[PATCH v2 1/2] thermal: rcar: Fix race condition between init and interrupt

From: Geert Uytterhoeven
Date: Mon Feb 23 2015 - 10:37:37 EST


As soon as the interrupt has been enabled by devm_request_irq(), the
interrupt routine may be called, depending on the current status of the
hardware.

However, at that point rcar_thermal_common hasn't been initialized
complely yet. E.g. rcar_thermal_common.base is still NULL, causing a
NULL pointer dereference:

Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000c
pgd = c0004000
[0000000c] *pgd=00000000
Internal error: Oops: 5 [#1] SMP ARM
CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.19.0-rc7-ape6evm-04564-gb6e46cb7cbe82389 #30
Hardware name: Generic R8A73A4 (Flattened Device Tree)
task: ee8953c0 ti: ee896000 task.ti: ee896000
PC is at rcar_thermal_irq+0x1c/0xf0
LR is at _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x48/0x54

Postpone the call to devm_request_irq() until all initialization has
been done to fix this.

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Kuninori Morimoto <kuninori.morimoto.gx@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
This triggers sporadically on r8a73a4/ape6evm when starting a new
kernel after a soft power-on reset.

So far I couldn't trigger it on r8a7791/koelsch, not even by adding a
delay just after the call to devm_request_irq().
Probably none of the reboot methods on koelsch are sufficiently "soft"
(da9063-watchdog power-cycles the da9063 regulator, reset button resets
the r2a11302 regulator, even rwdt-restart on SMP=n seems fine)

v2:
- Add Acked-by.
---
drivers/thermal/rcar_thermal.c | 22 +++++++++-------------
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/thermal/rcar_thermal.c b/drivers/thermal/rcar_thermal.c
index 2580a4872f90febe..3c2c1720ba4a4a72 100644
--- a/drivers/thermal/rcar_thermal.c
+++ b/drivers/thermal/rcar_thermal.c
@@ -387,21 +387,9 @@ static int rcar_thermal_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)

irq = platform_get_resource(pdev, IORESOURCE_IRQ, 0);
if (irq) {
- int ret;
-
/*
* platform has IRQ support.
* Then, driver uses common registers
- */
-
- ret = devm_request_irq(dev, irq->start, rcar_thermal_irq, 0,
- dev_name(dev), common);
- if (ret) {
- dev_err(dev, "irq request failed\n ");
- return ret;
- }
-
- /*
* rcar_has_irq_support() will be enabled
*/
res = platform_get_resource(pdev, IORESOURCE_MEM, mres++);
@@ -456,8 +444,16 @@ static int rcar_thermal_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
}

/* enable temperature comparation */
- if (irq)
+ if (irq) {
+ ret = devm_request_irq(dev, irq->start, rcar_thermal_irq, 0,
+ dev_name(dev), common);
+ if (ret) {
+ dev_err(dev, "irq request failed\n ");
+ goto error_unregister;
+ }
+
rcar_thermal_common_write(common, ENR, enr_bits);
+ }

platform_set_drvdata(pdev, common);

--
1.9.1

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