[PATCH] soc: sunxi: sram: order the publication of base against sram_dev
Jaidev Shastri via B4 Relay
devnull+jaidevshastri.vt.edu at kernel.org
Mon Sep 21 17:48:49 PDT 2026
From: Jaidev Shastri <jaidevshastri at vt.edu>
sunxi_sram_claim() is called from the probe functions of the EMAC, the
video engine and other consumers. It gates on the file-scope base
pointer:
if (!base)
return -EPROBE_DEFER;
and then walks sram_dev->of_node in sunxi_sram_of_parse().
sunxi_sram_probe() writes sram_dev and then base, both with plain
stores, and the claimer reads both with plain loads. Neither the two
stores nor the two loads are ordered, so a claimer on another CPU can
pass the gate and dereference sram_dev == NULL.
Keep the mapped registers in a local and publish base with
smp_store_release() once sram_dev is set; read it with
smp_load_acquire() in sunxi_sram_claim(). The error value is still
stored to base so that a failed probe keeps reporting it to claimers.
Found with MBCheck, a static herd7-based memory consistency checker.
Signed-off-by: Jaidev Shastri <jaidevshastri at vt.edu>
---
drivers/soc/sunxi/sunxi_sram.c | 28 +++++++++++++++++++++-------
1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/soc/sunxi/sunxi_sram.c b/drivers/soc/sunxi/sunxi_sram.c
index 2ccaeacf8..0e0b86ad3 100644
--- a/drivers/soc/sunxi/sunxi_sram.c
+++ b/drivers/soc/sunxi/sunxi_sram.c
@@ -266,10 +266,14 @@ int sunxi_sram_claim(struct device *dev)
int err;
int count = 0;
- if (IS_ERR(base))
- return PTR_ERR(base);
+ void __iomem *regs;
- if (!base)
+ /* Pairs with smp_store_release() in sunxi_sram_probe(). */
+ regs = smp_load_acquire(&base);
+ if (IS_ERR(regs))
+ return PTR_ERR(regs);
+
+ if (!regs)
return -EPROBE_DEFER;
if (!dev || !dev->of_node)
@@ -410,6 +414,7 @@ static int __init sunxi_sram_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
const struct sunxi_sramc_variant *variant;
struct device *dev = &pdev->dev;
struct regmap *regmap;
+ void __iomem *regs;
int ret;
sram_dev = &pdev->dev;
@@ -420,12 +425,21 @@ static int __init sunxi_sram_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
dev_set_drvdata(dev, (struct sunxi_sramc_variant *)variant);
- base = devm_platform_ioremap_resource(pdev, 0);
- if (IS_ERR(base))
- return PTR_ERR(base);
+ regs = devm_platform_ioremap_resource(pdev, 0);
+ if (IS_ERR(regs)) {
+ base = regs;
+ return PTR_ERR(regs);
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * base is the gate that sunxi_sram_claim() tests before it walks
+ * sram_dev->of_node. Publish it after sram_dev so that a claimer on
+ * another CPU that passes the gate also sees sram_dev.
+ */
+ smp_store_release(&base, regs);
if (variant->num_emac_clocks || variant->has_ldo_ctrl) {
- regmap = devm_regmap_init_mmio(dev, base, &sunxi_sram_regmap_config);
+ regmap = devm_regmap_init_mmio(dev, regs, &sunxi_sram_regmap_config);
if (IS_ERR(regmap))
return PTR_ERR(regmap);
---
base-commit: 93f51579e7df248780214094418f205253383cc5
change-id: 20260921-mb-sunxi-sram-41c3288a4660
Best regards,
--
Jaidev Shastri <jaidevshastri at vt.edu>
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