[PATCHv2] firmware: stratix10-rsu: Fix NULL deref on rsu_send_msg() timeout in probe

From: Dinh Nguyen

Date: Tue May 26 2026 - 10:50:00 EST


rsu_send_msg() can return -ETIMEDOUT when
wait_for_completion_interruptible_timeout() fires while the SMC call is still
pending. In stratix10_rsu_probe(), the error paths for COMMAND_RSU_DCMF_VERSION,
COMMAND_RSU_DCMF_STATUS, COMMAND_RSU_MAX_RETRY and COMMAND_RSU_GET_SPT_TABLE
call stratix10_svc_free_channel() - which sets chan->scl to NULL - but then
fall through and queue the next request on the same channel. The next svc
kthread that runs will dereference pdata->chan->scl in its receive callback
path, triggering a NULL pointer dereference identical to the one fixed by
commit c45f7263100c ("firmware: stratix10-rsu: Fix NULL pointer dereference
when RSU is disabled") for the COMMAND_RSU_STATUS path.

Apply the same cleanup pattern to the remaining failure paths: remove the
async client, free the channel, and return early so no further messages are
queued on a channel whose scl has been cleared.

While at it, clean up stratix10_rsu_probe() in two ways without changing
behavior:

- Drop redundant zero-initialization of fields already cleared by
devm_kzalloc(): client.receive_cb, status.* and spt0/1_address
(INVALID_SPT_ADDRESS is 0x0).

- Replace five identical 3-line error-cleanup blocks
(stratix10_svc_remove_async_client() + stratix10_svc_free_channel() +
return ret) with goto labels (remove_async_client, free_channel),
matching the standard kernel resource-unwinding pattern and making it
easier to extend the probe sequence without forgetting matching
cleanup.

Also move init_completion() next to mutex_init() so sync-primitive
initialization is grouped before anything that could trigger a
callback.

Fixes: 15847537b623 ("firmware: stratix10-rsu: Migrate RSU driver to use stratix10 asynchronous framework.")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-4.7-opus-high Cursor
Signed-off-by: Dinh Nguyen <dinguyen@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/firmware/stratix10-rsu.c | 45 ++++++++++++++------------------
1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/firmware/stratix10-rsu.c b/drivers/firmware/stratix10-rsu.c
index e1912108a0fee..2a7a0f7743893 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/stratix10-rsu.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/stratix10-rsu.c
@@ -723,15 +723,9 @@ static int stratix10_rsu_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
return -ENOMEM;

priv->client.dev = dev;
- priv->client.receive_cb = NULL;
priv->client.priv = priv;
- priv->status.current_image = 0;
- priv->status.fail_image = 0;
- priv->status.error_location = 0;
- priv->status.error_details = 0;
- priv->status.version = 0;
- priv->status.state = 0;
priv->retry_counter = INVALID_RETRY_COUNTER;
+ priv->max_retry = INVALID_RETRY_COUNTER;
priv->dcmf_version.dcmf0 = INVALID_DCMF_VERSION;
priv->dcmf_version.dcmf1 = INVALID_DCMF_VERSION;
priv->dcmf_version.dcmf2 = INVALID_DCMF_VERSION;
@@ -740,11 +734,11 @@ static int stratix10_rsu_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
priv->dcmf_status.dcmf1 = INVALID_DCMF_STATUS;
priv->dcmf_status.dcmf2 = INVALID_DCMF_STATUS;
priv->dcmf_status.dcmf3 = INVALID_DCMF_STATUS;
- priv->max_retry = INVALID_RETRY_COUNTER;
- priv->spt0_address = INVALID_SPT_ADDRESS;
- priv->spt1_address = INVALID_SPT_ADDRESS;
+ /* spt0/1_address and status fields default to 0 from kzalloc */

mutex_init(&priv->lock);
+ init_completion(&priv->completion);
+
priv->chan = stratix10_svc_request_channel_byname(&priv->client,
SVC_CLIENT_RSU);
if (IS_ERR(priv->chan)) {
@@ -756,11 +750,9 @@ static int stratix10_rsu_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
ret = stratix10_svc_add_async_client(priv->chan, false);
if (ret) {
dev_err(dev, "failed to add async client\n");
- stratix10_svc_free_channel(priv->chan);
- return ret;
+ goto free_channel;
}

- init_completion(&priv->completion);
platform_set_drvdata(pdev, priv);

/* get the initial state from firmware */
@@ -768,41 +760,44 @@ static int stratix10_rsu_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
rsu_async_status_callback);
if (ret) {
dev_err(dev, "Error, getting RSU status %i\n", ret);
- stratix10_svc_remove_async_client(priv->chan);
- stratix10_svc_free_channel(priv->chan);
- return ret;
+ goto remove_async_client;
}

/* get DCMF version from firmware */
- ret = rsu_send_msg(priv, COMMAND_RSU_DCMF_VERSION,
- 0, rsu_dcmf_version_callback);
+ ret = rsu_send_msg(priv, COMMAND_RSU_DCMF_VERSION, 0,
+ rsu_dcmf_version_callback);
if (ret) {
dev_err(dev, "Error, getting DCMF version %i\n", ret);
- stratix10_svc_free_channel(priv->chan);
+ goto remove_async_client;
}

- ret = rsu_send_msg(priv, COMMAND_RSU_DCMF_STATUS,
- 0, rsu_dcmf_status_callback);
+ ret = rsu_send_msg(priv, COMMAND_RSU_DCMF_STATUS, 0,
+ rsu_dcmf_status_callback);
if (ret) {
dev_err(dev, "Error, getting DCMF status %i\n", ret);
- stratix10_svc_free_channel(priv->chan);
+ goto remove_async_client;
}

ret = rsu_send_msg(priv, COMMAND_RSU_MAX_RETRY, 0,
rsu_max_retry_callback);
if (ret) {
dev_err(dev, "Error, getting RSU max retry %i\n", ret);
- stratix10_svc_free_channel(priv->chan);
+ goto remove_async_client;
}

-
ret = rsu_send_async_msg(dev, priv, COMMAND_RSU_GET_SPT_TABLE, 0,
rsu_async_get_spt_table_callback);
if (ret) {
dev_err(dev, "Error, getting SPT table %i\n", ret);
- stratix10_svc_free_channel(priv->chan);
+ goto remove_async_client;
}

+ return 0;
+
+remove_async_client:
+ stratix10_svc_remove_async_client(priv->chan);
+free_channel:
+ stratix10_svc_free_channel(priv->chan);
return ret;
}

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