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* [PATCH] clk: fix spin_lock/unlock imbalance on bad clk_enable() reentrancy
@ 2017-12-12 23:43 David Lechner
  2017-12-13  4:14 ` David Lechner
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 14+ messages in thread
From: David Lechner @ 2017-12-12 23:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-clk; +Cc: David Lechner, Michael Turquette, Stephen Boyd, linux-kernel

If clk_enable() is called in reentrant way and spin_trylock_irqsave() is
not working as expected, it is possible to get a negative enable_refcnt
which results in a missed call to spin_unlock_irqrestore().

It works like this:

1. clk_enable() is called.
2. clk_enable_unlock() calls spin_trylock_irqsave() and sets
   enable_refcnt = 1.
3. Another clk_enable() is called before the first has returned
   (reentrant), but somehow spin_trylock_irqsave() is returning true.
   (I'm not sure how/why this is happening yet, but it is happening to me
   with arch/arm/mach-davinci clocks that I am working on).
4. Because spin_trylock_irqsave() returned true, enable_lock has been
   locked twice without being unlocked and enable_refcnt = 1 is called
   instead of enable_refcnt++.
5. After the inner clock is enabled clk_enable_unlock() is called which
   decrements enable_refnct to 0 and calls spin_unlock_irqrestore()
6. The inner clk_enable() function returns.
7. clk_enable_unlock() is called again for the outer clock. enable_refcnt
   is decremented to -1 and spin_unlock_irqrestore() is *not* called.
8. The outer clk_enable() function returns.
9. Unrelated code called later issues a BUG warning about sleeping in an
   atomic context because of the unbalanced calls for the spin lock.

This patch fixes the problem of unbalanced calls by calling
spin_unlock_irqrestore() if enable_refnct <= 0 instead of just checking if
it is == 0.

The BUG warning about sleeping in an atomic context in the unrelated code
is eliminated with this patch, but there are still warnings printed from
clk_enable_unlock() and clk_enable_unlock() because of the reference
counting problems.

Signed-off-by: David Lechner <david@lechnology.com>
---
 drivers/clk/clk.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/clk/clk.c b/drivers/clk/clk.c
index 647d056..bb1b1f9 100644
--- a/drivers/clk/clk.c
+++ b/drivers/clk/clk.c
@@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ static void clk_enable_unlock(unsigned long flags)
 	WARN_ON_ONCE(enable_owner != current);
 	WARN_ON_ONCE(enable_refcnt == 0);
 
-	if (--enable_refcnt) {
+	if (--enable_refcnt > 0) {
 		__release(enable_lock);
 		return;
 	}
-- 
2.7.4

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2017-12-13  4:14 ` David Lechner
2017-12-15 13:47   ` Jerome Brunet
2017-12-15 16:26     ` David Lechner
2017-12-15 16:29   ` David Lechner
2017-12-19 22:29     ` Michael Turquette
2017-12-20 18:53       ` David Lechner
2017-12-20 19:24         ` Michael Turquette
2017-12-20 20:33           ` David Lechner
2017-12-20 21:50             ` David Lechner
2017-12-21  0:23               ` Stephen Boyd
2017-12-22  1:39                 ` Stephen Boyd
2017-12-22  3:29                   ` David Lechner
2017-12-22 18:42                   ` David Lechner

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