[PATCH 6.1.y] coresight: etb10: restore atomic_t for shared reading state
From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Date: 2026-07-15 16:30:25
Subsystem:
arm/coresight framework and drivers, hardware tracing facilities, the rest · Maintainers:
Suzuki K Poulose, Alexander Shishkin, Linus Torvalds
From: Runyu Xiao <redacted>
[ Upstream commit fa09f08ede3db3050ae16ae1ed92c902d0cada23 ]
The etb10 miscdevice uses drvdata->reading as a shared exclusivity gate
for userspace buffer access. etb_open() claims that gate with
local_cmpxchg(), and etb_release() clears it with local_set().
That gate is shared per-device state rather than CPU-local state. A
running system can reach it whenever /dev/<etb> is opened, closed, and
reopened by different tasks while the device remains registered, so the
same drvdata->reading variable may be claimed on one CPU and later
cleared on another.
This code used to use atomic_t for the same gate, but commit
27b10da8fff2 ("coresight: etb10: moving to local atomic operations")
changed it to local_t even though the access pattern remained cross-task
and cross-CPU. Restore atomic_t together with atomic_cmpxchg() and
atomic_set() so the exclusivity gate again uses a primitive intended
for shared state.
The issue was found on Linux v6.18.21 by our static analysis tool while
scanning surviving local_t-on-shared-state sites, and then manually
reviewed against the live etb10 file-op path.
It was runtime-validated with a reproducible QEMU no-device KCSAN PoC
that kept the same report-local contract:
1. use one shared struct etb_drvdata carrier and its
drvdata->reading gate;
2. call etb_open() and etb_release() sequentially on that gate to
confirm the original claim/clear path;
3. bind the open side to CPU0 and the release side to CPU1 for the
same gate to show cross-CPU ownership;
4. run bound workers that repeatedly race etb_open() and
etb_release() on the same gate until KCSAN reports a target hit.
The harness recorded:
L1 passed open=1 release=1
reading_after_open=1 reading_after_release=0
L2 passed open_cpu=0 release_cpu=1
cross_cpu_release=1 reading_after=0 open_ret=0
Representative KCSAN excerpt from the no-device validation run:
BUG: KCSAN: data-race in etb_open.constprop.0.isra.0 [vuln_msv]
write to 0xffffffffc0003810 of 4 bytes by task 216 on cpu 1:
etb_open.constprop.0.isra.0+0x38/0x80 [vuln_msv]
l3_worker_thread_fn+0x4f/0xf0 [vuln_msv]
kthread+0x17e/0x1c0
ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
read to 0xffffffffc0003810 of 4 bytes by task 215 on cpu 0:
etb_open.constprop.0.isra.0+0x18/0x80 [vuln_msv]
l3_worker_thread_fn+0x4f/0xf0 [vuln_msv]
kthread+0x17e/0x1c0
ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
value changed: 0x00000000 -> 0x00000001
Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on:
CPU: 0 PID: 215 Comm: etb10_l3_a Tainted: G O 6.1.66 #2
This no-device harness is not a real ETB10 hardware end-to-end run, but
it preserves the same shared drvdata->reading gate and the same
etb_open()/etb_release() claim/clear contract. No real ETB10 hardware
was available for runtime testing.
Build-tested with:
make olddefconfig
make -j"$(nproc)" drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etb10.o
Fixes: 27b10da8fff2 ("coresight: etb10: moving to local atomic operations")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Runyu Xiao <redacted>
Reviewed-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260528165201.319452-1-runyu.xiao@seu.edu.cn (local)
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etb10.c | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etb10.c b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etb10.c
index 8aa6e4f83e42b5..d73b2dec6937d7 100644
--- a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etb10.c
+++ b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etb10.c@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ struct etb_drvdata { struct coresight_device *csdev; struct miscdevice miscdev; spinlock_t spinlock; - local_t reading; + atomic_t reading; pid_t pid; u8 *buf; u32 mode;
@@ -603,7 +603,7 @@ static int etb_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file) struct etb_drvdata *drvdata = container_of(file->private_data, struct etb_drvdata, miscdev); - if (local_cmpxchg(&drvdata->reading, 0, 1)) + if (atomic_cmpxchg(&drvdata->reading, 0, 1)) return -EBUSY; dev_dbg(&drvdata->csdev->dev, "%s: successfully opened\n", __func__);
@@ -641,7 +641,7 @@ static int etb_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *file) { struct etb_drvdata *drvdata = container_of(file->private_data, struct etb_drvdata, miscdev); - local_set(&drvdata->reading, 0); + atomic_set(&drvdata->reading, 0); dev_dbg(&drvdata->csdev->dev, "%s: released\n", __func__); return 0;
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