[PATCH v7 01/13] riscv: prevent null-pointer dereference with sbi_remote_fence_i

Heiko Stuebner
2022-03-07T20:53:52Z

The callback used inside sbi_remote_fence_i is set at sbi probe time
to the needed variant. Before that it is a NULL pointer.

Some users like the flush_icache_*() functions suggest a generic
functionality, that doesn't depend on a specific boot-stage but
uses sbi_remote_fence_i as one option to flush other cpu cores.

So they definitely shouldn't run into null-pointer dereference
issues when called "too early" during boot.

So introduce an empty function to be the standard for the __sbi_rfence
function pointer until sbi_init has run.

Users of sbi_remote_fence_i will have separate code for the local
cpu and sbi_init() is called before other cpus are brought up.
So there are no other cpus present at the time when the issue
might happen.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko@sntech.de>
Reviewed-by: Atish Patra <atishp@rivosinc.com>
---
arch/riscv/kernel/sbi.c | 10 +++++++++-
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/sbi.c b/arch/riscv/kernel/sbi.c
index 775d3322b422..5a60a458c0b7 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/kernel/sbi.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/sbi.c
@@ -16,11 +16,19 @@
unsigned long sbi_spec_version __ro_after_init = SBI_SPEC_VERSION_DEFAULT;
EXPORT_SYMBOL(sbi_spec_version);

+static int __sbi_rfence_none(int fid, const struct cpumask *cpu_mask,
+ unsigned long start, unsigned long size,
+ unsigned long arg4, unsigned long arg5)
+{
+ return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+}
+
static void (*__sbi_set_timer)(uint64_t stime) __ro_after_init;
static int (*__sbi_send_ipi)(const struct cpumask *cpu_mask) __ro_after_init;
static int (*__sbi_rfence)(int fid, const struct cpumask *cpu_mask,
unsigned long start, unsigned long size,
- unsigned long arg4, unsigned long arg5) __ro_after_init;
+ unsigned long arg4, unsigned long arg5)
+ __ro_after_init = __sbi_rfence_none;

struct sbiret sbi_ecall(int ext, int fid, unsigned long arg0,
unsigned long arg1, unsigned long arg2,
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2.30.2