Re: Query regarding "firmware: arm_scmi: Free mailbox channels if probe fails"

[Cristian Marussi <cristian.marussi@arm.com>]

On Fri, Sep 30, 2022 at 06:29:02PM +0530, Shivnandan Kumar wrote:
> hi Cristian,

Hi Shivnandan,
> 
> Thanks for your support in providing the patch to try.
> 
> I found one race condition in our downstream mbox controller driver while
> accessing con_priv, when I serialized access to this, issue is not seen on 3
> days of testing.

Good to hear that you find the issue.

> 
> As you rightly mentioned that your provided patch will impact all the other
> users.
> 
> Also if  we take your provided patch, same race still exists while accessing
> con_priv in our downstream mbox controller so this issue will still be
> there.
> 

Yes indeed, even though I think that race in the mailbox core between RX path
and chan_free could still be theoretically possible it does not seem to me
appropriate to try to fix it now that you cannot reproduce it anymore and
no other mailbox user has ever raised this concern (even though, as said, the
proper solution to that race wont probably be directly in the mailbox-core as
in my experimental two liners..)

> So, we are planning to merge the patch( serialized access to con_priv) in
> our downstream mbox controller now.
> 

Ok, just out of curiosity, once done, can you point me at your downstream public
sources so I can see the issue and the fix that you are applying to your trees ?

Thanks,
Cristian