[RFC PATCH] cxl: Fix premature commit_end increment on decoder commit failure

From: Yuxiong Wang

Date: Tue Jan 27 2026 - 03:49:16 EST


In cxl_decoder_commit(), commit_end is incremented before verifying whether the
commit succeeded, and the CXL_DECODER_F_ENABLE bit in cxld->flags is only set
after a successful commit. As a result, if the commit fails, commit_end has been
incremented and cxld->reset() has no effect since the flag is not set, so commit_end
remains incorrectly incremented. The inconsistency between commit_end and
CXL_DECODER_F_ENABLE causes failure during subsequent either commit or reset
operations.

Fix this by incrementing commit_end only after confirming the commit succeeded.
Since cxld_await_commit() clears the decoder commit bit on failure, no additional
reset is required. Remove the ineffective cxld->reset() call in this case.

Fixes: 176baef ("cxl/hdm: Commit decoder state to hardware")
Signed-off-by: Yuxiong Wang <yuxiong.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/cxl/core/hdm.c | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/cxl/core/hdm.c b/drivers/cxl/core/hdm.c
index eb5a3a7640c6..912f648a6b7a 100644
--- a/drivers/cxl/core/hdm.c
+++ b/drivers/cxl/core/hdm.c
@@ -844,14 +844,13 @@ static int cxl_decoder_commit(struct cxl_decoder *cxld)
scoped_guard(rwsem_read, &cxl_rwsem.dpa)
setup_hw_decoder(cxld, hdm);

- port->commit_end++;
rc = cxld_await_commit(hdm, cxld->id);
if (rc) {
dev_dbg(&port->dev, "%s: error %d committing decoder\n",
dev_name(&cxld->dev), rc);
- cxld->reset(cxld);
return rc;
}
+ port->commit_end++;
cxld->flags |= CXL_DECODER_F_ENABLE;

return 0;
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2.50.1 (Apple Git-155)