[PATCH 2/2] drivers: cci: add missing CCI port availability firmware check

Jon Medhurst (Tixy) tixy at linaro.org
Mon Sep 26 05:30:34 PDT 2016


On Fri, 2016-09-23 at 14:09 +0100, Lorenzo Pieralisi wrote:
> The CCI ports programming interface is available to the kernel
> only when booted in secure mode (or when firmware enables
> non-secure access to override CCI ports control). In both cases,
> firmware reports the CCI ports availability through the device
> tree CCI ports nodes, which must be parsed and their status checked
> by the kernel probing path.
> 
> This check is currently missing and may cause the kernel to
> erroneously believe it is free to take control of CCI ports
> where in practice CCI ports control is forbidden.
> 
> Add the missing CCI port availability check to the CCI driver
> in order to guarantee sane CCI usage.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi at arm.com>
> Cc: Liviu Dudau <liviu.dudau at arm.com>
> Cc: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla at arm.com>
> Cc: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre at linaro.org>
> Cc: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose at arm.com>
> Cc: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com>
> ---

Tested-by: Jon Medhurst <tixy at linaro.org>

>  drivers/bus/arm-cci.c | 10 ++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/bus/arm-cci.c b/drivers/bus/arm-cci.c
> index 5755907f..3c7a1c7 100644
> --- a/drivers/bus/arm-cci.c
> +++ b/drivers/bus/arm-cci.c
> @@ -2199,6 +2199,9 @@ static int cci_probe_ports(struct device_node *np)
>  		if (!of_match_node(arm_cci_ctrl_if_matches, cp))
>  			continue;
>  
> +		if (!of_device_is_available(cp))
> +			continue;
> +
>  		i = nb_ace + nb_ace_lite;
>  
>  		if (i >= nb_cci_ports)
> @@ -2241,6 +2244,13 @@ static int cci_probe_ports(struct device_node *np)
>  		ports[i].dn = cp;
>  	}
>  
> +	/*
> +	 * If there is no CCI port that is under kernel control
> +	 * return early and report probe status.
> +	 */
> +	if (!nb_ace && !nb_ace_lite)
> +		return -ENODEV;
> +
>  	 /* initialize a stashed array of ACE ports to speed-up look-up */
>  	cci_ace_init_ports();
>  





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