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Rafael J. Wysocki 237d6e1de0 ACPI: battery: Add synchronization between interface updates
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There is no synchronization between different code paths in the ACPI
battery driver that update its sysfs interface or its power supply
class device interface.  In some cases this results to functional
failures due to race conditions.

One example of this is when two ACPI notifications:

  - ACPI_BATTERY_NOTIFY_STATUS (0x80)
  - ACPI_BATTERY_NOTIFY_INFO   (0x81)

are triggered (by the platform firmware) in a row with a little delay
in between after removing and reinserting a laptop battery.  Both
notifications cause acpi_battery_update() to be called and if the delay
between them is sufficiently small, sysfs_add_battery() can be re-entered
before battery->bat is set which leads to a duplicate sysfs entry error:

 sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXSYBUS:00/PNP0C0A:00/power_supply/BAT1'
 CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 185 Comm: kworker/1:4 Kdump: loaded Not tainted 6.12.38+deb13-amd64 #1  Debian 6.12.38-1
 Hardware name: Gateway          NV44             /SJV40-MV        , BIOS V1.3121 04/08/2009
 Workqueue: kacpi_notify acpi_os_execute_deferred
 Call Trace:
  <TASK>
  dump_stack_lvl+0x5d/0x80
  sysfs_warn_dup.cold+0x17/0x23
  sysfs_create_dir_ns+0xce/0xe0
  kobject_add_internal+0xba/0x250
  kobject_add+0x96/0xc0
  ? get_device_parent+0xde/0x1e0
  device_add+0xe2/0x870
  __power_supply_register.part.0+0x20f/0x3f0
  ? wake_up_q+0x4e/0x90
  sysfs_add_battery+0xa4/0x1d0 [battery]
  acpi_battery_update+0x19e/0x290 [battery]
  acpi_battery_notify+0x50/0x120 [battery]
  acpi_ev_notify_dispatch+0x49/0x70
  acpi_os_execute_deferred+0x1a/0x30
  process_one_work+0x177/0x330
  worker_thread+0x251/0x390
  ? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10
  kthread+0xd2/0x100
  ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
  ret_from_fork+0x34/0x50
  ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
  ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
  </TASK>
 kobject: kobject_add_internal failed for BAT1 with -EEXIST, don't try to register things with the same name in the same directory.

There are also other scenarios in which analogous issues may occur.

Address this by using a common lock in all of the code paths leading
to updates of driver interfaces: ACPI Notify () handler, system resume
callback and post-resume notification, device addition and removal.

This new lock replaces sysfs_lock that has been used only in
sysfs_remove_battery() which now is going to be always called under
the new lock, so it doesn't need any internal locking any more.

Fixes: 1066625155 ("ACPI: battery: Install Notify() handler directly")
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-acpi/20250910142653.313360-1-luogf2025@163.com/
Reported-by: GuangFei Luo <luogf2025@163.com>
Tested-by: GuangFei Luo <luogf2025@163.com>
Cc: 6.6+ <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 6.6+
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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