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firmware: coreboot: Register bus in module init
authorBrian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>
Thu, 20 Oct 2022 01:10:53 +0000 (18:10 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sat, 26 Nov 2022 08:24:48 +0000 (09:24 +0100)
commit8a9bae5f1b531c7337ea8e08b9f1689e6bc1c0a8
treeeac5a47f3f7aab5c2b8b19b7aa0772f6f3aee5b9
parent052d0e79efe57f115c92e1e815d8687c79efc624
firmware: coreboot: Register bus in module init

commit 65946690ed8d972fdb91a74ee75ac0f0f0d68321 upstream.

The coreboot_table driver registers a coreboot bus while probing a
"coreboot_table" device representing the coreboot table memory region.
Probing this device (i.e., registering the bus) is a dependency for the
module_init() functions of any driver for this bus (e.g.,
memconsole-coreboot.c / memconsole_driver_init()).

With synchronous probe, this dependency works OK, as the link order in
the Makefile ensures coreboot_table_driver_init() (and thus,
coreboot_table_probe()) completes before a coreboot device driver tries
to add itself to the bus.

With asynchronous probe, however, coreboot_table_probe() may race with
memconsole_driver_init(), and so we're liable to hit one of these two:

1. coreboot_driver_register() eventually hits "[...] the bus was not
   initialized.", and the memconsole driver fails to register; or
2. coreboot_driver_register() gets past #1, but still races with
   bus_register() and hits some other undefined/crashing behavior (e.g.,
   in driver_find() [1])

We can resolve this by registering the bus in our initcall, and only
deferring "device" work (scanning the coreboot memory region and
creating sub-devices) to probe().

[1] Example failure, using 'driver_async_probe=*' kernel command line:

[    0.114217] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000010
...
[    0.114307] CPU: 1 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 6.1.0-rc1 #63
[    0.114316] Hardware name: Google Scarlet (DT)
...
[    0.114488] Call trace:
[    0.114494]  _raw_spin_lock+0x34/0x60
[    0.114502]  kset_find_obj+0x28/0x84
[    0.114511]  driver_find+0x30/0x50
[    0.114520]  driver_register+0x64/0x10c
[    0.114528]  coreboot_driver_register+0x30/0x3c
[    0.114540]  memconsole_driver_init+0x24/0x30
[    0.114550]  do_one_initcall+0x154/0x2e0
[    0.114560]  do_initcall_level+0x134/0x160
[    0.114571]  do_initcalls+0x60/0xa0
[    0.114579]  do_basic_setup+0x28/0x34
[    0.114588]  kernel_init_freeable+0xf8/0x150
[    0.114596]  kernel_init+0x2c/0x12c
[    0.114607]  ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20
[    0.114624] Code: 5280002b 1100054a b900092a f9800011 (885ffc01)
[    0.114631] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

Fixes: b81e3140e412 ("firmware: coreboot: Make bus registration symmetric")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd <swboyd@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221019180934.1.If29e167d8a4771b0bf4a39c89c6946ed764817b9@changeid
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/firmware/google/coreboot_table.c