[PATCH] RISC-V: Check clint_time_val before use

Anup Patel anup at brainfault.org
Sat Sep 26 05:57:15 EDT 2020


On Sat, Sep 26, 2020 at 3:16 PM Damien Le Moal <Damien.LeMoal at wdc.com> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 2020-09-26 at 09:31 +0000, Anup Patel wrote:
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Damien Le Moal <Damien.LeMoal at wdc.com>
> > > Sent: 26 September 2020 14:55
> > > To: paul.walmsley at sifive.com; palmer at dabbelt.com;
> > > palmerdabbelt at google.com; Anup Patel <Anup.Patel at wdc.com>;
> > > aou at eecs.berkeley.edu
> > > Cc: anup at brainfault.org; linux-riscv at lists.infradead.org; Atish Patra
> > > <Atish.Patra at wdc.com>; Alistair Francis <Alistair.Francis at wdc.com>; linux-
> > > kernel at vger.kernel.org
> > > Subject: Re: [PATCH] RISC-V: Check clint_time_val before use
> > >
> > > On Sat, 2020-09-26 at 12:57 +0530, Anup Patel wrote:
> > > > The NoMMU kernel is broken for QEMU virt machine from Linux-5.9-rc6
> > > > because the get_cycles() and friends are called very early from
> > > > rand_initialize() before CLINT driver is probed. To fix this, we
> > > > should check clint_time_val before use in get_cycles() and friends.
> > > >
> > > > Fixes: d5be89a8d118 ("RISC-V: Resurrect the MMIO timer implementation
> > > > for M-mode systems")
> > > > Signed-off-by: Anup Patel <anup.patel at wdc.com>
> > > > ---
> > > >  arch/riscv/include/asm/timex.h | 12 +++++++++---
> > > >  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> > > >
> > > > diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/timex.h
> > > > b/arch/riscv/include/asm/timex.h index 7f659dda0032..52b42bb1602c
> > > > 100644
> > > > --- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/timex.h
> > > > +++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/timex.h
> > > > @@ -17,18 +17,24 @@ typedef unsigned long cycles_t;  #ifdef
> > > > CONFIG_64BIT  static inline cycles_t get_cycles(void)  {
> > > > - return readq_relaxed(clint_time_val);
> > > > + if (clint_time_val)
> > > > +         return readq_relaxed(clint_time_val);
> > > > + return 0;
> > > >  }
> > > >  #else /* !CONFIG_64BIT */
> > > >  static inline u32 get_cycles(void)
> > > >  {
> > > > - return readl_relaxed(((u32 *)clint_time_val));
> > > > + if (clint_time_val)
> > > > +         return readl_relaxed(((u32 *)clint_time_val));
> > > > + return 0;
> > > >  }
> > > >  #define get_cycles get_cycles
> > > >
> > > >  static inline u32 get_cycles_hi(void)  {
> > > > - return readl_relaxed(((u32 *)clint_time_val) + 1);
> > > > + if (clint_time_val)
> > > > +         return readl_relaxed(((u32 *)clint_time_val) + 1);
> > > > + return 0
> > > >  }
> > > >  #define get_cycles_hi get_cycles_hi
> > > >  #endif /* CONFIG_64BIT */
> > >
> > > Applying this on top of rc6, I now get a hang on Kendryte boot...
> > > No problems without the patch on the other hand.
> >
> > Not sure about the issue with Kendryte but I get a crash on
> > QEMU virt machine without this patch.
>
> With this applied in addition to your patch, it works.
>
> diff --git a/drivers/clocksource/timer-clint.c b/drivers/clocksource/timer-
> clint.c
> index d17367dee02c..8dbec85979fd 100644
> --- a/drivers/clocksource/timer-clint.c
> +++ b/drivers/clocksource/timer-clint.c
> @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ static unsigned long clint_timer_freq;
>  static unsigned int clint_timer_irq;
>
>  #ifdef CONFIG_RISCV_M_MODE
> -u64 __iomem *clint_time_val;
> +u64 __iomem *clint_time_val = NULL;
>  #endif
>
>  static void clint_send_ipi(const struct cpumask *target)

Ahh, clint_time_val is an uninitialized variable.

I will send a v2 with your SoB.

Regards,
Anup

>
> --
> Damien Le Moal
> Western Digital



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