Bug 2401482 (CVE-2022-50491)

Summary: CVE-2022-50491 kernel: coresight: cti: Fix hang in cti_disable_hw()
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A context violation bug was found in the Linux kernel's CoreSight CTI (Cross Trigger Interface) driver in the hardware enable/disable functions. These functions are called from atomic context but attempt runtime PM operations that can sleep when communicating with firmware. This causes "sleeping function called from invalid context" errors and system hangs when enabling CoreSight tracing, particularly on ARM Juno platforms, resulting in denial of service.
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-10-04 16:02:59 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

coresight: cti: Fix hang in cti_disable_hw()

cti_enable_hw() and cti_disable_hw() are called from an atomic context
so shouldn't use runtime PM because it can result in a sleep when
communicating with firmware.

Since commit 3c6656337852 ("Revert "firmware: arm_scmi: Add clock
management to the SCMI power domain""), this causes a hang on Juno when
running the Perf Coresight tests or running this command:

  perf record -e cs_etm//u -- ls

This was also missed until the revert commit because pm_runtime_put()
was called with the wrong device until commit 692c9a499b28 ("coresight:
cti: Correct the parameter for pm_runtime_put")

With lock and scheduler debugging enabled the following is output:

   coresight cti_sys0: cti_enable_hw -- dev:cti_sys0  parent: 20020000.cti
   BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at drivers/base/power/runtime.c:1151
   in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 128, non_block: 0, pid: 330, name: perf-exec
   preempt_count: 2, expected: 0
   RCU nest depth: 0, expected: 0
   INFO: lockdep is turned off.
   irq event stamp: 0
   hardirqs last  enabled at (0): [<0000000000000000>] 0x0
   hardirqs last disabled at (0): [<ffff80000822b394>] copy_process+0xa0c/0x1948
   softirqs last  enabled at (0): [<ffff80000822b394>] copy_process+0xa0c/0x1948
   softirqs last disabled at (0): [<0000000000000000>] 0x0
   CPU: 3 PID: 330 Comm: perf-exec Not tainted 6.0.0-00053-g042116d99298 #7
   Hardware name: ARM LTD ARM Juno Development Platform/ARM Juno Development Platform, BIOS EDK II Sep 13 2022
   Call trace:
    dump_backtrace+0x134/0x140
    show_stack+0x20/0x58
    dump_stack_lvl+0x8c/0xb8
    dump_stack+0x18/0x34
    __might_resched+0x180/0x228
    __might_sleep+0x50/0x88
    __pm_runtime_resume+0xac/0xb0
    cti_enable+0x44/0x120
    coresight_control_assoc_ectdev+0xc0/0x150
    coresight_enable_path+0xb4/0x288
    etm_event_start+0x138/0x170
    etm_event_add+0x48/0x70
    event_sched_in.isra.122+0xb4/0x280
    merge_sched_in+0x1fc/0x3d0
    visit_groups_merge.constprop.137+0x16c/0x4b0
    ctx_sched_in+0x114/0x1f0
    perf_event_sched_in+0x60/0x90
    ctx_resched+0x68/0xb0
    perf_event_exec+0x138/0x508
    begin_new_exec+0x52c/0xd40
    load_elf_binary+0x6b8/0x17d0
    bprm_execve+0x360/0x7f8
    do_execveat_common.isra.47+0x218/0x238
    __arm64_sys_execve+0x48/0x60
    invoke_syscall+0x4c/0x110
    el0_svc_common.constprop.4+0xfc/0x120
    do_el0_svc+0x34/0xc0
    el0_svc+0x40/0x98
    el0t_64_sync_handler+0x98/0xc0
    el0t_64_sync+0x170/0x174

Fix the issue by removing the runtime PM calls completely. They are not
needed here because it must have already been done when building the
path for a trace.

[ Fix build warnings ]