8
> >
> > Change-Id: Ifdbdecba17093f91eab7e36ce04b46d311ca6568
> > Signed-off-by: yugang.wang <yugang.wang@...iatek.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Bo Ye <bo.ye@...iatek.com>
> > ---
> > drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c | 2 ++
> > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c b/drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c
> > index 8717a3343512..a7a18ed57b6d 100644
> > --- a/drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c
> > +++ b/drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c
> > @@ -1529,12 +1529,14 @@ static int thermal_pm_notify(struct notifier_block *nb,
> > case PM_POST_HIBERNATION:
> > case PM_POST_RESTORE:
> > case PM_POST_SUSPEND:
> > + mutex_lock(&thermal_list_lock);
> > atomic_set(&in_suspend, 0);
> > list_for_each_entry(tz, &thermal_tz_list, node) {
> > thermal_zone_device_init(tz);
> > thermal_zone_device_update(tz,
> > THERMAL_EVENT_UNSPECIFIED);
> > }
> > + mutex_unlock(&thermal_list_lock);
> > break;
> > default:
> > break;
>
> --
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