Re: Query regarding "firmware: arm_scmi: Free mailbox channels if probe fails"

[Cristian Marussi]

On Thu, Sep 22, 2022 at 03:54:31PM +0100, Cristian Marussi wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 22, 2022 at 10:31:47AM +0530, Shivnandan Kumar wrote:
> > Hi Christian,
> > 
> 

Hi Shivnandan,
 
[snip]

> Looking at the transport layer that you use, mailbox, I see that while
> setup/free helpers are synchronized on an internal chan->lock, the RX
> path inside the mailbox core is not, so I tried this:
> 
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/mailbox/mailbox.c b/drivers/mailbox/mailbox.c
> index 4229b9b5da98..bb6173c0ad54 100644
> --- a/drivers/mailbox/mailbox.c
> +++ b/drivers/mailbox/mailbox.c
> @@ -157,9 +157,13 @@ static enum hrtimer_restart txdone_hrtimer(struct hrtimer *hrtimer)
>   */
>  void mbox_chan_received_data(struct mbox_chan *chan, void *mssg)
>  {
> +       unsigned long flags;
> +
> +       spin_lock_irqsave(&chan->lock, flags);
>         /* No buffering the received data */
>         if (chan->cl->rx_callback)
>                 chan->cl->rx_callback(chan->cl, mssg);
> +       spin_unlock_irqrestore(&chan->lock, flags);
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mbox_chan_received_data);
>  

...sorry... a small change on the tentative above fix...

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diff --git a/drivers/mailbox/mailbox.c b/drivers/mailbox/mailbox.c
index 4229b9b5da98..6fbe183acdae 100644
--- a/drivers/mailbox/mailbox.c
+++ b/drivers/mailbox/mailbox.c
@@ -157,9 +157,13 @@ static enum hrtimer_restart txdone_hrtimer(struct hrtimer *hrtimer)
  */
 void mbox_chan_received_data(struct mbox_chan *chan, void *mssg)
 {
+       unsigned long flags;
+
+       spin_lock_irqsave(&chan->lock, flags);
        /* No buffering the received data */
-       if (chan->cl->rx_callback)
+       if (chan->cl && chan->cl->rx_callback)
                chan->cl->rx_callback(chan->cl, mssg);
+       spin_unlock_irqrestore(&chan->lock, flags);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mbox_chan_received_data);

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Thanks,
Cristian