2020-11-12 16:42:42

by Nicolas Saenz Julienne

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Subject: [PATCH v4 01/11] firmware: raspberrypi: Keep count of all consumers

When unbinding the firmware device we need to make sure it has no
consumers left. Otherwise we'd leave them with a firmware handle
pointing at freed memory.

Keep a reference count of all consumers and introduce rpi_firmware_put()
which will permit automatically decrease the reference count upon
unbinding consumer drivers.

Suggested-by: Uwe Kleine-König <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <[email protected]>
---

Changes since v3:
- Use kref instead of waiting on refcount

drivers/firmware/raspberrypi.c | 37 +++++++++++++++++++---
include/soc/bcm2835/raspberrypi-firmware.h | 2 ++
2 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/firmware/raspberrypi.c b/drivers/firmware/raspberrypi.c
index 2371d08bdd17..438e17074a97 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/raspberrypi.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/raspberrypi.c
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
*/

#include <linux/dma-mapping.h>
+#include <linux/kref.h>
#include <linux/mailbox_client.h>
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/of_platform.h>
@@ -27,6 +28,8 @@ struct rpi_firmware {
struct mbox_chan *chan; /* The property channel. */
struct completion c;
u32 enabled;
+
+ struct kref consumers;
};

static DEFINE_MUTEX(transaction_lock);
@@ -225,12 +228,27 @@ static void rpi_register_clk_driver(struct device *dev)
-1, NULL, 0);
}

+static void rpi_firmware_delete(struct kref *kref)
+{
+ struct rpi_firmware *fw = container_of(kref, struct rpi_firmware,
+ consumers);
+
+ mbox_free_channel(fw->chan);
+ kfree(fw);
+}
+
+void rpi_firmware_put(struct rpi_firmware *fw)
+{
+ kref_put(&fw->consumers, rpi_firmware_delete);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rpi_firmware_put);
+
static int rpi_firmware_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
{
struct device *dev = &pdev->dev;
struct rpi_firmware *fw;

- fw = devm_kzalloc(dev, sizeof(*fw), GFP_KERNEL);
+ fw = kzalloc(sizeof(*fw), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!fw)
return -ENOMEM;

@@ -247,6 +265,7 @@ static int rpi_firmware_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
}

init_completion(&fw->c);
+ kref_init(&fw->consumers);

platform_set_drvdata(pdev, fw);

@@ -275,25 +294,35 @@ static int rpi_firmware_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
rpi_hwmon = NULL;
platform_device_unregister(rpi_clk);
rpi_clk = NULL;
- mbox_free_channel(fw->chan);
+
+ rpi_firmware_put(fw);

return 0;
}

/**
- * rpi_firmware_get - Get pointer to rpi_firmware structure.
* @firmware_node: Pointer to the firmware Device Tree node.
*
+ * The reference to rpi_firmware has to be released with rpi_firmware_put().
+ *
* Returns NULL is the firmware device is not ready.
*/
struct rpi_firmware *rpi_firmware_get(struct device_node *firmware_node)
{
struct platform_device *pdev = of_find_device_by_node(firmware_node);
+ struct rpi_firmware *fw;

if (!pdev)
return NULL;

- return platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
+ fw = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
+ if (!fw)
+ return NULL;
+
+ if (!kref_get_unless_zero(&fw->consumers))
+ return NULL;
+
+ return fw;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rpi_firmware_get);

diff --git a/include/soc/bcm2835/raspberrypi-firmware.h b/include/soc/bcm2835/raspberrypi-firmware.h
index cc9cdbc66403..fdfef7fe40df 100644
--- a/include/soc/bcm2835/raspberrypi-firmware.h
+++ b/include/soc/bcm2835/raspberrypi-firmware.h
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int rpi_firmware_property(struct rpi_firmware *fw,
u32 tag, void *data, size_t len);
int rpi_firmware_property_list(struct rpi_firmware *fw,
void *data, size_t tag_size);
+void rpi_firmware_put(struct rpi_firmware *fw);
struct rpi_firmware *rpi_firmware_get(struct device_node *firmware_node);
#else
static inline int rpi_firmware_property(struct rpi_firmware *fw, u32 tag,
@@ -154,6 +155,7 @@ static inline int rpi_firmware_property_list(struct rpi_firmware *fw,
return -ENOSYS;
}

+static inline void rpi_firmware_put(struct rpi_firmware *fw) { }
static inline struct rpi_firmware *rpi_firmware_get(struct device_node *firmware_node)
{
return NULL;
--
2.29.2


2020-11-12 17:55:17

by Andy Shevchenko

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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 01/11] firmware: raspberrypi: Keep count of all consumers

On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 6:40 PM Nicolas Saenz Julienne
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> When unbinding the firmware device we need to make sure it has no
> consumers left. Otherwise we'd leave them with a firmware handle
> pointing at freed memory.
>
> Keep a reference count of all consumers and introduce rpi_firmware_put()
> which will permit automatically decrease the reference count upon
> unbinding consumer drivers.

...

> /**
> - * rpi_firmware_get - Get pointer to rpi_firmware structure.
> * @firmware_node: Pointer to the firmware Device Tree node.
> *
> + * The reference to rpi_firmware has to be released with rpi_firmware_put().
> + *
> * Returns NULL is the firmware device is not ready.
> */
> struct rpi_firmware *rpi_firmware_get(struct device_node *firmware_node)
> {
> struct platform_device *pdev = of_find_device_by_node(firmware_node);
> + struct rpi_firmware *fw;
>
> if (!pdev)
> return NULL;
>
> - return platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
> + fw = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
> + if (!fw)
> + return NULL;
> +
> + if (!kref_get_unless_zero(&fw->consumers))
> + return NULL;

Don't we have a more traditional way of doing this, i.e.
try_module_get() coupled with get_device() ?

> + return fw;
> }


--
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko

2020-11-13 07:28:19

by Dmitry Torokhov

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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 01/11] firmware: raspberrypi: Keep count of all consumers

On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 07:52:14PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 6:40 PM Nicolas Saenz Julienne
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > When unbinding the firmware device we need to make sure it has no
> > consumers left. Otherwise we'd leave them with a firmware handle
> > pointing at freed memory.
> >
> > Keep a reference count of all consumers and introduce rpi_firmware_put()
> > which will permit automatically decrease the reference count upon
> > unbinding consumer drivers.
>
> ...
>
> > /**
> > - * rpi_firmware_get - Get pointer to rpi_firmware structure.
> > * @firmware_node: Pointer to the firmware Device Tree node.
> > *
> > + * The reference to rpi_firmware has to be released with rpi_firmware_put().
> > + *
> > * Returns NULL is the firmware device is not ready.
> > */
> > struct rpi_firmware *rpi_firmware_get(struct device_node *firmware_node)
> > {
> > struct platform_device *pdev = of_find_device_by_node(firmware_node);
> > + struct rpi_firmware *fw;
> >
> > if (!pdev)
> > return NULL;
> >
> > - return platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
> > + fw = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
> > + if (!fw)
> > + return NULL;
> > +
> > + if (!kref_get_unless_zero(&fw->consumers))
> > + return NULL;
>
> Don't we have a more traditional way of doing this, i.e.
> try_module_get() coupled with get_device() ?

get_device() will make sure that device is there, but gives no
assurances that device is bound to a driver, so it will not help with
the racy access to firmware via platform_get_drvdata() call.

Thanks.

--
Dmitry

2020-11-23 17:23:35

by Nicolas Saenz Julienne

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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 01/11] firmware: raspberrypi: Keep count of all consumers

On Thu, 2020-11-12 at 23:26 -0800, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 07:52:14PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 6:40 PM Nicolas Saenz Julienne
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >
> > > When unbinding the firmware device we need to make sure it has no
> > > consumers left. Otherwise we'd leave them with a firmware handle
> > > pointing at freed memory.
> > >
> > > Keep a reference count of all consumers and introduce rpi_firmware_put()
> > > which will permit automatically decrease the reference count upon
> > > unbinding consumer drivers.
> >
> > ...
> >
> > >  /**
> > > - * rpi_firmware_get - Get pointer to rpi_firmware structure.
> > >   * @firmware_node: Pointer to the firmware Device Tree node.
> > >   *
> > > + * The reference to rpi_firmware has to be released with rpi_firmware_put().
> > > + *
> > >   * Returns NULL is the firmware device is not ready.
> > >   */
> > >  struct rpi_firmware *rpi_firmware_get(struct device_node *firmware_node)
> > >  {
> > >         struct platform_device *pdev = of_find_device_by_node(firmware_node);
> > > + struct rpi_firmware *fw;
> > >
> > >         if (!pdev)
> > >                 return NULL;
> > >
> > > - return platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
> > > + fw = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
> > > + if (!fw)
> > > + return NULL;
> > > +
> > > + if (!kref_get_unless_zero(&fw->consumers))
> > > + return NULL;
> >

Hi Andy, Dimitry,

> > Don't we have a more traditional way of doing this, i.e.
> > try_module_get() coupled with get_device() ?
>
> get_device() will make sure that device is there, but gives no
> assurances that device is bound to a driver, so it will not help with
> the racy access to firmware via platform_get_drvdata() call.

I also looked at using get/put_device() just as a means for refcounting (i.e.
replacing fw->consumers), but I can't make it work either. I'd need a way to
hook up into one of the struct device_ktype release() functions. AFAIK it's not
possible for private uses like this.

IIUC the way to do this would be to bypass platform device and create a special
device class/bus for RPi's firmware dependent devices (I could pretty much copy
SCMI's implementation), but I fear that's overkill.

So, for now I'll stick with the kref based implementation, I'll be happy to
change it if you find a better solution. :)

Regards,
Nicolas


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