[PATCH v18 04/13] scsi: ibmvfc: fix stale rc and IRQ mapping leak in ibmvfc_register_channel()

From: Dave Marquardt via B4 Relay

Date: Thu Nov 05 2026 - 12:30:23 EST


From: Dave Marquardt <davemarq@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

The default: case of the protocol switch in ibmvfc_register_channel()
jumps to irq_failed without setting rc, leaving a stale value from
h_reg_sub_crq() (0 or H_CLOSED) that the caller sees as success even
though the sub-CRQ was just freed. The mapping created by
irq_create_mapping() is also never disposed, leaving scrq->irq non-zero.

Set rc = -EINVAL in the default: case. Introduce an irq_mapping_failed:
label that calls irq_dispose_mapping() and clears scrq->irq before
falling through to irq_failed, and jump to it from both the default:
case and the request_irq() failure path, eliminating the duplicate
inline dispose/clear in the latter.

Signed-off-by: Dave Marquardt <davemarq@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/scsi/ibmvscsi/ibmvfc-core.c | 10 ++++++----
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/ibmvscsi/ibmvfc-core.c b/drivers/scsi/ibmvscsi/ibmvfc-core.c
index 65829c3d2eea..77c685f6f959 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/ibmvscsi/ibmvfc-core.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/ibmvscsi/ibmvfc-core.c
@@ -6429,16 +6429,15 @@ static int ibmvfc_register_channel(struct ibmvfc_host *vhost,
default:
dev_err(dev, "Unknown channel protocol (%d)\n",
channels->protocol);
- goto irq_failed;
+ rc = -EINVAL;
+ goto irq_mapping_failed;
}

rc = request_irq(scrq->irq, scrq->handler, 0, scrq->name, scrq);

if (rc) {
dev_err(dev, "Couldn't register sub-crq[%d] irq\n", index);
- irq_dispose_mapping(scrq->irq);
- scrq->irq = 0;
- goto irq_failed;
+ goto irq_mapping_failed;
}

scrq->hwq_id = index;
@@ -6446,6 +6445,9 @@ static int ibmvfc_register_channel(struct ibmvfc_host *vhost,
LEAVE;
return 0;

+irq_mapping_failed:
+ irq_dispose_mapping(scrq->irq);
+ scrq->irq = 0;
irq_failed:
do {
hcall_rc = plpar_hcall_norets(H_FREE_SUB_CRQ, vdev->unit_address, scrq->cookie);

--
2.56.0