Re: [PATCH v2] misc: fastrpc: Drop unhandled DSP PD exit notification

[Srinivas Kandagatla]

On 7/28/26 8:38 AM, Shawn Guo wrote:
> Newer DSP firmware implements a PD (Protection Domain) notification
> framework that sends PD state notifications upon request. The PD exit
> notification is unconditionally sent by the DSP with a fixed sentinel
> 0xABCDABCD in the context field.
> 
> fastrpc_rpmsg_callback() treats every inbound message as an invoke
> response, so the sentinel is masked and shifted like any real response
> ((0xABCDABCD & 0xFF0) >> 4 == 188) and looked up in the channel's
> context idr.
> 
> This is not merely cosmetic. In the common case idr slot 188 is empty,
> the lookup fails, and the driver only logs a spurious "No context ID
> matches response" error on every teardown. But the context idr is shared
> by every protection domain and the listener thread on the channel and is
> filled cyclically over [1, FASTRPC_CTX_MAX]. If slot 188 holds a live
> context when the sentinel arrives, the sentinel's return value is written
> into that unrelated in-flight invocation and it is completed early.
> 
> Since neither the fastrpc library nor the driver supports the DSP PD
> notification framework, it is safe to drop the PD exit notification
> before it is ever turned into a context lookup. This removes both the
> log spam and the mis-completion race. A genuine response can never be
> masked: a real context is (idr_index << 4) | pd (at most 0xFF3) and
> can never equal the sentinel.
> 
> Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
> Reviewed-by: Ekansh Gupta <ekansh.gupta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Shawn Guo <shengchao.guo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

Does not apply to linux-next, can you rebase it pl.

thanks,
Srini
> Changes for v2:
> - Update per Ekansh's input about PD state notification (Thanks Ekansh!)
> - Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260727130940.577721-1-shengchao.guo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> 
>  drivers/misc/fastrpc.c | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/misc/fastrpc.c b/drivers/misc/fastrpc.c
> index d86e79134c68..97c60271f94a 100644
> --- a/drivers/misc/fastrpc.c
> +++ b/drivers/misc/fastrpc.c
> @@ -38,6 +38,17 @@
>  #define FASTRPC_INIT_HANDLE	1
>  #define FASTRPC_DSP_UTILITIES_HANDLE	2
>  #define FASTRPC_CTXID_MASK (0xFF0)
> +
> +/*
> + * Newer DSP firmware implements a PD (Protection Domain) notification
> + * framework that sends PD state notifications upon request. The PD exit
> + * notification is unconditionally sent by the DSP with this fixed sentinel
> + * in the context field rather than the context of an outstanding invocation.
> + * Since the fastrpc driver does not support the DSP PD notification framework,
> + * this message must be dropped rather than matched against the context idr.
> + */
> +#define FASTRPC_DSP_PD_NOTIFY_CTX	0xABCDABCD
> +
>  #define INIT_FILELEN_MAX (2 * 1024 * 1024)
>  #define INIT_FILE_NAMELEN_MAX (128)
>  #define FASTRPC_DEVICE_NAME	"fastrpc"
> @@ -2552,6 +2563,14 @@ static int fastrpc_rpmsg_callback(struct rpmsg_device *rpdev, void *data,
>  	if (!cctx)
>  		return -ENODEV;
>  
> +	/*
> +	 * A PD exit notification from the DSP PD notification framework carries
> +	 * this sentinel rather than a real context. Drop it: a real context is
> +	 * (idr_index << 4) | pd and can never collide with this value.
> +	 */
> +	if (rsp->ctx == FASTRPC_DSP_PD_NOTIFY_CTX)
> +		return 0;
> +
>  	ctxid = ((rsp->ctx & FASTRPC_CTXID_MASK) >> 4);
>  
>  	spin_lock_irqsave(&cctx->lock, flags);