[PATCH v2] coresight: trbe: Defer the probe on offline CPUs

Suzuki K Poulose suzuki.poulose at arm.com
Thu Oct 14 07:22:38 PDT 2021


If a CPU is offline during the driver init, we could end up causing
a kernel crash trying to register the coresight device for the TRBE
instance. The trbe_cpudata for the TRBE instance is initialized only
when it is probed. Otherwise, we could end up dereferencing a NULL
cpudata->drvdata.

e.g:

[    0.149999] coresight ete0: CPU0: ete v1.1 initialized
[    0.149999] coresight-etm4x ete_1: ETM arch init failed
[    0.149999] coresight-etm4x: probe of ete_1 failed with error -22
[    0.150085] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000050
[    0.150085] Mem abort info:
[    0.150085]   ESR = 0x96000005
[    0.150085]   EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
[    0.150085]   SET = 0, FnV = 0
[    0.150085]   EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
[    0.150085] Data abort info:
[    0.150085]   ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000005
[    0.150085]   CM = 0, WnR = 0
[    0.150085] [0000000000000050] user address but active_mm is swapper
[    0.150085] Internal error: Oops: 96000005 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
[    0.150085] Modules linked in:
[    0.150085] Hardware name: FVP Base RevC (DT)
[    0.150085] pstate: 00800009 (nzcv daif -PAN +UAO -TCO BTYPE=--)
[    0.150155] pc : arm_trbe_register_coresight_cpu+0x74/0x144
[    0.150155] lr : arm_trbe_register_coresight_cpu+0x48/0x144
  ...

[    0.150237] Call trace:
[    0.150237]  arm_trbe_register_coresight_cpu+0x74/0x144
[    0.150237]  arm_trbe_device_probe+0x1c0/0x2d8
[    0.150259]  platform_drv_probe+0x94/0xbc
[    0.150259]  really_probe+0x1bc/0x4a8
[    0.150266]  driver_probe_device+0x7c/0xb8
[    0.150266]  device_driver_attach+0x6c/0xac
[    0.150266]  __driver_attach+0xc4/0x148
[    0.150266]  bus_for_each_dev+0x7c/0xc8
[    0.150266]  driver_attach+0x24/0x30
[    0.150266]  bus_add_driver+0x100/0x1e0
[    0.150266]  driver_register+0x78/0x110
[    0.150266]  __platform_driver_register+0x44/0x50
[    0.150266]  arm_trbe_init+0x28/0x84
[    0.150266]  do_one_initcall+0x94/0x2bc
[    0.150266]  do_initcall_level+0xa4/0x158
[    0.150266]  do_initcalls+0x54/0x94
[    0.150319]  do_basic_setup+0x24/0x30
[    0.150319]  kernel_init_freeable+0xe8/0x14c
[    0.150319]  kernel_init+0x14/0x18c
[    0.150319]  ret_from_fork+0x10/0x30
[    0.150319] Code: f94012c8 b0004ce2 9134a442 52819801 (f9402917)
[    0.150319] ---[ end trace d23e0cfe5098535e ]---
[    0.150346] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x0000000b

Fix this by skipping the step, if we are unable to probe the CPU.

Fixes: 3fbf7f011f24 ("coresight: sink: Add TRBE driver")
Reported-by: Bransilav Rankov <branislav.rankov at arm.com>
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual at arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier at linaro.org>
Cc: Mike Leach <mike.leach at linaro.org>
Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan at linaro.org>
Tested-by: Branislav Rankov <branislav.rankov at arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose at arm.com>
---
Changes since v1:
 - Explain why we crash
 - Add a WARN_ON to ensure the probe was successful.
---
 drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-trbe.c | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-trbe.c b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-trbe.c
index 5d350acef798..27225b88a2fc 100644
--- a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-trbe.c
+++ b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-trbe.c
@@ -1182,6 +1182,10 @@ static void arm_trbe_register_coresight_cpu(struct trbe_drvdata *drvdata, int cp
 	if (WARN_ON(trbe_csdev))
 		return;
 
+	/* If the TRBE was not probed on the CPU, we shouldn't be here */
+	if (WARN_ON(!cpudata->drvdata))
+		return;
+
 	dev = &cpudata->drvdata->pdev->dev;
 	desc.name = devm_kasprintf(dev, GFP_KERNEL, "trbe%d", cpu);
 	if (!desc.name)
@@ -1286,7 +1290,9 @@ static int arm_trbe_probe_coresight(struct trbe_drvdata *drvdata)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
 	for_each_cpu(cpu, &drvdata->supported_cpus) {
-		smp_call_function_single(cpu, arm_trbe_probe_cpu, drvdata, 1);
+		/* If we fail to probe the CPU, let us defer it to hotplug callbacks */
+		if (smp_call_function_single(cpu, arm_trbe_probe_cpu, drvdata, 1))
+			continue;
 		if (cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, &drvdata->supported_cpus))
 			arm_trbe_register_coresight_cpu(drvdata, cpu);
 		if (cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, &drvdata->supported_cpus))
-- 
2.25.4




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