Re: [PATCH v3] pinmux: Use sequential access to access desc->pinmux data

[Linus Walleij]

Hi Mukesh,

On Mon, Oct 14, 2024 at 9:29 PM Mukesh Ojha <quic_mojha@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> When two client of the same gpio call pinctrl_select_state() for the
> same functionality, we are seeing NULL pointer issue while accessing
> desc->mux_owner.
>
> Let's say two processes A, B executing in pin_request() for the same pin
> and process A updates the desc->mux_usecount but not yet updated the
> desc->mux_owner while process B see the desc->mux_usecount which got
> updated by A path and further executes strcmp and while accessing
> desc->mux_owner it crashes with NULL pointer.
>
> Serialize the access to mux related setting with a mutex lock.
>
>         cpu0 (process A)                        cpu1(process B)
>
> pinctrl_select_state() {                  pinctrl_select_state() {
>   pin_request() {                               pin_request() {
>   ...
>                                                  ....
>     } else {
>          desc->mux_usecount++;
>                                                 desc->mux_usecount && strcmp(desc->mux_owner, owner)) {
>
>          if (desc->mux_usecount > 1)
>                return 0;
>          desc->mux_owner = owner;
>
>   }                                             }
>
> Signed-off-by: Mukesh Ojha <quic_mojha@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Sorry for taking so long!

I was turning the patch over in my head for the fear that something will
regress but I can only conclude that we need to test this in-tree, so
patch applied so we can get some rotation and boot tests in linux-next!

Yours,
Linus Walleij