[PATCH 1/2] optee: fix tee out of memory failure seen during kexec reboot

Allen Pais apais at linux.microsoft.com
Tue Feb 23 11:26:13 EST 2021



>>>> -	/*
>>>> -	 * Ask OP-TEE to free all cached shared memory objects to decrease
>>>> -	 * reference counters and also avoid wild pointers in secure world
>>>> -	 * into the old shared memory range.
>>>> -	 */
>>>> -	optee_disable_shm_cache(optee);
>>>> +	if (shutdown) {
>>>> +		optee_disable_shm_cache(optee);
>>>> +	} else {
>>>> +		/*
>>>> +		 * Ask OP-TEE to free all cached shared memory
>>>> +		 * objects to decrease reference counters and
>>>> +		 * also avoid wild pointers in secure world
>>>> +		 * into the old shared memory range.
>>>> +		 */
>>>> +		optee_disable_shm_cache(optee);
>>> Calling optee_disable_shm_cache() in both if and else. It could be
>>> put in front of if().
>>>
>>
>>    Ideally, I could just use optee_remove for shutdown() too.
>> But it would not look good. Hence this approach.
> 
> What is the problem with using optee_remove() for shutdown()?
> 

  There is no problem, I just thought it would be more cleaner/readable
with this approach. If you'd like to keep it simple by just calling
optee_remove() for shutdown() too, I could quickly send out V2.

Thanks for the review.

- Allen



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