PCI: aardvark: Fix kernel panic during PIO transfer
authorPali Rohár <pali@kernel.org>
Tue, 8 Jun 2021 20:36:55 +0000 (22:36 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 23 Jun 2021 12:42:51 +0000 (14:42 +0200)
commit1a1dbc4473974867fe8c5f195c17b341c8e82867
tree2438e8988a66daf8cec910022e035e27dc007294
parentdac77a14fa2740d7d4d9df16164689a8dc3ce175
PCI: aardvark: Fix kernel panic during PIO transfer

commit f18139966d072dab8e4398c95ce955a9742e04f7 upstream.

Trying to start a new PIO transfer by writing value 0 in PIO_START register
when previous transfer has not yet completed (which is indicated by value 1
in PIO_START) causes an External Abort on CPU, which results in kernel
panic:

    SError Interrupt on CPU0, code 0xbf000002 -- SError
    Kernel panic - not syncing: Asynchronous SError Interrupt

To prevent kernel panic, it is required to reject a new PIO transfer when
previous one has not finished yet.

If previous PIO transfer is not finished yet, the kernel may issue a new
PIO request only if the previous PIO transfer timed out.

In the past the root cause of this issue was incorrectly identified (as it
often happens during link retraining or after link down event) and special
hack was implemented in Trusted Firmware to catch all SError events in EL3,
to ignore errors with code 0xbf000002 and not forwarding any other errors
to kernel and instead throw panic from EL3 Trusted Firmware handler.

Links to discussion and patches about this issue:
https://git.trustedfirmware.org/TF-A/trusted-firmware-a.git/commit/?id=3c7dcdac5c50
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pci/20190316161243.29517-1-repk@triplefau.lt/
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pci/971be151d24312cc533989a64bd454b4@www.loen.fr/
https://review.trustedfirmware.org/c/TF-A/trusted-firmware-a/+/1541

But the real cause was the fact that during link retraining or after link
down event the PIO transfer may take longer time, up to the 1.44s until it
times out. This increased probability that a new PIO transfer would be
issued by kernel while previous one has not finished yet.

After applying this change into the kernel, it is possible to revert the
mentioned TF-A hack and SError events do not have to be caught in TF-A EL3.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210608203655.31228-1-pali@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Pali Rohár <pali@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Marek Behún <kabel@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 7fbcb5da811b ("PCI: aardvark: Don't rely on jiffies while holding spinlock")
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/pci/controller/pci-aardvark.c