Re: [PATCH v3] serial: stm32: optimize spin lock usage

[Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>]

On Fri, Apr 16, 2021 at 06:10:41PM +0800, dillon.minfei@gmail.com wrote:
> From: dillon min <dillon.minfei@gmail.com>
> 
> This patch aims to fix two potential bug:
> - no lock to protect uart register in this case
> 
>   stm32_usart_threaded_interrupt()
>      spin_lock(&port->lock);
>      ...
>      stm32_usart_receive_chars()
>        uart_handle_sysrq_char();
>        sysrq_function();
>        printk();
>          stm32_usart_console_write();
>            locked = 0; //since port->sysrq is not zero,
>                          no lock to protect forward register
>                          access.
> 
> - if add spin_trylock_irqsave() to protect uart register for sysrq = 1 case,
>   that might got recursive locking under UP.
>   So, use uart_prepare_sysrq_char(), uart_unlock_and_check_sysrq()
>   move sysrq handler position to irq/thread_d handler, just record
>   sysrq_ch in stm32_usart_receive_chars() by uart_prepare_sysrq_char()
>   delay the sysrq process to next interrupt handler.
> 
>   new flow:
> 
>   stm32_usart_threaded_interrupt()/stm32_usart_interrupt()
>   spin_lock_irqsave(&port->lock);
>   ...
>   uart_unlock_and_check_sysrq();
>      spin_unlock_irqrestore();
>      handle_sysrq(sysrq_ch);
>   stm32_usart_threaded_interrupt()//stm32_usart_interrupt() return
> 
> Cc: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
> Cc: Alexandre Torgue <alexandre.torgue@foss.st.com>
> Cc: Maxime Coquelin <mcoquelin.stm32@gmail.com>
> Cc: Gerald Baeza <gerald.baeza@foss.st.com>
> Cc: Erwan Le Ray <erwan.leray@foss.st.com>
> Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: dillon min <dillon.minfei@gmail.com>
> ---
> v3: add uart_prepare_sysrq_char(), uart_unlock_and_check_sysrq() to move
>     sysrq handler inside interrupt routinei to avoid recursive locking,
>     according to Johan Hovold suggestion, thanks.
> 
>  drivers/tty/serial/stm32-usart.c | 24 +++++++++++-------------
>  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/stm32-usart.c b/drivers/tty/serial/stm32-usart.c
> index b3675cf25a69..981f50ec784e 100644
> --- a/drivers/tty/serial/stm32-usart.c
> +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/stm32-usart.c
> @@ -271,7 +271,7 @@ static void stm32_usart_receive_chars(struct uart_port *port, bool threaded)
>  			}
>  		}
>  
> -		if (uart_handle_sysrq_char(port, c))
> +		if (uart_prepare_sysrq_char(port, c))
>  			continue;
>  		uart_insert_char(port, sr, USART_SR_ORE, c, flag);
>  	}
> @@ -457,9 +457,10 @@ static irqreturn_t stm32_usart_interrupt(int irq, void *ptr)
>  	struct uart_port *port = ptr;
>  	struct stm32_port *stm32_port = to_stm32_port(port);
>  	const struct stm32_usart_offsets *ofs = &stm32_port->info->ofs;
> +	unsigned long flags;
>  	u32 sr;
>  
> -	spin_lock(&port->lock);
> +	spin_lock_irqsave(&port->lock, flags);
>  
>  	sr = readl_relaxed(port->membase + ofs->isr);
>  
> @@ -477,7 +478,7 @@ static irqreturn_t stm32_usart_interrupt(int irq, void *ptr)
>  	if ((sr & USART_SR_TXE) && !(stm32_port->tx_ch))
>  		stm32_usart_transmit_chars(port);
>  
> -	spin_unlock(&port->lock);
> +	uart_unlock_and_check_sysrq(port, flags);
>  
>  	if (stm32_port->rx_ch)
>  		return IRQ_WAKE_THREAD;
> @@ -489,13 +490,14 @@ static irqreturn_t stm32_usart_threaded_interrupt(int irq, void *ptr)
>  {
>  	struct uart_port *port = ptr;
>  	struct stm32_port *stm32_port = to_stm32_port(port);
> +	unsigned long flags;
>  
> -	spin_lock(&port->lock);
> +	spin_lock_irqsave(&port->lock, flags);

This essentially turns the threaded handler into a non-threaded one,
which is a bad idea.

>  	if (stm32_port->rx_ch)
>  		stm32_usart_receive_chars(port, true);
>  
> -	spin_unlock(&port->lock);
> +	uart_unlock_and_check_sysrq(port, flags);
>  
>  	return IRQ_HANDLED;
>  }

You also didn't base this patch on tty-next, which has a number of
updates to this driver. Before noting that myself, I had fixed a couple
of deadlocks in this driver which turned out to have been incidentally
fixed by an unrelated path in -next.

I'll be posting a series that should fix up all of this.

Johan