Re: [PATCH 1/2] optee: fix tee out of memory failure seen during kexec reboot

From: Jens Wiklander
Date: Tue Feb 23 2021 - 03:20:59 EST


On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 06:15:08PM +0530, Allen Pais wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 17 Feb 2021 14:57:12 +0530, Allen Pais wrote:
> > > - /*
> > > - * Ask OP-TEE to free all cached shared memory objects to decrease
> > > - * reference counters and also avoid wild pointers in secure world
> > > - * into the old shared memory range.
> > > - */
> > > - optee_disable_shm_cache(optee);
> > > + if (shutdown) {
> > > + optee_disable_shm_cache(optee);
> > > + } else {
> > > + /*
> > > + * Ask OP-TEE to free all cached shared memory
> > > + * objects to decrease reference counters and
> > > + * also avoid wild pointers in secure world
> > > + * into the old shared memory range.
> > > + */
> > > + optee_disable_shm_cache(optee);
> > Calling optee_disable_shm_cache() in both if and else. It could be
> > put in front of if().
> >
>
> Ideally, I could just use optee_remove for shutdown() too.
> But it would not look good. Hence this approach.

What is the problem with using optee_remove() for shutdown()?

Cheers,
Jens