regulator: core: avoid regulator_resolve_supply() race condition
The final step in regulator_register() is to call regulator_resolve_supply() for each registered regulator (including the one in the process of being registered). The regulator_resolve_supply() function first checks if rdev->supply is NULL, then it performs various steps to try to find the supply. If successful, rdev->supply is set inside of set_supply(). This procedure can encounter a race condition if two concurrent tasks call regulator_register() near to each other on separate CPUs and one of the regulators has rdev->supply_name specified. There is currently nothing guaranteeing atomicity between the rdev->supply check and set steps. Thus, both tasks can observe rdev->supply==NULL in their regulator_resolve_supply() calls. This then results in both creating a struct regulator for the supply. One ends up actually stored in rdev->supply and the other is lost (though still present in the supply's consumer_list). Here is a kernel log snippet showing the issue: [ 12.421768] gpu_cc_gx_gdsc: supplied by pm8350_s5_level [ 12.425854] gpu_cc_gx_gdsc: supplied by pm8350_s5_level [ 12.429064] debugfs: Directory 'regulator.4-SUPPLY' with parent '17a00000.rsc:rpmh-regulator-gfxlvl-pm8350_s5_level' already present! Avoid this race condition by holding the rdev->mutex lock inside of regulator_resolve_supply() while checking and setting rdev->supply. Signed-off-by: David Collins <collinsd@codeaurora.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1610068562-4410-1-git-send-email-collinsd@codeaurora.orgSigned-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
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