If you happened to try to access `/dev/drm_dp_aux` devices provided by
the MSM DP AUX driver too early at bootup you could go boom. Let's
avoid that by only allowing AUX transfers when the controller is
powered up.
Specifically the crash that was seen (on Chrome OS 5.4 tree with
relevant backports):
Kernel panic - not syncing: Asynchronous SError Interrupt
CPU: 0 PID: 3131 Comm: fwupd Not tainted 5.4.144-16620-g28af11b73efb #1
Hardware name: Google Lazor (rev3+) with KB Backlight (DT)
Call trace:
dump_backtrace+0x0/0x14c
show_stack+0x20/0x2c
dump_stack+0xac/0x124
panic+0x150/0x390
nmi_panic+0x80/0x94
arm64_serror_panic+0x78/0x84
do_serror+0x0/0x118
do_serror+0xa4/0x118
el1_error+0xbc/0x160
dp_catalog_aux_write_data+0x1c/0x3c
dp_aux_cmd_fifo_tx+0xf0/0x1b0
dp_aux_transfer+0x1b0/0x2bc
drm_dp_dpcd_access+0x8c/0x11c
drm_dp_dpcd_read+0x64/0x10c
auxdev_read_iter+0xd4/0x1c4
I did a little bit of tracing and found that:
* We register the AUX device very early at bootup.
* Power isn't actually turned on for my system until
hpd_event_thread() -> dp_display_host_init() -> dp_power_init()
* You can see that dp_power_init() calls dp_aux_init() which is where
we start allowing AUX channel requests to go through.
In general this patch is a bit of a bandaid but at least it gets us
out of the current state where userspace acting at the wrong time can
fully crash the system.
* I think the more proper fix (which requires quite a bit more
changes) is to power stuff on while an AUX transfer is
happening. This is like the solution we did for ti-sn65dsi86. This
might be required for us to move to populating the panel via the
DP-AUX bus.
* Another fix considered was to dynamically register / unregister. I
tried that at <https://crrev.com/c/3169431/3> but it got
ugly. Currently there's a bug where the pm_runtime() state isn't
tracked properly and that causes us to just keep registering more
and more.
Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Kuogee Hsieh <quic_khsieh@quicinc.com>
Reviewed-by: Abhinav Kumar <quic_abhinavk@quicinc.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211109100403.1.I4e23470d681f7efe37e2e7f1a6466e15e9bb1d72@changeid
Signed-off-by: Rob Clark <robdclark@chromium.org>
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