On 08/05/2022 12:35, John Ogness wrote:
The uart_ops startup() callback is called without interrupts
disabled and without port->lock locked, relatively late during the
boot process (from the call path of console_on_rootfs()). If the
device is a console, it was already previously registered and could
be actively printing messages.
Since the startup() callback is reading/writing registers used by
the console write() callback (AML_UART_CONTROL), its access must
be synchronized using the port->lock. Currently it is not.
The startup() callback is the only function that explicitly enables
interrupts. Without the synchronization, it is possible that
interrupts become accidentally permanently disabled.
CPU0 CPU1
meson_serial_console_write meson_uart_startup
-------------------------- ------------------
spin_lock(port->lock)
val = readl(AML_UART_CONTROL)
uart_console_write()
writel(INT_EN, AML_UART_CONTROL)
writel(val, AML_UART_CONTROL)
spin_unlock(port->lock)
Add port->lock synchronization to meson_uart_startup() to avoid
racing with meson_serial_console_write().
Also add detailed comments to meson_uart_reset() explaining why it
is *not* using port->lock synchronization.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/2a82eae7-a256-f70c-fd82-4e510750906e@xxxxxxxxxxx
Reported-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/tty/serial/meson_uart.c | 13 +++++++++++++
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/meson_uart.c b/drivers/tty/serial/meson_uart.c
index 2bf1c57e0981..39021dac09cc 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/meson_uart.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/meson_uart.c
@@ -253,6 +253,14 @@ static const char *meson_uart_type(struct uart_port *port)
return (port->type == PORT_MESON) ? "meson_uart" : NULL;
}
+/*
+ * This function is called only from probe() using a temporary io mapping
+ * in order to perform a reset before setting up the device. Since the
+ * temporarily mapped region was successfully requested, there can be no
+ * console on this port at this time. Hence it is not necessary for this
+ * function to acquire the port->lock. (Since there is no console on this
+ * port at this time, the port->lock is not initialized yet.)
+ */
static void meson_uart_reset(struct uart_port *port)
{
u32 val;
@@ -267,9 +275,12 @@ static void meson_uart_reset(struct uart_port *port)
static int meson_uart_startup(struct uart_port *port)
{
+ unsigned long flags;
u32 val;
int ret = 0;
+ spin_lock_irqsave(&port->lock, flags);
+
val = readl(port->membase + AML_UART_CONTROL);
val |= AML_UART_CLEAR_ERR;
writel(val, port->membase + AML_UART_CONTROL);
@@ -285,6 +296,8 @@ static int meson_uart_startup(struct uart_port *port)
val = (AML_UART_RECV_IRQ(1) | AML_UART_XMIT_IRQ(port->fifosize / 2));
writel(val, port->membase + AML_UART_MISC);
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&port->lock, flags);
+
ret = request_irq(port->irq, meson_uart_interrupt, 0,
port->name, port);
base-commit: 672c0c5173427e6b3e2a9bbb7be51ceeec78093a
Thanks for fixing this, it may also fix an uart apparent lockup I encountered
several time while developing on the platform, but the target was still alive
so it matches.
So I'll add:
Fixes: ff7693d079e5 ("ARM: meson: serial: add MesonX SoC on-chip uart driver")
and
Acked-by: Neil Armstrong <narmstrong@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
