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firmware: qcom: scm: Fix missing read barrier in qcom_scm_is_available()
Commit 2e49551 ("firmware: qcom: scm: Fix __scm and waitq completion variable initialization") introduced a write barrier in probe function to store global '__scm' variable. It also claimed that it added a read barrier, because as we all known barriers are paired (see memory-barriers.txt: "Note that write barriers should normally be paired with read or address-dependency barriers"), however it did not really add it. The offending commit used READ_ONCE() to access '__scm' global which is not a barrier. The barrier is needed so the store to '__scm' will be properly visible. This is most likely not fatal in current driver design, because missing read barrier would mean qcom_scm_is_available() callers will access old value, NULL. Driver does not support unbinding and does not correctly handle probe failures, thus there is no risk of stale or old pointer in '__scm' variable. However for code correctness, readability and to be sure that we did not mess up something in this tricky topic of SMP barriers, add a read barrier for accessing '__scm'. Change also comment from useless/obvious what does barrier do, to what is expected: which other parts of the code are involved here. Fixes: 2e49551 ("firmware: qcom: scm: Fix __scm and waitq completion variable initialization") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241209-qcom-scm-missing-barriers-and-all-sort-of-srap-v2-1-9061013c8d92@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Bjorn Andersson <andersson@kernel.org>
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