When multiple clients try to update the recovery flag, it is possible that, race condition would lead to undesired results as updates to recovery flag isn't protected by any mechanism today. To avoid such issues, take remoteproc mutex lock before updating recovery flag and release the lock once done. Signed-off-by: Satya Durga Srinivasu Prabhala <quic_satyap@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- v1 -> v2: - addressed comments from Mukesh Ojha 1. take & release lock only while updating recovery flag 2. update debugfs drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_debugfs.c | 4 ++++ drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_sysfs.c | 4 ++++ 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_debugfs.c b/drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_debugfs.c index b86c1d09c70c..2c44d375024e 100644 --- a/drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_debugfs.c +++ b/drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_debugfs.c @@ -226,10 +226,14 @@ rproc_recovery_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *user_buf, if (!strncmp(buf, "enabled", count)) { /* change the flag and begin the recovery process if needed */ + mutex_lock(&rproc->lock); rproc->recovery_disabled = false; + mutex_unlock(&rproc->lock); rproc_trigger_recovery(rproc); } else if (!strncmp(buf, "disabled", count)) { + mutex_lock(&rproc->lock); rproc->recovery_disabled = true; + mutex_unlock(&rproc->lock); } else if (!strncmp(buf, "recover", count)) { /* begin the recovery process without changing the flag */ rproc_trigger_recovery(rproc); diff --git a/drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_sysfs.c b/drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_sysfs.c index 8c7ea8922638..628e0de9a132 100644 --- a/drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_sysfs.c +++ b/drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_sysfs.c @@ -50,10 +50,14 @@ static ssize_t recovery_store(struct device *dev, if (sysfs_streq(buf, "enabled")) { /* change the flag and begin the recovery process if needed */ + mutex_lock(&rproc->lock); rproc->recovery_disabled = false; + mutex_unlock(&rproc->lock); rproc_trigger_recovery(rproc); } else if (sysfs_streq(buf, "disabled")) { + mutex_lock(&rproc->lock); rproc->recovery_disabled = true; + mutex_unlock(&rproc->lock); } else if (sysfs_streq(buf, "recover")) { /* begin the recovery process without changing the flag */ rproc_trigger_recovery(rproc); -- 2.38.1