[PATCH v2 2/3] firmware: qcom_scm: handle empty PAS resource table

From: Mukesh Ojha

Date: Mon Sep 21 2026 - 15:57:20 EST


The PAS resource-table query may successfully return a zero-sized
table. kmemdup() with a zero length returns ZERO_SIZE_PTR,
which is stored in rproc->table_ptr. The remoteproc core then
dereferences this invalid pointer while processing resources.

Treat a zero-sized result as an absent resource table and return
NULL after releasing the TrustZone memory buffer. This allows the
remoteproc core to skip resource-table processing.

Fixes: 8b9d2050cfa0 ("firmware: qcom_scm: Add qcom_scm_pas_get_rsc_table() to get resource table")
Signed-off-by: Mukesh Ojha <mukesh.ojha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Changes in v2:
- New change.

drivers/firmware/qcom/qcom_scm.c | 10 +++++++++-
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/firmware/qcom/qcom_scm.c b/drivers/firmware/qcom/qcom_scm.c
index df20773dd754..b5959f833dd7 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/qcom/qcom_scm.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/qcom/qcom_scm.c
@@ -823,6 +823,14 @@ static void *qcom_scm_pas_get_rsc_table(struct device *dev,
goto free_input_rt;
}

+ *output_rt_size = size;
+
+ /* A zero-sized table means that TrustZone has no resource table. */
+ if (!size) {
+ tbl_ptr = NULL;
+ goto free_output_rt;
+ }
+
tbl_ptr = kmemdup(output_rt_tzm, size, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!tbl_ptr) {
qcom_tzmem_free(output_rt_tzm);
@@ -830,7 +838,7 @@ static void *qcom_scm_pas_get_rsc_table(struct device *dev,
goto free_input_rt;
}

- *output_rt_size = size;
+free_output_rt:
qcom_tzmem_free(output_rt_tzm);

free_input_rt:
--
2.55.0