Re: [v3 PATCH 6/8] clocksource/drivers/riscv: Add required checks during clock source init

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Fri Feb 08 2019 - 04:04:14 EST


On Thu, Feb 07, 2019 at 05:51:19PM -0800, Atish Patra wrote:
> Currently, clocksource registration happens for an invalid cpu
> for non-smp kernels. This lead to kernel panic as cpu hotplug
> registration will fail for those cpus. Moreover,
> riscv_hartid_to_cpuid can return errors now.
>
> Do not proceed if hartid or cpuid is invalid. Take this opprtunity
> to print appropriate error strings for different failure cases.
>
> Signed-off-by: Atish Patra <atish.patra@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/clocksource/timer-riscv.c | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++---
> 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/clocksource/timer-riscv.c b/drivers/clocksource/timer-riscv.c
> index 43189220..3c7ea75b 100644
> --- a/drivers/clocksource/timer-riscv.c
> +++ b/drivers/clocksource/timer-riscv.c
> @@ -95,13 +95,30 @@ static int __init riscv_timer_init_dt(struct device_node *n)
> struct clocksource *cs;
>
> hartid = riscv_of_processor_hartid(n);
> + if (hartid < 0) {
> + pr_warn("Not valid hartid for node [%pOF] error = [%d]\n",
> + n, hartid);
> + return hartid;
> + }
> +
> cpuid = riscv_hartid_to_cpuid(hartid);
> + if (cpuid < 0) {
> + pr_warn("Invalid cpuid for hartid [%d]\n", hartid);
> + return cpuid;
> + }
>
> if (cpuid != smp_processor_id())
> return 0;
>
> + pr_err("%s: Registering clocksource cpuid [%d] hartid [%d]\n",
> + __func__, cpuid, hartid);

This does not look like an error case to me. At best it is info,
if not debug.