Re: [PATCH v2 6/6] arm64: dts: qcom: msm8996: Remove FastRPC compute CB9 entry

From: Konrad Dybcio

Date: Mon Oct 26 2026 - 08:12:33 EST


On 10/23/26 11:03 AM, Abhinav Parihar wrote:
> Remove the compute-cb@9 nodes from msm8996 device tree to
> prevent clients from selecting a secure context bank for normal FastRPC
> workloads.
>
> Secure use case support is not currently implemented upstream.
>
> Fixes: 1b80b83f893d ("arm64: dts: qcom: msm8996: add fastrpc nodes")
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Abhinav Parihar <abhinav.parihar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/msm8996.dtsi | 6 ------
> 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/msm8996.dtsi b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/msm8996.dtsi
> index 818e5660df91..51ef306c1ce0 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/msm8996.dtsi
> +++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/msm8996.dtsi
> @@ -3701,12 +3701,6 @@ cb@8 {
> iommus = <&lpass_q6_smmu 8>;
> };
>
> - cb@9 {
> - compatible = "qcom,fastrpc-compute-cb";
> - reg = <9>;
> - iommus = <&lpass_q6_smmu 9>;
> - };

The docs I managed to find suggest the protected SIDs are
2 and 3 on msm8996

Konrad