Currently the gsmi driver registers a panic notifier as well as
reboot and die notifiers. The callbacks registered are called in
atomic and very limited context - for instance, panic disables
preemption, local IRQs and all other CPUs that aren't running the
current panic function.

With that said, taking a spinlock in this scenario is a
dangerous invitation for a deadlock scenario. So, we fix
that in this commit by changing the regular spinlock with
a trylock, which is a safer approach.

Fixes: 74c5b31c6618 ("driver: Google EFI SMI")
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]>
Cc: David Gow <[email protected]>
Cc: Evan Green <[email protected]>
Cc: Julius Werner <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli <[email protected]>
---
 drivers/firmware/google/gsmi.c | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/firmware/google/gsmi.c b/drivers/firmware/google/gsmi.c
index adaa492c3d2d..b01ed02e4a87 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/google/gsmi.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/google/gsmi.c
@@ -629,7 +629,10 @@ static int gsmi_shutdown_reason(int reason)
        if (saved_reason & (1 << reason))
                return 0;
 
-       spin_lock_irqsave(&gsmi_dev.lock, flags);
+       if (!spin_trylock_irqsave(&gsmi_dev.lock, flags)) {
+               rc = -EBUSY;
+               goto out;
+       }
 
        saved_reason |= (1 << reason);
 
@@ -646,6 +649,7 @@ static int gsmi_shutdown_reason(int reason)
 
        spin_unlock_irqrestore(&gsmi_dev.lock, flags);
 
+out:
        if (rc < 0)
                printk(KERN_ERR "gsmi: Log Shutdown Reason failed\n");
        else
-- 
2.36.0


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