Re: [RFC 1/2] remoteproc: sysfs: authorize rproc shutdown when rproc is crashed

Bjorn Andersson
2020-03-11T23:27:15Z

On Wed 11 Mar 03:54 PDT 2020, Loic Pallardy wrote:

> When remoteproc recovery is disabled and rproc crashed, user space
> client has no way to reboot co-processor except by a complete platform
> reboot.
> Indeed rproc_shutdown() is called by sysfs state_store() only is rproc
> state is RPROC_RUNNING.
>
> This patch offers the possibility to shutdown the co-processor if
> it is in RPROC_CRASHED state and so to restart properly co-processor
> from sysfs interface.
>

I did recently run into a similar problem when I fed my remoteproc
faulty firmware, which lead to it recovering immediately upon boot. The
amount of time spent in !CRASHED state was minimal, so I didn't have any
way to stop the remoteproc.

> Signed-off-by: Loic Pallardy <loic.pallardy@st.com>
> ---
> drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_core.c | 2 +-
> drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_sysfs.c | 2 +-
> 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_core.c b/drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_core.c
> index 097f33e4f1f3..7ac87a75cd1b 100644
> --- a/drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_core.c
> +++ b/drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_core.c
> @@ -1812,7 +1812,7 @@ void rproc_shutdown(struct rproc *rproc)
> if (!atomic_dec_and_test(&rproc->power))
> goto out;
>
> - ret = rproc_stop(rproc, false);
> + ret = rproc_stop(rproc, rproc->state == RPROC_CRASHED);

Afaict this is unrelated to the problem you're describing in the commit
message.

> if (ret) {
> atomic_inc(&rproc->power);
> goto out;
> diff --git a/drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_sysfs.c b/drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_sysfs.c
> index 7f8536b73295..1029458a4678 100644
> --- a/drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_sysfs.c
> +++ b/drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_sysfs.c
> @@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ static ssize_t state_store(struct device *dev,
> if (ret)
> dev_err(&rproc->dev, "Boot failed: %d\n", ret);
> } else if (sysfs_streq(buf, "stop")) {
> - if (rproc->state != RPROC_RUNNING)
> + if (rproc->state != RPROC_RUNNING && rproc->state != RPROC_CRASHED)

Analogous to the problem reported by Alex here
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11413161/ the handling of stop seems
racy.

In particular, I believe you're failing to protect against a race
with a just scheduled rproc_crash_handler_work() being executed after
the mutex_unlock() in rproc_shutdown()...

With Alex fix that should be less of a problem though...

Regards,
Bjorn

> return -EINVAL;
>
> rproc_shutdown(rproc);
> --
> 2.7.4
>