From: Saravana Kannan <saravanak@google.com>
To: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>, Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@baylibre.com>,
Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>,
Neil Armstrong <narmstrong@baylibre.com>,
Jerome Brunet <jbrunet@baylibre.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] irqchip: irq-meson-gpio: make it possible to build as a module
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2021 14:47:24 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGETcx8bpWQEnkpJ0YW9GqX8WE0ewT45zqkbWWdZ0ktJBhG4yQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGETcx95kHrv8wA-O+-JtfH7H9biJEGJtijuPVN0V5dUKUAB3A@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Aug 4, 2021 at 11:20 AM Saravana Kannan <saravanak@google.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Aug 4, 2021 at 1:50 AM Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 04 Aug 2021 02:36:45 +0100,
> > Saravana Kannan <saravanak@google.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Saravana,
> >
> > Thanks for looking into this.
>
> You are welcome. I just don't want people to think fw_devlink is broken :)
>
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > > > Saravana, could you please have a look from a fw_devlink perspective?
> > >
> > > Sigh... I spent several hours looking at this and wrote up an analysis
> > > and then realized I might be looking at the wrong DT files.
> > >
> > > Marc, can you point me to the board file in upstream that corresponds
> > > to the platform in which you see this issue? I'm not asking for [1],
> > > but the actual final .dts (not .dtsi) file that corresponds to the
> > > platform/board/system.
> >
> > The platform I can reproduce this on is described in
> > arch/arm64/boot/dts/amlogic/meson-sm1-khadas-vim3l.dts. It is an
> > intricate maze of inclusion, node merge and other DT subtleties. I
> > suggest you look at the decompiled version to get a view of the
> > result.
>
> Thanks. After decompiling it, it looks something like (stripped a
> bunch of reg and address properties and added the labels back):
>
> eth_phy: mdio-multiplexer@4c000 {
> compatible = "amlogic,g12a-mdio-mux";
> clocks = <0x02 0x13 0x1e 0x02 0xb1>;
> clock-names = "pclk\0clkin0\0clkin1";
> mdio-parent-bus = <0x22>;
>
> ext_mdio: mdio@0 {
> reg = <0x00>;
>
> ethernet-phy@0 {
> max-speed = <0x3e8>;
> interrupt-parent = <0x23>;
> interrupts = <0x1a 0x08>;
> phandle = <0x16>;
> };
> };
>
> int_mdio: mdio@1 {
> ...
> }
> }
>
> And phandle 0x23 refers to the gpio_intc interrupt controller with the
> modular driver.
>
> > > Based on your error messages, it's failing for mdio@0 which
> > > corresponds to ext_mdio. But none of the board dts files in upstream
> > > have a compatible property for "ext_mdio". Which means fw_devlink
> > > _should_ propagate the gpio_intc IRQ dependency all the way up to
> > > eth_phy.
> > >
> > > Also, in the failing case, can you run:
> > > ls -ld supplier:*
> > >
> > > in the /sys/devices/....<something>/ folder that corresponds to the
> > > "eth_phy: mdio-multiplexer@4c000" DT node and tell me what it shows?
> >
> > Here you go:
> >
> > root@tiger-roach:~# find /sys/devices/ -name 'supplier*'|grep -i mdio | xargs ls -ld
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Aug 4 09:47 /sys/devices/platform/soc/ff600000.bus/ff64c000.mdio-multiplexer/supplier:platform:ff63c000.system-controller:clock-controller -> ../../../../virtual/devlink/platform:ff63c000.system-controller:clock-controller--platform:ff64c000.mdio-multiplexer
>
> As we discussed over chat, this was taken after the mdio-multiplexer
> driver "successfully" probes this device. This will cause
> SYNC_STATE_ONLY device links created by fw_devlink to be deleted
> (because they are useless after a device probes). So, this doesn't
> show the info I was hoping to demonstrate.
>
> In any case, one can see that fw_devlink properly created the device
> link for the clocks dependency. So fw_devlink is parsing this node
> properly. But it doesn't create a similar probe order enforcing device
> link between the mdio-multiplexer and the gpio_intc because the
> dependency is only present in a grand child DT node (ethernet-phy@0
> under ext_mdio). So fw_devlink is working as intended.
>
> I spent several hours squinting at the code/DT yesterday. Here's what
> is going on and causing the problem:
>
> The failing driver in this case is
> drivers/net/mdio/mdio-mux-meson-g12a.c. And the only DT node it's
> handling is what I pasted above in this email. In the failure case,
> the call flow is something like this:
>
> g12a_mdio_mux_probe()
> -> mdio_mux_init()
> -> of_mdiobus_register(ext_mdio DT node)
> -> of_mdiobus_register_phy(ext_mdio DT node)
> -> several calls deep fwnode_mdiobus_phy_device_register(ethernet_phy DT node)
> -> Tried to get the IRQ listed in ethernet_phy and fails with
> -EPROBE_DEFER because the IRQ driver isn't loaded yet.
>
> The error is propagated correctly all the way up to of_mdiobus_register(), but
> mdio_mux_init() ignores the -EPROBE_DEFER from of_mdiobus_register() and just
> continues on with the rest of the stuff and returns success as long as
> one of the child nodes (in this case int_mdio) succeeds.
>
> Since the probe returns 0 without really succeeding, networking stuff
> just fails badly after this. So, IMO, the real problem is with
> mdio_mux_init() not propagating up the -EPROBE_DEFER. I gave Marc a
> quick hack (pasted at the end of this email) to test my theory and he
> confirmed that it fixes the issue (a few deferred probes later, things
> work properly).
>
> Andrew, I don't see any good reason for mdio_mux_init() not
> propagating the errors up correctly (at least for EPROBE_DEFER). I'll
> send a patch to fix this. Please let me know if there's a reason it
> has to stay as-is.
I sent out the proper fix as a series:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210804214333.927985-1-saravanak@google.com/T/#t
Marc, can you give it a shot please?
-Saravana
>
> -Saravana
>
> index 110e4ee85785..d973a267151f 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/mdio/mdio-mux.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/mdio/mdio-mux.c
> @@ -170,6 +170,9 @@ int mdio_mux_init(struct device *dev,
> child_bus_node);
> mdiobus_free(cb->mii_bus);
> devm_kfree(dev, cb);
> + /* Not a final fix. I think it can cause UAF issues. */
> + mdio_mux_uninit(pb);
> + return r;
> } else {
> cb->next = pb->children;
> pb->children = cb;
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Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-20 7:25 [PATCH 0/2] irq-meson-gpio: make it possible to build as a module Neil Armstrong
2020-10-20 7:25 ` [PATCH 1/2] irqchip: " Neil Armstrong
2020-10-20 18:23 ` Kevin Hilman
[not found] ` <CAF2Aj3g6c8FEZb3e1by6sd8LpKLaeN5hsKrrQkZUvh8hosiW9A@mail.gmail.com>
2021-05-24 10:11 ` Marc Zyngier
2021-05-25 16:17 ` Kevin Hilman
2021-05-25 16:30 ` Lee Jones
2021-06-14 22:30 ` Kevin Hilman
2021-07-13 9:05 ` Lee Jones
2021-08-03 9:44 ` Marc Zyngier
2021-08-03 9:51 ` Marc Zyngier
2021-08-04 2:11 ` Saravana Kannan
2021-08-03 9:51 ` Neil Armstrong
2021-08-04 1:36 ` Saravana Kannan
2021-08-04 8:50 ` Marc Zyngier
2021-08-04 18:20 ` Saravana Kannan
2021-08-04 21:47 ` Saravana Kannan [this message]
2021-08-05 6:31 ` Neil Armstrong
2021-08-06 23:55 ` Saravana Kannan
2021-08-05 7:57 ` Lee Jones
2021-08-16 12:47 ` Lee Jones
2021-08-16 20:27 ` Saravana Kannan
2021-08-16 20:46 ` Andrew Lunn
2021-08-16 21:02 ` Saravana Kannan
2021-08-16 21:18 ` Andrew Lunn
2021-08-17 7:24 ` Lee Jones
2021-08-17 18:12 ` Saravana Kannan
2021-08-18 11:19 ` Marc Zyngier
2021-09-02 9:28 ` Neil Armstrong
2020-10-20 7:25 ` [PATCH 2/2] arm64: meson: remove MESON_IRQ_GPIO selection Neil Armstrong
2020-10-20 23:18 ` Kevin Hilman
2020-10-25 11:51 ` [PATCH 0/2] irq-meson-gpio: make it possible to build as a module Marc Zyngier
2020-10-26 16:18 ` Kevin Hilman
2020-10-26 17:00 ` Marc Zyngier
2020-10-26 17:28 ` Kevin Hilman
2020-10-26 17:33 ` Kevin Hilman
2020-10-26 18:30 ` Marc Zyngier
2020-10-26 23:45 ` Kevin Hilman
2021-09-02 13:49 Neil Armstrong
2021-09-02 13:49 ` [PATCH 1/2] irqchip: " Neil Armstrong
2021-09-02 17:00 ` Saravana Kannan
2021-09-28 10:45 ` Lee Jones
2021-09-28 23:27 ` Kevin Hilman
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