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firmware: qcom: scm: Fix missing read barrier in qcom_scm_is_available()
authorKrzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org>
Mon, 9 Dec 2024 14:27:54 +0000 (15:27 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 27 Feb 2025 12:10:45 +0000 (04:10 -0800)
commitb11052c8c4f24daec97bc8fbb9357b414678f740
tree213aa83637c933304a17c7de77567dcd8f5eb91e
parent67f04c52e5f96393a52fad60e69b44e2dbcd5d39
firmware: qcom: scm: Fix missing read barrier in qcom_scm_is_available()

[ Upstream commit 0a744cceebd0480cb39587b3b1339d66a9d14063 ]

Commit 2e4955167ec5 ("firmware: qcom: scm: Fix __scm and waitq
completion variable initialization") introduced a write barrier in probe
function to store global '__scm' variable.  It also claimed that it
added a read barrier, because as we all known barriers are paired (see
memory-barriers.txt: "Note that write barriers should normally be paired
with read or address-dependency barriers"), however it did not really
add it.

The offending commit used READ_ONCE() to access '__scm' global which is
not a barrier.

The barrier is needed so the store to '__scm' will be properly visible.
This is most likely not fatal in current driver design, because missing
read barrier would mean qcom_scm_is_available() callers will access old
value, NULL.  Driver does not support unbinding and does not correctly
handle probe failures, thus there is no risk of stale or old pointer in
'__scm' variable.

However for code correctness, readability and to be sure that we did not
mess up something in this tricky topic of SMP barriers, add a read
barrier for accessing '__scm'.  Change also comment from useless/obvious
what does barrier do, to what is expected: which other parts of the code
are involved here.

Fixes: 2e4955167ec5 ("firmware: qcom: scm: Fix __scm and waitq completion variable initialization")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241209-qcom-scm-missing-barriers-and-all-sort-of-srap-v2-1-9061013c8d92@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Andersson <andersson@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
drivers/firmware/qcom_scm.c