kernel/linux.git/drivers/firmware, branch v6.19.11

firmware: arm_scmi: Fix NULL dereference on notify error path

2026-03-25T10:13:24+00:00

[ Upstream commit 555317d6100164748f7d09f80142739bd29f0cda ] Since commit b5daf93b809d1 ("firmware: arm_scmi: Avoid notifier registration for unsupported events") the call chains leading to the helper __scmi_event_handler_get_ops expect an ERR_PTR to be returned on failure to get an handler for the requested event key, while the current helper can still return a NULL when no handler could be found or created. Fix by forcing an ERR_PTR return value when the handler reference is NULL. Fixes: b5daf93b809d1 ("firmware: arm_scmi: Avoid notifier registration for unsupported events") Signed-off-by: Cristian Marussi Reviewed-by: Dan Carpenter Message-Id: <20260305131011.541444-1-cristian.marussi@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Sudeep Holla Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

firmware: arm_scpi: Fix device_node reference leak in probe path

2026-03-25T10:13:24+00:00

[ Upstream commit 879c001afbac3df94160334fe5117c0c83b2cf48 ] A device_node reference obtained from the device tree is not released on all error paths in the arm_scpi probe path. Specifically, a node returned by of_parse_phandle() could be leaked when the probe failed after the node was acquired. The probe function returns early and the shmem reference is not released. Use __free(device_node) scope-based cleanup to automatically release the reference when the variable goes out of scope. Fixes: ed7ecb883901 ("firmware: arm_scpi: Add compatibility checks for shmem node") Signed-off-by: Felix Gu Message-Id: <20260121-arm_scpi_2-v2-1-702d7fa84acb@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Sudeep Holla Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

firmware: arm_ffa: Remove vm_id argument in ffa_rxtx_unmap()

2026-03-25T10:13:24+00:00

[ Upstream commit a4e8473b775160f3ce978f621cf8dea2c7250433 ] According to the FF-A specification (DEN0077, v1.1, §13.7), when FFA_RXTX_UNMAP is invoked from any instance other than non-secure physical, the w1 register must be zero (MBZ). If a non-zero value is supplied in this context, the SPMC must return FFA_INVALID_PARAMETER. The Arm FF-A driver operates exclusively as a guest or non-secure physical instance where the partition ID is always zero and is not invoked from a hypervisor context where w1 carries a VM ID. In this execution model, the partition ID observed by the driver is always zero, and passing a VM ID is unnecessary and potentially invalid. Remove the vm_id parameter from ffa_rxtx_unmap() and ensure that the SMC call is issued with w1 implicitly zeroed, as required by the specification. This prevents invalid parameter errors and aligns the implementation with the defined FF-A ABI behavior. Fixes: 3bbfe9871005 ("firmware: arm_ffa: Add initial Arm FFA driver support") Signed-off-by: Yeoreum Yun Message-Id: <20260304120953.847671-1-yeoreum.yun@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Sudeep Holla Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

firmware: stratix10-svc: Add Multi SVC clients support

2026-03-25T10:13:18+00:00

[ Upstream commit 22fd7f7fed2ae3702f90d1985c326354e86b9c75 ] In the current implementation, SVC client drivers such as socfpga-hwmon, intel_fcs, stratix10-soc, stratix10-rsu each send an SMC command that triggers a single thread in the stratix10-svc driver. Upon receiving a callback, the initiating client driver sends a stratix10-svc-done signal, terminating the thread without waiting for other pending SMC commands to complete. This leads to a timeout issue in the firmware SVC mailbox service when multiple client drivers send SMC commands concurrently. To resolve this issue, a dedicated thread is now created per channel. The stratix10-svc driver will support up to the number of channels defined by SVC_NUM_CHANNEL. Thread synchronization is handled using a mutex to prevent simultaneous issuance of SMC commands by multiple threads. SVC_NUM_DATA_IN_FIFO is reduced from 32 to 8, since each channel now has its own dedicated FIFO and the SDM processes commands one at a time. 8 entries per channel is sufficient while keeping the total aggregate capacity the same (4 channels x 8 = 32 entries). Additionally, a thread task is now validated before invoking kthread_stop when the user aborts, ensuring safe termination. Timeout values have also been adjusted to accommodate the increased load from concurrent client driver activity. Fixes: 7ca5ce896524 ("firmware: add Intel Stratix10 service layer driver") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ang Tien Sung Signed-off-by: Fong, Yan Kei Signed-off-by: Muhammad Amirul Asyraf Mohamad Jamian Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260305093151.2678-1-muhammad.amirul.asyraf.mohamad.jamian@altera.com Signed-off-by: Dinh Nguyen Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

firmware: stratix10-svc: Delete some stray tabs

2026-03-25T10:13:18+00:00

[ Upstream commit 9e51d1da5b245c9bf97fc49b06cca7e901c0fe94 ] These lines are indented one tab too far. Delete the extra tabs for readability. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter Signed-off-by: Dinh Nguyen Stable-dep-of: 22fd7f7fed2a ("firmware: stratix10-svc: Add Multi SVC clients support") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

firmware: stratix10-rsu: Fix NULL pointer dereference when RSU is disabled

2026-03-19T15:15:10+00:00

commit c45f7263100cece247dd3fa5fe277bd97fdb5687 upstream. When the Remote System Update (RSU) isn't enabled in the First Stage Boot Loader (FSBL), the driver encounters a NULL pointer dereference when excute svc_normal_to_secure_thread() thread, resulting in a kernel panic: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000008 Mem abort info: ... Data abort info: ... [0000000000000008] user address but active_mm is swapper Internal error: Oops: 0000000096000004 [#1] SMP Modules linked in: CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 79 Comm: svc_smc_hvc_thr Not tainted 6.19.0-rc8-yocto-standard+ #59 PREEMPT Hardware name: SoCFPGA Stratix 10 SoCDK (DT) pstate: 60000005 (nZCv daif -PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--) pc : svc_normal_to_secure_thread+0x38c/0x990 lr : svc_normal_to_secure_thread+0x144/0x990 ... Call trace: svc_normal_to_secure_thread+0x38c/0x990 (P) kthread+0x150/0x210 ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20 Code: 97cfc113 f9400260 aa1403e1 f9400400 (f9400402) ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]--- The issue occurs because rsu_send_async_msg() fails when RSU is not enabled in firmware, causing the channel to be freed via stratix10_svc_free_channel(). However, the probe function continues execution and registers svc_normal_to_secure_thread(), which subsequently attempts to access the already-freed channel, triggering the NULL pointer dereference. Fix this by properly cleaning up the async client and returning early on failure, preventing the thread from being used with an invalid channel. Fixes: 15847537b623 ("firmware: stratix10-rsu: Migrate RSU driver to use stratix10 asynchronous framework.") Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Liwei Song Signed-off-by: Dinh Nguyen Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

firmware: cs_dsp: Fix fragmentation regression in firmware download

2026-03-19T15:14:51+00:00

[ Upstream commit facfdef64d11c08e6f1e69d02a0b87cb74cee0f5 ] Use vmalloc() instead of kmalloc(..., GFP_DMA) to alloc the temporary buffer for firmware download blobs. This avoids the problem that a heavily fragmented system cannot allocate enough physically-contiguous memory for a large blob. The redundant alloc buffer mechanism was removed in commit 900baa6e7bb0 ("firmware: cs_dsp: Remove redundant download buffer allocator"). While doing that I was overly focused on the possibility of the underlying bus requiring DMA-safe memory. So I used GFP_DMA kmalloc()s. I failed to notice that the code I was removing used vmalloc(). This creates a regression. Way back in 2014 the problem of fragmentation with kmalloc()s was fixed by commit cdcd7f728753 ("ASoC: wm_adsp: Use vmalloc to allocate firmware download buffer"). Although we don't need physically-contiguous memory, we don't know if the bus needs some particular alignment of the buffers. Since the change in 2014, the firmware download has always used whatever alignment vmalloc() returns. To avoid introducing a new problem, the temporary buffer is still used, to keep the same alignment of pointers passed to regmap_raw_write(). Signed-off-by: Richard Fitzgerald Fixes: 900baa6e7bb0 ("firmware: cs_dsp: Remove redundant download buffer allocator") Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260304141250.1578597-1-rf@opensource.cirrus.com Signed-off-by: Mark Brown Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

x86/efi: defer freeing of boot services memory

2026-03-12T11:09:30+00:00

commit a4b0bf6a40f3c107c67a24fbc614510ef5719980 upstream. efi_free_boot_services() frees memory occupied by EFI_BOOT_SERVICES_CODE and EFI_BOOT_SERVICES_DATA using memblock_free_late(). There are two issue with that: memblock_free_late() should be used for memory allocated with memblock_alloc() while the memory reserved with memblock_reserve() should be freed with free_reserved_area(). More acutely, with CONFIG_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT=y efi_free_boot_services() is called before deferred initialization of the memory map is complete. Benjamin Herrenschmidt reports that this causes a leak of ~140MB of RAM on EC2 t3a.nano instances which only have 512MB or RAM. If the freed memory resides in the areas that memory map for them is still uninitialized, they won't be actually freed because memblock_free_late() calls memblock_free_pages() and the latter skips uninitialized pages. Using free_reserved_area() at this point is also problematic because __free_page() accesses the buddy of the freed page and that again might end up in uninitialized part of the memory map. Delaying the entire efi_free_boot_services() could be problematic because in addition to freeing boot services memory it updates efi.memmap without any synchronization and that's undesirable late in boot when there is concurrency. More robust approach is to only defer freeing of the EFI boot services memory. Split efi_free_boot_services() in two. First efi_unmap_boot_services() collects ranges that should be freed into an array then efi_free_boot_services() later frees them after deferred init is complete. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/ec2aaef14783869b3be6e3c253b2dcbf67dbc12a.camel@kernel.crashing.org Fixes: 916f676f8dc0 ("x86, efi: Retain boot service code until after switching to virtual mode") Cc: Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) Reviewed-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

firmware: arm_ffa: Unmap Rx/Tx buffers on init failure

2026-03-04T12:19:46+00:00

[ Upstream commit 9fda364cb78c8b9e1abe4029f877300c94655742 ] ffa_init() maps the Rx/Tx buffers via ffa_rxtx_map() but on the partition setup failure path it never unmaps them. Add the missing ffa_rxtx_unmap() call in the error path so that the Rx/Tx buffers are properly released before freeing the backing pages. Signed-off-by: Haoxiang Li Message-Id: <20251210031656.56194-1-lihaoxiang@isrc.iscas.ac.cn> Signed-off-by: Sudeep Holla Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

EFI/CPER: don't go past the ARM processor CPER record buffer

2026-03-04T12:19:37+00:00

[ Upstream commit eae21beecb95a3b69ee5c38a659f774e171d730e ] There's a logic inside GHES/CPER to detect if the section_length is too small, but it doesn't detect if it is too big. Currently, if the firmware receives an ARM processor CPER record stating that a section length is big, kernel will blindly trust section_length, producing a very long dump. For instance, a 67 bytes record with ERR_INFO_NUM set 46198 and section length set to 854918320 would dump a lot of data going a way past the firmware memory-mapped area. Fix it by adding a logic to prevent it to go past the buffer if ERR_INFO_NUM is too big, making it report instead: [Hardware Error]: Hardware error from APEI Generic Hardware Error Source: 1 [Hardware Error]: event severity: recoverable [Hardware Error]: Error 0, type: recoverable [Hardware Error]: section_type: ARM processor error [Hardware Error]: MIDR: 0xff304b2f8476870a [Hardware Error]: section length: 854918320, CPER size: 67 [Hardware Error]: section length is too big [Hardware Error]: firmware-generated error record is incorrect [Hardware Error]: ERR_INFO_NUM is 46198 Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel Reviewed-by: Hanjun Guo [ rjw: Subject and changelog tweaks ] Link: https://patch.msgid.link/41cd9f6b3ace3cdff7a5e864890849e4b1c58b63.1767871950.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin