[PATCH] coresight: tpdm: initialize spinlock before exposing sysfs
Jie Gan
jie.gan at oss.qualcomm.com
Mon Aug 24 20:09:54 PDT 2026
On 8/25/2026 10:06 AM, yingchao wrote:
> From: Yingchao Deng <dengyingchao at kylinsec.com.cn>
>
> tpdm_probe() initializes drvdata->spinlock after coresight_register(), but
> the sysfs attributes registered by coresight_register() use the spinlock.
> This exposes a window where a concurrent sysfs write can lock an
> uninitialized spinlock.
>
There is only a very small window during which users have a chance to
access the sysfs nodes. But still worthy to fix it.
Reviewed-by: Jie Gan <jie.gan at oss.qualcomm.com>
> Initialize the spinlock before coresight_register().
>
> Fixes: b3c71626a933 ("Coresight: Add coresight TPDM source driver")
> Signed-off-by: Yingchao Deng <dengyingchao at kylinsec.com.cn>
> ---
> drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-tpdm.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-tpdm.c b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-tpdm.c
> index 8464edbba2d4..50d1351772b9 100644
> --- a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-tpdm.c
> +++ b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-tpdm.c
> @@ -1457,12 +1457,12 @@ static int tpdm_probe(struct device *dev, struct resource *res)
> desc.groups = tpdm_attr_grps;
> else
> desc.groups = static_tpdm_attr_grps;
> + spin_lock_init(&drvdata->spinlock);
> +
> drvdata->csdev = coresight_register(&desc);
> if (IS_ERR(drvdata->csdev))
> return PTR_ERR(drvdata->csdev);
>
> - spin_lock_init(&drvdata->spinlock);
> -
> return 0;
> }
>
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