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Commit 79175b6e authored by Srinivas Pandruvada's avatar Srinivas Pandruvada Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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platform/x86: ISST: Fix possible circular locking dependency detected



[ Upstream commit 17da2d5f ]

As reported:

[  256.104522] ======================================================
[  256.113783] WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected
[  256.120093] 5.16.0-rc6-yocto-standard+ #99 Not tainted
[  256.125362] ------------------------------------------------------
[  256.131673] intel-speed-sel/844 is trying to acquire lock:
[  256.137290] ffffffffc036f0d0 (punit_misc_dev_lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: isst_if_open+0x18/0x90 [isst_if_common]
[  256.147171]
[  256.147171] but task is already holding lock:
[  256.153135] ffffffff8ee7cb50 (misc_mtx){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: misc_open+0x2a/0x170
[  256.160407]
[  256.160407] which lock already depends on the new lock.
[  256.160407]
[  256.168712]
[  256.168712] the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is:
[  256.176327]
[  256.176327] -> #1 (misc_mtx){+.+.}-{3:3}:
[  256.181946]        lock_acquire+0x1e6/0x330
[  256.186265]        __mutex_lock+0x9b/0x9b0
[  256.190497]        mutex_lock_nested+0x1b/0x20
[  256.195075]        misc_register+0x32/0x1a0
[  256.199390]        isst_if_cdev_register+0x65/0x180 [isst_if_common]
[  256.205878]        isst_if_probe+0x144/0x16e [isst_if_mmio]
...
[  256.241976]
[  256.241976] -> #0 (punit_misc_dev_lock){+.+.}-{3:3}:
[  256.248552]        validate_chain+0xbc6/0x1750
[  256.253131]        __lock_acquire+0x88c/0xc10
[  256.257618]        lock_acquire+0x1e6/0x330
[  256.261933]        __mutex_lock+0x9b/0x9b0
[  256.266165]        mutex_lock_nested+0x1b/0x20
[  256.270739]        isst_if_open+0x18/0x90 [isst_if_common]
[  256.276356]        misc_open+0x100/0x170
[  256.280409]        chrdev_open+0xa5/0x1e0
...

The call sequence suggested that misc_device /dev file can be opened
before misc device is yet to be registered, which is done only once.

Here punit_misc_dev_lock was used as common lock, to protect the
registration by multiple ISST HW drivers, one time setup, prevent
duplicate registry of misc device and prevent load/unload when device
is open.

We can split into locks:
- One which just prevent duplicate call to misc_register() and one
time setup. Also never call again if the misc_register() failed or
required one time setup is failed. This lock is not shared with
any misc device callbacks.

- The other lock protects registry, load and unload of HW drivers.

Sequence in isst_if_cdev_register()
- Register callbacks under punit_misc_dev_open_lock
- Call isst_misc_reg() which registers misc_device on the first
registry which is under punit_misc_dev_reg_lock, which is not
shared with callbacks.

Sequence in isst_if_cdev_unregister
Just opposite of isst_if_cdev_register

Reported-and-tested-by: default avatarLiwei Song <liwei.song@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSrinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220112022521.54669-1-srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com


Reviewed-by: default avatarHans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarHans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
parent 066c905e
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