From: Yonghao Zhang <hyz3367@gmail.com>
To: andersson@kernel.org, mathieu.poirier@linaro.org
Cc: linux-remoteproc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Yonghao Zhang <hyz3367@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/4] remoteproc: core: Reset freed vring entries to FW_RSC_ADDR_ANY
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2026 15:54:50 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260929075453.2324597-2-hyz3367@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260929075453.2324597-1-hyz3367@gmail.com>
rproc_free_vring() resets a vring entry in the resource table as it
releases it. Resetting da to 0 leaves the entry looking like a vring
at device address 0; write FW_RSC_ADDR_ANY instead, the marker for an
unallocated address, which is what the entry means from then on.
That matters on the error paths of rproc_start() and rproc_attach(),
where rproc_free_vring() runs while the remote processor is already
running: the failure originates in rp_find_vq(), called through
virtio_find_vqs() from e.g. rpmsg_probe(), which the core only
reaches through rproc_start_subdevices(), after ops->start() or
ops->attach() have completed. At that point table_ptr is the
resource table installed in remote processor memory, and whatever
the reset writes is visible to the remote side. Whether and when a
running processor reads the entry cannot be known, so the value must
be safe for one: 0 is a plausible device address, FW_RSC_ADDR_ANY is
not. On the teardown paths, stop and detach, the write lands in the
cached table or in a copy of the installed one and reaches no one.
The comment replaced along with it was written for a call graph that
no longer exists. It described the teardown callers only:
rproc_stop() has run, table_ptr points at the cached table, and that
table is NULL for a processor started by another entity, so there is
nothing to clear. Two facts have overtaken it:
- rp_find_vq() has been calling rproc_free_vring() when
vring_new_virtqueue() fails since commit 6db20ea8d850 ("remoteproc:
allocate vrings on demand, free when not needed"), and that call
was present, unchanged, when commit 9dc9507f1880 ("remoteproc:
Properly deal with the resource table when detaching") landed: it
runs from rproc_start_subdevices(), after ops->start() or
ops->attach() have completed, with table_ptr at the table installed
in remote processor memory and the processor running. The comment
never described this caller, not on the day it was written.
- commit 9dc9507f1880 ("remoteproc: Properly deal with the resource
table when detaching") and commit 8088dd4d9316 ("remoteproc: Properly
deal with the resource table when stopping") later taught the
detach/stop paths to take a kmemdup() copy of the installed table for
processors started by another entity, so the NULL case the guard was
deciding between is gone: table_ptr is always valid where the teardown
callers run. (Those callers have since moved to the rproc-virtio
platform driver, 9c31255ce5fe.)
Fixes: c0d631570ad5 ("remoteproc: set vring addresses in resource table")
Fixes: 4d3ebb3b9990 ("remoteproc: Refactor function rproc_free_vring()")
Signed-off-by: Yonghao Zhang <hyz3367@gmail.com>
---
drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_core.c | 40 +++++++++++++++++++---------
1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_core.c b/drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_core.c
index 263e12f022ea..123aadb467a0 100644
--- a/drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_core.c
+++ b/drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_core.c
@@ -403,6 +403,33 @@ rproc_parse_vring(struct rproc_vdev *rvdev, struct fw_rsc_vdev *rsc, int i)
return 0;
}
+/*
+ * rproc_free_vring() runs while a remote processor is being torn down
+ * (rproc_stop()/rproc_detach() paths) or while a boot or attach attempt
+ * is failing. Whether the reset below can reach the remote processor
+ * depends on what rproc->table_ptr refers to at that point:
+ *
+ * - teardown paths: the call comes from the rvdev cleanup in
+ * rproc_resource_cleanup(), by which time rproc_stop()/__rproc_detach()
+ * have switched table_ptr to the table the core was booted with, or
+ * to a copy of the installed table when the remote processor was
+ * started by another entity (rproc_reset_rsc_table_on_{stop,detach}()),
+ * so the write cannot reach the remote processor.
+ *
+ * - error paths of rproc_start()/rproc_attach(): the failure originates
+ * in rp_find_vq() (virtio_find_vqs() failing in e.g. rpmsg_probe()),
+ * which rproc_start_subdevices() calls only once ops->start() or
+ * ops->attach() have completed. table_ptr still points at the
+ * resource table installed in remote processor memory and the remote
+ * processor is already running.
+ *
+ * Especially in the last case the reset has to tell the remote
+ * processor that the vring entry is not usable: with da set to the
+ * invalid FW_RSC_ADDR_ANY a running remote processor sees the address
+ * as unallocated, and notifyid is invalidated along with it.
+ *
+ * Reset the virtio device section only if there is a table to work with.
+ */
void rproc_free_vring(struct rproc_vring *rvring)
{
struct rproc *rproc = rvring->rvdev->rproc;
@@ -411,20 +438,9 @@ void rproc_free_vring(struct rproc_vring *rvring)
idr_remove(&rproc->notifyids, rvring->notifyid);
- /*
- * At this point rproc_stop() has been called and the installed resource
- * table in the remote processor memory may no longer be accessible. As
- * such and as per rproc_stop(), rproc->table_ptr points to the cached
- * resource table (rproc->cached_table). The cached resource table is
- * only available when a remote processor has been booted by the
- * remoteproc core, otherwise it is NULL.
- *
- * Based on the above, reset the virtio device section in the cached
- * resource table only if there is one to work with.
- */
if (rproc->table_ptr) {
rsc = (void *)rproc->table_ptr + rvring->rvdev->rsc_offset;
- rsc->vring[idx].da = 0;
+ rsc->vring[idx].da = FW_RSC_ADDR_ANY;
rsc->vring[idx].notifyid = -1;
}
}
--
2.34.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-29 7:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-29 7:54 [PATCH 0/4] remoteproc: core: Fix the error unwind paths Yonghao Zhang
2026-09-29 7:54 ` Yonghao Zhang [this message]
2026-09-29 7:54 ` [PATCH 2/4] remoteproc: core: Guard against a missing stop() in rproc_start() Yonghao Zhang
2026-09-29 7:54 ` [PATCH 3/4] remoteproc: core: Roll a failed attach back with detach() when available Yonghao Zhang
2026-09-29 7:54 ` [PATCH 4/4] remoteproc: core: Clean up after a failed recovery Yonghao Zhang
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