[PATCH v3 7/8] hwmon: (pmbus/adm1266) serialize NVMEM blackbox read with pmbus_lock
From: Abdurrahman Hussain
Date: Mon May 18 2026 - 20:55:20 EST
adm1266_nvmem_read() is the reg_read callback the NVMEM core invokes
when userspace reads /sys/bus/nvmem/devices/.../nvmem on this chip.
On the first byte of every read it does a memset of data->dev_mem,
walks the device blackbox through adm1266_nvmem_read_blackbox()
(which issues a chain of PMBus block transactions), and then memcpys
the refreshed buffer out to userspace. None of that runs under
pmbus_lock today.
Two consequences:
- The PMBus traffic the refresh issues is not serialised against
pmbus_core's own multi-step PAGE+register sequences. A paged
hwmon attribute read from another thread can land between a
PAGE write and the paged read in either direction and corrupt
one side's view of the device state machine.
- The NVMEM core does not serialise concurrent reg_read calls, so
two userspace readers racing at offset 0 can interleave the
memset of data->dev_mem with another reader's
adm1266_nvmem_read_blackbox() refill or memcpy out, returning
torn data to userspace.
Take pmbus_lock at the top of adm1266_nvmem_read() via the
scope-based guard(). Patch 5 of this series moves
adm1266_config_nvmem() past pmbus_do_probe() so the lock is
guaranteed to be live before the callback is reachable from
userspace.
Fixes: 15609d189302 ("hwmon: (pmbus/adm1266) read blackbox")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Abdurrahman Hussain <abdurrahman@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/hwmon/pmbus/adm1266.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/pmbus/adm1266.c b/drivers/hwmon/pmbus/adm1266.c
index a80fb2ea73bd..051f4f188ec5 100644
--- a/drivers/hwmon/pmbus/adm1266.c
+++ b/drivers/hwmon/pmbus/adm1266.c
@@ -394,6 +394,8 @@ static int adm1266_nvmem_read(void *priv, unsigned int offset, void *val, size_t
if (offset + bytes > data->nvmem_config.size)
return -EINVAL;
+ guard(pmbus_lock)(data->client);
+
if (offset == 0) {
memset(data->dev_mem, 0, data->nvmem_config.size);
--
2.53.0