Re: [PATCH 2/2] clk: qcom: Support 'protected-clocks' property

From: Bjorn Andersson
Date: Mon Nov 05 2018 - 20:05:20 EST


On Mon 05 Nov 11:40 PST 2018, Stephen Boyd wrote:

> Certain firmware configurations "protect" clks and cause the entire
> system to reboot when a non-secure OS such as Linux tries to read or
> write protected clk registers. But other firmware configurations allow
> reading or writing the same registers, and they may actually require
> that the OS use the otherwise locked down clks. Support the
> 'protected-clocks' property by never registering these protected clks
> with the common clk framework. This way, when firmware is protecting
> these clks we won't have the chance to ever read or write these
> registers and take down the entire system.
>
> Cc: Taniya Das <tdas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <swboyd@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@xxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@xxxxxxxxxx>

Regards,
Bjorn

> ---
> drivers/clk/qcom/common.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/clk/qcom/common.c b/drivers/clk/qcom/common.c
> index db9b2471ac40..0a48ed56833b 100644
> --- a/drivers/clk/qcom/common.c
> +++ b/drivers/clk/qcom/common.c
> @@ -191,6 +191,22 @@ int qcom_cc_register_sleep_clk(struct device *dev)
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(qcom_cc_register_sleep_clk);
>
> +/* Drop 'protected-clocks' from the list of clocks to register */
> +static void qcom_cc_drop_protected(struct device *dev, struct qcom_cc *cc)
> +{
> + struct device_node *np = dev->of_node;
> + struct property *prop;
> + const __be32 *p;
> + u32 i;
> +
> + of_property_for_each_u32(np, "protected-clocks", prop, p, i) {
> + if (i >= cc->num_rclks)
> + continue;
> +
> + cc->rclks[i] = NULL;
> + }
> +}
> +
> static struct clk_hw *qcom_cc_clk_hw_get(struct of_phandle_args *clkspec,
> void *data)
> {
> @@ -251,6 +267,8 @@ int qcom_cc_really_probe(struct platform_device *pdev,
> cc->rclks = rclks;
> cc->num_rclks = num_clks;
>
> + qcom_cc_drop_protected(dev, cc);
> +
> for (i = 0; i < num_clks; i++) {
> if (!rclks[i])
> continue;
> --
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>