s390/consoles: improve panic notifiers reliability

Currently many console drivers for s390 rely on panic/reboot notifiers
to invoke callbacks on these events. The panic() function disables local
IRQs, secondary CPUs and preemption, so callbacks invoked on panic are
effectively running in atomic context.

Happens that most of these console callbacks from s390 doesn't take the
proper care with regards to atomic context, like taking spinlocks that
might be taken in other function/CPU and hence will cause a lockup
situation.

The goal for this patch is to improve the notifiers reliability, acting
on 4 console drivers, as detailed below:

(1) con3215: changed a regular spinlock to the trylock alternative.

(2) con3270: also changed a regular spinlock to its trylock counterpart,
but here we also have another problem: raw3270_activate_view() takes a
different spinlock. So, we worked a helper to validate if this other lock
is safe to acquire, and if so, raw3270_activate_view() should be safe.

Notice though that there is a functional change here: it's now possible
to continue the notifier code [reaching con3270_wait_write() and
con3270_rebuild_update()] without executing raw3270_activate_view().

(3) sclp: a global lock is used heavily in the functions called from
the notifier, so we added a check here - if the lock is taken already,
we just bail-out, preventing the lockup.

(4) sclp_vt220: same as (3), a lock validation was added to prevent the
potential lockup problem.

Besides (1)-(4), we also removed useless void functions, adding the
code called from the notifier inside its own body, and changed the
priority of such notifiers to execute late, since they are "heavyweight"
for the panic environment, so we aim to reduce risks here.
Changed return values to NOTIFY_DONE as well, the standard one.

Signed-off-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli@igalia.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220427224924.592546-14-gpiccoli@igalia.com
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/s390/char/sclp_con.c b/drivers/s390/char/sclp_con.c
index fe5ee2646fcf..e5d947c763ea 100644
--- a/drivers/s390/char/sclp_con.c
+++ b/drivers/s390/char/sclp_con.c
@@ -220,30 +220,34 @@ sclp_console_device(struct console *c, int *index)
 }
 
 /*
- * Make sure that all buffers will be flushed to the SCLP.
+ * This panic/reboot notifier makes sure that all buffers
+ * will be flushed to the SCLP.
  */
-static void
-sclp_console_flush(void)
+static int sclp_console_notify(struct notifier_block *self,
+			       unsigned long event, void *data)
 {
+	/*
+	 * Perform the lock check before effectively getting the
+	 * lock on sclp_conbuf_emit() / sclp_console_sync_queue()
+	 * to prevent potential lockups in atomic context.
+	 */
+	if (spin_is_locked(&sclp_con_lock))
+		return NOTIFY_DONE;
+
 	sclp_conbuf_emit();
 	sclp_console_sync_queue();
-}
 
-static int sclp_console_notify(struct notifier_block *self,
-			       unsigned long event, void *data)
-{
-	sclp_console_flush();
-	return NOTIFY_OK;
+	return NOTIFY_DONE;
 }
 
 static struct notifier_block on_panic_nb = {
 	.notifier_call = sclp_console_notify,
-	.priority = 1,
+	.priority = INT_MIN + 1, /* run the callback late */
 };
 
 static struct notifier_block on_reboot_nb = {
 	.notifier_call = sclp_console_notify,
-	.priority = 1,
+	.priority = INT_MIN + 1, /* run the callback late */
 };
 
 /*