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authorGuilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli@igalia.com>2022-09-09 17:07:55 -0300
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2022-10-26 13:19:33 +0200
commit8eb9c12e12ef0c848d454906713592fa4c990230 (patch)
tree2fe9599ea810a90782b39b6f4bb21bf900272496 /drivers/firmware
parent637672a71f5016a40b0a6c0f3c8ad25eacedc8c3 (diff)
firmware: google: Test spinlock on panic path to avoid lockups
[ Upstream commit 3e081438b8e639cc76ef1a5ce0c1bd8a154082c7 ] Currently the gsmi driver registers a panic notifier as well as reboot and die notifiers. The callbacks registered are called in atomic and very limited context - for instance, panic disables preemption and local IRQs, also all secondary CPUs (not executing the panic path) are shutdown. With that said, taking a spinlock in this scenario is a dangerous invitation for lockup scenarios. So, fix that by checking if the spinlock is free to acquire in the panic notifier callback - if not, bail-out and avoid a potential hang. Fixes: 74c5b31c6618 ("driver: Google EFI SMI") Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Cc: David Gow <davidgow@google.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Julius Werner <jwerner@chromium.org> Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Reviewed-by: Evan Green <evgreen@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli@igalia.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220909200755.189679-1-gpiccoli@igalia.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/firmware')
-rw-r--r--drivers/firmware/google/gsmi.c9
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/firmware/google/gsmi.c b/drivers/firmware/google/gsmi.c
index 62337be07afc..2e3ef0eb6e82 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/google/gsmi.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/google/gsmi.c
@@ -661,6 +661,15 @@ static struct notifier_block gsmi_die_notifier = {
static int gsmi_panic_callback(struct notifier_block *nb,
unsigned long reason, void *arg)
{
+
+ /*
+ * Panic callbacks are executed with all other CPUs stopped,
+ * so we must not attempt to spin waiting for gsmi_dev.lock
+ * to be released.
+ */
+ if (spin_is_locked(&gsmi_dev.lock))
+ return NOTIFY_DONE;
+
gsmi_shutdown_reason(GSMI_SHUTDOWN_PANIC);
return NOTIFY_DONE;
}