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Commit effd7c70 authored by Mukesh Ojha's avatar Mukesh Ojha Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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firmware_loader: Abort all upcoming firmware load request once reboot triggered



There could be following scenario where there is a ongoing reboot
is going from processA which tries to call all the reboot notifier
callback and one of them is firmware reboot call which tries to
abort all the ongoing firmware userspace request under fw_lock but
there could be another processB which tries to do request firmware,
which came just after abort done from ProcessA and ask for userspace
to load the firmware and this can stop the ongoing reboot ProcessA
to stall for next 60s(default timeout) which may not be expected
behaviour everyone like to see, instead we should abort any firmware
load request which came once firmware knows about the reboot through
notification.

      ProcessA                             ProcessB

kernel_restart_prepare
  blocking_notifier_call_chain
   fw_shutdown_notify
     kill_pending_fw_fallback_reqs
      __fw_load_abort
       fw_state_aborted                request_firmware
         __fw_state_set                 firmware_fallback_sysfs
...                                       fw_load_from_user_helper
..                                         ...
.                                          ..
                                            usermodehelper_read_trylock
                                             fw_load_sysfs_fallback
                                              fw_sysfs_wait_timeout
usermodehelper_disable
 __usermodehelper_disable
  down_write()

Signed-off-by: default avatarMukesh Ojha <quic_mojha@quicinc.com>
Acked-by: default avatarLuis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1698330459-31776-2-git-send-email-quic_mojha@quicinc.com
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 87ffa98e
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