Re: [PATCH] drm/mipi-dsi: Fix detach call without attach

[Sebastian Reichel]

Hi,

On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 01:50:32PM +0300, Tomi Valkeinen wrote:
> It's been reported that DSI host driver's detach can be called without
> the attach ever happening:
> 
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230412073954.20601-1-tony@xxxxxxxxxxx/
> 
> After reading the code, I think this is what happens:
> 
> We have a DSI host defined in the device tree and a DSI peripheral under
> that host (i.e. an i2c device using the DSI as data bus doesn't exhibit
> this behavior).
> 
> The host driver calls mipi_dsi_host_register(), which causes (via a few
> functions) mipi_dsi_device_add() to be called for the DSI peripheral. So
> now we have a DSI device under the host, but attach hasn't been called.
> 
> Normally the probing of the devices continues, and eventually the DSI
> peripheral's driver will call mipi_dsi_attach(), attaching the
> peripheral.
> 
> However, if the host driver's probe encounters an error after calling
> mipi_dsi_host_register(), and before the peripheral has called
> mipi_dsi_attach(), the host driver will do cleanups and return an error
> from its probe function. The cleanups include calling
> mipi_dsi_host_unregister().
> 
> mipi_dsi_host_unregister() will call two functions for all its DSI
> peripheral devices: mipi_dsi_detach() and mipi_dsi_device_unregister().
> The latter makes sense, as the device exists, but the former may be
> wrong as attach has not necessarily been done.
> 
> To fix this, track the attached state of the peripheral, and only detach
> from mipi_dsi_host_unregister() if the peripheral was attached.
> 
> Note that I have only tested this with a board with an i2c DSI
> peripheral, not with a "pure" DSI peripheral.
> 
> However, slightly related, the unregister machinery still seems broken.
> E.g. if the DSI host driver is unbound, it'll detach and unregister the
> DSI peripherals. After that, when the DSI peripheral driver unbound
> it'll call detach either directly or using the devm variant, leading to
> a crash. And probably the driver will crash if it happens, for some
> reason, to try to send a message via the DSI bus.
> 
> But that's another topic.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Sebastian Reichel <sebastian.reichel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

-- Sebastian

>  drivers/gpu/drm/drm_mipi_dsi.c | 17 +++++++++++++++--
>  include/drm/drm_mipi_dsi.h     |  2 ++
>  2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_mipi_dsi.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_mipi_dsi.c
> index 14201f73aab1..843a6dbda93a 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_mipi_dsi.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_mipi_dsi.c
> @@ -347,7 +347,8 @@ static int mipi_dsi_remove_device_fn(struct device *dev, void *priv)
>  {
>  	struct mipi_dsi_device *dsi = to_mipi_dsi_device(dev);
>  
> -	mipi_dsi_detach(dsi);
> +	if (dsi->attached)
> +		mipi_dsi_detach(dsi);
>  	mipi_dsi_device_unregister(dsi);
>  
>  	return 0;
> @@ -370,11 +371,18 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(mipi_dsi_host_unregister);
>  int mipi_dsi_attach(struct mipi_dsi_device *dsi)
>  {
>  	const struct mipi_dsi_host_ops *ops = dsi->host->ops;
> +	int ret;
>  
>  	if (!ops || !ops->attach)
>  		return -ENOSYS;
>  
> -	return ops->attach(dsi->host, dsi);
> +	ret = ops->attach(dsi->host, dsi);
> +	if (ret)
> +		return ret;
> +
> +	dsi->attached = true;
> +
> +	return 0;
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(mipi_dsi_attach);
>  
> @@ -386,9 +394,14 @@ int mipi_dsi_detach(struct mipi_dsi_device *dsi)
>  {
>  	const struct mipi_dsi_host_ops *ops = dsi->host->ops;
>  
> +	if (WARN_ON(!dsi->attached))
> +		return -EINVAL;
> +
>  	if (!ops || !ops->detach)
>  		return -ENOSYS;
>  
> +	dsi->attached = false;
> +
>  	return ops->detach(dsi->host, dsi);
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(mipi_dsi_detach);
> diff --git a/include/drm/drm_mipi_dsi.h b/include/drm/drm_mipi_dsi.h
> index c9df0407980c..c0aec0d4d664 100644
> --- a/include/drm/drm_mipi_dsi.h
> +++ b/include/drm/drm_mipi_dsi.h
> @@ -168,6 +168,7 @@ struct mipi_dsi_device_info {
>   * struct mipi_dsi_device - DSI peripheral device
>   * @host: DSI host for this peripheral
>   * @dev: driver model device node for this peripheral
> + * @attached: the DSI device has been successfully attached
>   * @name: DSI peripheral chip type
>   * @channel: virtual channel assigned to the peripheral
>   * @format: pixel format for video mode
> @@ -184,6 +185,7 @@ struct mipi_dsi_device_info {
>  struct mipi_dsi_device {
>  	struct mipi_dsi_host *host;
>  	struct device dev;
> +	bool attached;
>  
>  	char name[DSI_DEV_NAME_SIZE];
>  	unsigned int channel;
> 
> ---
> base-commit: 9fc75c40faa29df14ba16066be6bdfaea9f39ce4
> change-id: 20230921-dsi-detach-fix-6736f7a48ba7
> 
> Best regards,
> -- 
> Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>

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