[PATCH] coresight: configfs: Fix unload of configurations on module exit

Mike Leach mike.leach at linaro.org
Mon May 30 10:17:17 PDT 2022


Any loaded configurations must be correctly unloaded on coresight module
exit, or issues can arise with nested locking in the configfs directory
code if built with CONFIG_LOCKDEP.

Prior to this patch, the preloaded configuration configfs directory entries
were being unloaded by the recursive code in
configfs_unregister_subsystem().

However, when built with CONFIG_LOCKDEP, this caused a nested lock warning,
which was not mitigated by the LOCKDEP dependent code in fs/configfs/dir.c
designed to prevent this, due to the different directory levels for the
root of the directory being removed.

As the preloaded (and all other) configurations are registered after
configfs_register_subsystem(), we now explicitly unload them before the
call to configfs_unregister_subsystem().

The new routine cscfg_unload_cfgs_on_exit() iterates through the load
owner list to unload any remaining configurations that were not unloaded
by the user before the module exits. This covers both the
CSCFG_OWNER_PRELOAD and CSCFG_OWNER_MODULE owner types, and will be
extended to cover future load owner types for CoreSight configurations.

Applies to coresight/next

Fixes: eb2ec49606c2 ("coresight: syscfg: Update load API for config loadable modules")
Reported-by: Suzuki Poulose <suzuki.poulose at arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Leach <mike.leach at linaro.org>
---
 .../hwtracing/coresight/coresight-syscfg.c    | 57 +++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 52 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-syscfg.c b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-syscfg.c
index 11850fd8c3b5..75df0f865355 100644
--- a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-syscfg.c
+++ b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-syscfg.c
@@ -1056,14 +1056,61 @@ static int cscfg_create_device(void)
 	return err;
 }
 
-static void cscfg_clear_device(void)
+/*
+ * Loading and unloading is generally on user discretion.
+ * If exiting due to coresight module unload, we need to unload any configurations that remain,
+ * before we unregister the configfs intrastructure.
+ *
+ * Do this by walking the load_owner list and taking appropriate action, depending on the load
+ * owner type.
+ *
+ * called with the cscfg_mutex held
+ */
+
+#define LOADABLE_MOD_ERR "cscfg: ERROR - a loadable module failed to unload configs on exit\n"
+
+static void cscfg_unload_cfgs_on_exit(void)
 {
-	struct cscfg_config_desc *cfg_desc;
+	struct cscfg_load_owner_info *owner_info = NULL;
 
-	mutex_lock(&cscfg_mutex);
-	list_for_each_entry(cfg_desc, &cscfg_mgr->config_desc_list, item) {
-		etm_perf_del_symlink_cscfg(cfg_desc);
+	while (!list_empty(&cscfg_mgr->load_order_list)) {
+
+		/* remove in reverse order of loading */
+		owner_info = list_last_entry(&cscfg_mgr->load_order_list,
+					     struct cscfg_load_owner_info, item);
+
+		/* action according to type */
+		switch (owner_info->type) {
+		case CSCFG_OWNER_PRELOAD:
+			/*
+			 * preloaded  descriptors are statically allocated in
+			 * this module - just need to unload dynamic items from
+			 * csdev lists, and remove from configfs directories.
+			 */
+			pr_info("cscfg: unloading preloaded configurations\n");
+			cscfg_unload_owned_cfgs_feats(owner_info);
+			break;
+
+		case  CSCFG_OWNER_MODULE:
+			/*
+			 * this is an error - the loadable module must have been unloaded prior
+			 * to the coresight module unload. Therefore that module has not
+			 * correctly unloaded configs in its own exit code.
+			 * Nothing to do other than emit an error string.
+			 */
+			pr_err(LOADABLE_MOD_ERR);
+			break;
+		}
+
+		/* remove from load order list */
+		list_del(&owner_info->item);
 	}
+}
+
+static void cscfg_clear_device(void)
+{
+	mutex_lock(&cscfg_mutex);
+	cscfg_unload_cfgs_on_exit();
 	cscfg_configfs_release(cscfg_mgr);
 	device_unregister(cscfg_device());
 	mutex_unlock(&cscfg_mutex);
-- 
2.17.1




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