Re: [PATCH] thermal: Fix potential race condition in suspend/resume

["Bo Ye (叶波)" <Bo.Ye@mediatek.com>]

On Sat, 2023-09-16 at 19:33 +0800, Bo Ye wrote:

Correct mail title format: remove "Subject:" from mail title.

> From: "yugang.wang" <yugang.wang@mediatek.com>
> 
> Body:
> This patch fixes a race condition during system resume. It occurs if
> the system is exiting a suspend state and a user is trying to
> register/unregister a thermal zone concurrently. The root cause is
> that both actions access the `thermal_tz_list`.
> 
> In detail:
> 
> 1. At PM_POST_SUSPEND during the resume, the system reads all thermal
>    zones in `thermal_tz_list`, then resets and updates their
>    temperatures.
> 2. When registering/unregistering a thermal zone, the
>    `thermal_tz_list` gets manipulated.
> 
> These two actions might occur concurrently, causing a race condition.
> To solve this issue, we introduce a mutex lock to protect
> `thermal_tz_list` from being modified while it's being read and
> updated during the resume from suspend.
> 
> Kernel oops excerpt related to this fix:
> 
> [ 5201.869845] [T316822] pc: [0xffffffeb7d4876f0]
> mutex_lock+0x34/0x170
> [ 5201.869856] [T316822] lr: [0xffffffeb7ca98a84]
> thermal_pm_notify+0xd4/0x26c
> [... cut for brevity ...]
> [ 5201.871061] [T316822]  suspend_prepare+0x150/0x470
> [ 5201.871067] [T316822]  enter_state+0x84/0x6f4
> [ 5201.871076] [T316822]  state_store+0x15c/0x1e8
> 
> Change-Id: Ifdbdecba17093f91eab7e36ce04b46d311ca6568
> Signed-off-by: yugang.wang <yugang.wang@mediatek.com>
> Signed-off-by: Bo Ye <bo.ye@mediatek.com>
> ---
>  drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c
> b/drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c
> index 8717a3343512..a7a18ed57b6d 100644
> --- a/drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c
> +++ b/drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c
> @@ -1529,12 +1529,14 @@ static int thermal_pm_notify(struct
> notifier_block *nb,
>  	case PM_POST_HIBERNATION:
>  	case PM_POST_RESTORE:
>  	case PM_POST_SUSPEND:
> +		mutex_lock(&thermal_list_lock);
>  		atomic_set(&in_suspend, 0);
>  		list_for_each_entry(tz, &thermal_tz_list, node) {
>  			thermal_zone_device_init(tz);
>  			thermal_zone_device_update(tz,
>  						   THERMAL_EVENT_UNSPEC
> IFIED);
>  		}
> +		mutex_unlock(&thermal_list_lock);
>  		break;
>  	default:
>  		break;