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Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2024 22:01:42 +0200
From: Stefan Wahren <wahrenst@....net>
To: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@...asonboard.com>,
 Umang Jain <umang.jain@...asonboard.com>,
 Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@...adcom.com>,
 linux-rpi-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Cc: Broadcom internal kernel review list
 <bcm-kernel-feedback-list@...adcom.com>,
 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
 Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@...asonboard.com>,
 Dave Stevenson <dave.stevenson@...pberrypi.org>, detule
 <ogjoneski@...il.com>, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...aro.org>,
 "moderated list:BROADCOM BCM2711/BCM2835 ARM ARCHITECTURE"
 <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
 "open list:STAGING SUBSYSTEM" <linux-staging@...ts.linux.dev>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: vc04_services: vchiq_arm: Fix initialisation
 check

Hi Kieran,

Am 13.06.24 um 21:41 schrieb Kieran Bingham:
> The vchiq_state used to be obtained through an accessor
> which would validate that the VCHIQ had been initialised
> correctly with the remote.
>
> In commit 42a2f6664e18 ("staging: vc04_services: Move global g_state to
> vchiq_state") the global state was moved to the vchiq_mgnt structures
> stored as a vchiq instance specific context. This conversion removed the
> helpers and instead replaced users of this helper with the assumption
> that the state is always available and the remote connected.
>
> Fix this broken assumption by re-introducing the logic that was lost
> during the conversion.
thank you for sending this patch. Maybe it's worth to mention that this
patch also drop some unnecessary NULL checks of state.
>
> Fixes: 42a2f6664e18 ("staging: vc04_services: Move global g_state to vchiq_state")
> Signed-off-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@...asonboard.com>
> ---
>   .../staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_arm.c  | 4 ++--
>   .../staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_core.h | 5 +++++
>   .../staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_dev.c  | 7 ++++++-
>   3 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_arm.c b/drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_arm.c
> index 54467be8c371..67d853f5f2a0 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_arm.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_arm.c
> @@ -804,7 +804,7 @@ int vchiq_initialise(struct vchiq_state *state, struct vchiq_instance **instance
>   	 * block forever.
>   	 */
>   	for (i = 0; i < VCHIQ_INIT_RETRIES; i++) {
> -		if (state)
> +		if (vchiq_remote_initialised(state))
>   			break;
>   		usleep_range(500, 600);
>   	}
> @@ -1299,7 +1299,7 @@ void vchiq_dump_platform_instances(struct vchiq_state *state, struct seq_file *f
>   {
>   	int i;
>
> -	if (!state)
> +	if (!vchiq_remote_initialised(state))
>   		return;
>
>   	/*
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_core.h b/drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_core.h
> index 8af209e34fb2..382ec08f6a14 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_core.h
> +++ b/drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_core.h
> @@ -413,6 +413,11 @@ struct vchiq_state {
>   	struct opaque_platform_state *platform_state;
>   };
>
> +static inline bool vchiq_remote_initialised(const struct vchiq_state *state)
> +{
> +	return state->remote && state->remote->initialised;
> +}
> +
>   struct bulk_waiter {
>   	struct vchiq_bulk *bulk;
>   	struct completion event;
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_dev.c b/drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_dev.c
> index 3c63347d2d08..8c4830df1070 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_dev.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_dev.c
> @@ -1170,6 +1170,11 @@ static int vchiq_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
>
>   	dev_dbg(state->dev, "arm: vchiq open\n");
>
> +	if (!vchiq_remote_initialised(state)) {
> +		dev_err(state->dev, "arm: vchiq has no connection to VideoCore\n");
Can you please downgrade the log level to dev_dbg, because vchiq_open is
called from userspace, so we can prevent log spamming?
> +		return -ENOTCONN;
> +	}
> +
>   	instance = kzalloc(sizeof(*instance), GFP_KERNEL);
>   	if (!instance)
>   		return -ENOMEM;
> @@ -1200,7 +1205,7 @@ static int vchiq_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
>
>   	dev_dbg(state->dev, "arm: instance=%p\n", instance);
>
> -	if (!state) {
> +	if (!vchiq_remote_initialised(state)) {
>   		ret = -EPERM;
>   		goto out;
>   	}