[PATCH] mailbox: qcom-ipcc: Guard against NULL con_priv in send_data()

From: Anup Vishwakarma

Date: Wed Sep 16 2026 - 06:06:03 EST


qcom_ipcc_mbox_shutdown() clears chan->con_priv with no locking.
qcom_ipcc_mbox_send_data() dereferences the same field without
checking for NULL first, so a send racing a concurrent shutdown can
crash:

mchan = chan->con_priv;
...
hwirq = qcom_ipcc_get_hwirq(mchan->client_id, mchan->signal_id);

Add the same NULL guard mbox_send_message() already uses for
chan->cl, and bail out before dereferencing a cleared con_priv.

To close the remaining race where send_data() reads con_priv a moment
before a concurrent shutdown clears it, acquire the spinlock in
qcom_ipcc_mbox_shutdown() using the modern guard(spinlock_irqsave)
primitive before setting con_priv to NULL.

Fixes: d6fbfdbc1274 ("mailbox: qcom-ipcc: Fix IPCC mbox channel exhaustion")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Anup Vishwakarma <anup.vishwakarma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/mailbox/qcom-ipcc.c | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/mailbox/qcom-ipcc.c b/drivers/mailbox/qcom-ipcc.c
index 185b63f724d4..387aa72aeedf 100644
--- a/drivers/mailbox/qcom-ipcc.c
+++ b/drivers/mailbox/qcom-ipcc.c
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
#include <linux/mailbox_controller.h>
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/platform_device.h>
+#include <linux/spinlock.h>

#include <dt-bindings/mailbox/qcom-ipcc.h>

@@ -151,6 +152,9 @@ static int qcom_ipcc_mbox_send_data(struct mbox_chan *chan, void *data)
struct qcom_ipcc_chan_info *mchan = chan->con_priv;
u32 hwirq;

+ if (!mchan)
+ return -EINVAL;
+
hwirq = qcom_ipcc_get_hwirq(mchan->client_id, mchan->signal_id);
writel(hwirq, ipcc->base + IPCC_REG_SEND_ID);

@@ -159,6 +163,8 @@ static int qcom_ipcc_mbox_send_data(struct mbox_chan *chan, void *data)

static void qcom_ipcc_mbox_shutdown(struct mbox_chan *chan)
{
+ guard(spinlock_irqsave)(&chan->lock);
+
chan->con_priv = NULL;
}


---
base-commit: e6e35979777d646fe3c7c94dca7dd32fb25d45f4
change-id: 20260916-b4-ipcc_send_data_null_check_upstream-072b8856680f

Best regards,
--
Anup Vishwakarma <anup.vishwakarma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>