There is no mutex protection of the state checking before rproc_boot(), which can't guarantee there is no another instance is trying to do same operation. Consider two instances case: Instance1: echo start > /sys/class/remoteproc/remoteproc0/state Instance2: echo start > /sys/class/remoteproc/remoteproc0/state ... Instance2: echo stop > /sys/class/remoteproc/remoteproc0/state ... Instance1: echo stop > /sys/class/remoteproc/remoteproc0/state The one issue is that the instance2 case may success when 'start' happens at same time as instance1, then rproc->power = 2; Or it may fail with -BUSY, then rproc->power = 1; which is uncertain. The another issue is for 'stop' operation, if the rproc->power = 1, when instance2 'stop' the remoteproc the instance1 will be impacted for it still needs the service at that time. The reference counter rproc->power is used to manage state changing and there is mutex protection in each operation function for multi instance case. So remove this state checking in rproc_cdev_write() and state_store() for 'start' operation, just let reference counter rproc->power to manage the behaviors. Signed-off-by: Shengjiu Wang <shengjiu.wang@xxxxxxx> --- drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_cdev.c | 4 ---- drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_sysfs.c | 4 ---- 2 files changed, 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_cdev.c b/drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_cdev.c index 906ff3c4dfdd..62001eda780c 100644 --- a/drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_cdev.c +++ b/drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_cdev.c @@ -32,10 +32,6 @@ static ssize_t rproc_cdev_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *buf, size_ return -EFAULT; if (!strncmp(cmd, "start", len)) { - if (rproc->state == RPROC_RUNNING || - rproc->state == RPROC_ATTACHED) - return -EBUSY; - ret = rproc_boot(rproc); } else if (!strncmp(cmd, "stop", len)) { if (rproc->state != RPROC_RUNNING && diff --git a/drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_sysfs.c b/drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_sysfs.c index 51a04bc6ba7a..ac64d69085ab 100644 --- a/drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_sysfs.c +++ b/drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_sysfs.c @@ -194,10 +194,6 @@ static ssize_t state_store(struct device *dev, int ret = 0; if (sysfs_streq(buf, "start")) { - if (rproc->state == RPROC_RUNNING || - rproc->state == RPROC_ATTACHED) - return -EBUSY; - ret = rproc_boot(rproc); if (ret) dev_err(&rproc->dev, "Boot failed: %d\n", ret); -- 2.17.1