In the multi console driver, allowing to register the same console more
than once may result in an infinte loop when putc is called.
If, for example, a boot message is trying to be printed, but the
consoles in the loop in the linked list are runtime consoles, putc will
iterate forever looking for a console that can print boot messages (or
a NULL pointer that will never come).
This loop in the linked list can occur after restoring the system from a
system suspend. The boot console is registered during the cold boot in
BL31, but the runtime console is registered even in the warm boot path.
Consoles are always added to the start of the linked list when they are
registered, so this it what should happen if they were actually
different structures:
console_list -> NULL
console_list -> BOOT -> NULL
console_list -> RUNTIME -> BOOT -> NULL
console_list -> RUNTIME -> RUNTIME -> BOOT -> NULL
In practice, the two runtime consoles are the same one, so they create
this loop:
console_list -> RUNTIME -. X -> BOOT -> NULL
^ |
`----'
This patch adds an assertion to detect this problem. The assertion will
fail whenever the same structure tries to be registered while being on
the list.
In order to assert this, console_is_registered() has been implemented.
It returns 1 if the specified console is registered, 0 if not.
Change-Id: I922485e743775ca9bd1af9cbd491ddd360526a6d
Signed-off-by: Antonio Nino Diaz <antonio.ninodiaz@arm.com>
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