[PATCH] optee: ffa: fix sleep in atomic context

From: Jens Wiklander
Date: Mon Jun 02 2025 - 08:05:19 EST


The OP-TEE driver registers the function notif_callback() for FF-A
notifications. However, this function is called in an atomic context
leading to errors like this when processing asynchronous notifications:

| BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/mutex.c:258
| in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 1, non_block: 0, pid: 9, name: kworker/0:0
| preempt_count: 1, expected: 0
| RCU nest depth: 0, expected: 0
| CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 9 Comm: kworker/0:0 Not tainted 6.14.0-00019-g657536ebe0aa #13
| Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)
| Workqueue: ffa_pcpu_irq_notification notif_pcpu_irq_work_fn
| Call trace:
| show_stack+0x18/0x24 (C)
| dump_stack_lvl+0x78/0x90
| dump_stack+0x18/0x24
| __might_resched+0x114/0x170
| __might_sleep+0x48/0x98
| mutex_lock+0x24/0x80
| optee_get_msg_arg+0x7c/0x21c
| simple_call_with_arg+0x50/0xc0
| optee_do_bottom_half+0x14/0x20
| notif_callback+0x3c/0x48
| handle_notif_callbacks+0x9c/0xe0
| notif_get_and_handle+0x40/0x88
| generic_exec_single+0x80/0xc0
| smp_call_function_single+0xfc/0x1a0
| notif_pcpu_irq_work_fn+0x2c/0x38
| process_one_work+0x14c/0x2b4
| worker_thread+0x2e4/0x3e0
| kthread+0x13c/0x210
| ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20

Fix this by adding work queue to process the notification in a
non-atomic context.

Fixes: d0476a59de06 ("optee: ffa_abi: add asynchronous notifications")
Signed-off-by: Jens Wiklander <jens.wiklander@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/tee/optee/ffa_abi.c | 41 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
drivers/tee/optee/optee_private.h | 2 ++
2 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/tee/optee/ffa_abi.c b/drivers/tee/optee/ffa_abi.c
index f3af5666bb11..f9ef7d94cebd 100644
--- a/drivers/tee/optee/ffa_abi.c
+++ b/drivers/tee/optee/ffa_abi.c
@@ -728,12 +728,21 @@ static bool optee_ffa_exchange_caps(struct ffa_device *ffa_dev,
return true;
}

+static void notif_work_fn(struct work_struct *work)
+{
+ struct optee_ffa *optee_ffa = container_of(work, struct optee_ffa,
+ notif_work);
+ struct optee *optee = container_of(optee_ffa, struct optee, ffa);
+
+ optee_do_bottom_half(optee->ctx);
+}
+
static void notif_callback(int notify_id, void *cb_data)
{
struct optee *optee = cb_data;

if (notify_id == optee->ffa.bottom_half_value)
- optee_do_bottom_half(optee->ctx);
+ queue_work(optee->ffa.notif_wq, &optee->ffa.notif_work);
else
optee_notif_send(optee, notify_id);
}
@@ -817,9 +826,11 @@ static void optee_ffa_remove(struct ffa_device *ffa_dev)
struct optee *optee = ffa_dev_get_drvdata(ffa_dev);
u32 bottom_half_id = optee->ffa.bottom_half_value;

- if (bottom_half_id != U32_MAX)
+ if (bottom_half_id != U32_MAX) {
ffa_dev->ops->notifier_ops->notify_relinquish(ffa_dev,
bottom_half_id);
+ destroy_workqueue(optee->ffa.notif_wq);
+ }
optee_remove_common(optee);

mutex_destroy(&optee->ffa.mutex);
@@ -835,6 +846,13 @@ static int optee_ffa_async_notif_init(struct ffa_device *ffa_dev,
u32 notif_id = 0;
int rc;

+ INIT_WORK(&optee->ffa.notif_work, notif_work_fn);
+ optee->ffa.notif_wq = create_workqueue("optee_notification");
+ if (!optee->ffa.notif_wq) {
+ rc = -EINVAL;
+ goto err;
+ }
+
while (true) {
rc = ffa_dev->ops->notifier_ops->notify_request(ffa_dev,
is_per_vcpu,
@@ -851,19 +869,24 @@ static int optee_ffa_async_notif_init(struct ffa_device *ffa_dev,
* notifications in that case.
*/
if (rc != -EACCES)
- return rc;
+ goto err_wq;
notif_id++;
if (notif_id >= OPTEE_FFA_MAX_ASYNC_NOTIF_VALUE)
- return rc;
+ goto err_wq;
}
optee->ffa.bottom_half_value = notif_id;

rc = enable_async_notif(optee);
- if (rc < 0) {
- ffa_dev->ops->notifier_ops->notify_relinquish(ffa_dev,
- notif_id);
- optee->ffa.bottom_half_value = U32_MAX;
- }
+ if (rc < 0)
+ goto err_rel;
+
+ return 0;
+err_rel:
+ ffa_dev->ops->notifier_ops->notify_relinquish(ffa_dev, notif_id);
+err_wq:
+ destroy_workqueue(optee->ffa.notif_wq);
+err:
+ optee->ffa.bottom_half_value = U32_MAX;

return rc;
}
diff --git a/drivers/tee/optee/optee_private.h b/drivers/tee/optee/optee_private.h
index dc0f355ef72a..9526087f0e68 100644
--- a/drivers/tee/optee/optee_private.h
+++ b/drivers/tee/optee/optee_private.h
@@ -165,6 +165,8 @@ struct optee_ffa {
/* Serializes access to @global_ids */
struct mutex mutex;
struct rhashtable global_ids;
+ struct workqueue_struct *notif_wq;
+ struct work_struct notif_work;
};

struct optee;
--
2.43.0