Re: [PATCH 1/2] coresight: cti: Initialize dynamic sysfs attributes

From: Greg KH
Date: Thu Oct 29 2020 - 15:09:54 EST


On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 10:45:58AM -0600, Mathieu Poirier wrote:
> From: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@xxxxxxx>
>
> With LOCKDEP enabled, CTI driver triggers the following splat due
> to uninitialized lock class for dynamically allocated attribute
> objects.
>
> [ 5.372901] coresight etm0: CPU0: ETM v4.0 initialized
> [ 5.376694] coresight etm1: CPU1: ETM v4.0 initialized
> [ 5.380785] coresight etm2: CPU2: ETM v4.0 initialized
> [ 5.385851] coresight etm3: CPU3: ETM v4.0 initialized
> [ 5.389808] BUG: key ffff00000564a798 has not been registered!
> [ 5.392456] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> [ 5.398195] DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON(1)
> [ 5.398233] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 32 at kernel/locking/lockdep.c:4623 lockdep_init_map_waits+0x14c/0x260
> [ 5.406149] Modules linked in:
> [ 5.415411] CPU: 1 PID: 32 Comm: kworker/1:1 Not tainted 5.9.0-12034-gbbe85027ce80 #51
> [ 5.418553] Hardware name: Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. APQ 8016 SBC (DT)
> [ 5.426453] Workqueue: events amba_deferred_retry_func
> [ 5.433299] pstate: 40000005 (nZcv daif -PAN -UAO -TCO BTYPE=--)
> [ 5.438252] pc : lockdep_init_map_waits+0x14c/0x260
> [ 5.444410] lr : lockdep_init_map_waits+0x14c/0x260
> [ 5.449007] sp : ffff800012bbb720
> ...
>
> [ 5.531561] Call trace:
> [ 5.536847] lockdep_init_map_waits+0x14c/0x260
> [ 5.539027] __kernfs_create_file+0xa8/0x1c8
> [ 5.543539] sysfs_add_file_mode_ns+0xd0/0x208
> [ 5.548054] internal_create_group+0x118/0x3c8
> [ 5.552307] internal_create_groups+0x58/0xb8
> [ 5.556733] sysfs_create_groups+0x2c/0x38
> [ 5.561160] device_add+0x2d8/0x768
> [ 5.565148] device_register+0x28/0x38
> [ 5.568537] coresight_register+0xf8/0x320
> [ 5.572358] cti_probe+0x1b0/0x3f0
>
> ...
>
> Fix this by initializing the attributes when they are allocated.
>
> Fixes: 3c5597e39812 ("coresight: cti: Add connection information to sysfs")
> Reported-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Mike Leach <mike.leach@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-cti-sysfs.c | 7 +++++++
> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-cti-sysfs.c b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-cti-sysfs.c
> index 392757f3a019..7ff7e7780bbf 100644
> --- a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-cti-sysfs.c
> +++ b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-cti-sysfs.c
> @@ -1065,6 +1065,13 @@ static int cti_create_con_sysfs_attr(struct device *dev,
> }
> eattr->var = con;
> con->con_attrs[attr_idx] = &eattr->attr.attr;
> + /*
> + * Initialize the dynamically allocated attribute
> + * to avoid LOCKDEP splat. See include/linux/sysfs.h
> + * for more details.
> + */
> + sysfs_attr_init(con->con_attrs[attr_idx]);
> +
> return 0;
> }

Should go to stable kernels too, as the patch this fixes is in 5.7.
I'll add the stable tag here, but feel free to do it yourself next time
:)

thanks,

greg k-h