[PATCH 16/27] gpu: nova-core: add GMC transport receive path
From: John Hubbard
Date: Tue Aug 18 2026 - 23:54:37 EST
GSP-RM posts GMC and RPC messages on the same message queue. Both use
the same MCTP and NVDM transport headers, but RPC messages continue with
rpc_message_header_v and GMC messages continue with GmcApiHeader.
Existing RPC receive code cannot parse the GMC layout.
Add a GMC receive path that validates the MCTP magic and rejects
payloads whose advertised length exceeds the available queue contents.
On a framing or length failure, poison the queue because the driver
cannot safely advance the read pointer without a trusted length.
Assisted-by: Cursor:claude-opus-5
Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/gpu/nova-core/gsp/cmdq.rs | 83 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
drivers/gpu/nova-core/gsp/fw.rs | 10 ++++
2 files changed, 92 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/nova-core/gsp/cmdq.rs b/drivers/gpu/nova-core/gsp/cmdq.rs
index 88b143c6a7b7..fba94153e744 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/nova-core/gsp/cmdq.rs
+++ b/drivers/gpu/nova-core/gsp/cmdq.rs
@@ -629,7 +629,7 @@ struct GspCommand<'a, H = GspMsgElement> {
/// A message ready to be processed from the message queue.
///
-/// This is the type returned by [`Cmdq::wait_for_msg`].
+/// This is the type returned by [`CmdqInner::wait_for_msg`].
struct GspMessage<'a> {
// Reference to the header of the message.
header: &'a GspMsgElement,
@@ -638,6 +638,18 @@ struct GspMessage<'a> {
contents: (&'a [u8], &'a [u8]),
}
+/// A GMC message ready to be processed from the message queue.
+///
+/// This is the type returned by [`CmdqInner::wait_for_gmc_msg`].
+#[expect(dead_code)]
+struct GmcMessage<'a> {
+ // Reference to the header of the message.
+ header: &'a GspGmcMsgElement,
+ // Slices of the payload following the `GmcApiHeader`. The second slice is empty unless the
+ // payload wraps around the end of the message queue.
+ contents: (&'a [u8], &'a [u8]),
+}
+
/// GSP command queue.
///
/// Provides the ability to send commands and receive messages from the GSP using a shared memory
@@ -1285,4 +1297,73 @@ fn drain(&mut self) -> Result {
Ok(())
}
+
+ /// Wait for a GMC message to become available on the message queue.
+ ///
+ /// This is the GMC counterpart to [`Self::wait_for_msg`] and reads the same queue. Like that
+ /// method it works purely at the transport layer, validating the MCTP framing and the
+ /// advertised length and nothing else.
+ ///
+ /// A [`GspGmcMsgElement`] and a [`GspMsgElement`] share every field through `nvdm_header`,
+ /// so a caller that may see either must check the NVDM type before reading `gmc`. Both
+ /// layouts put the element length in the same place, so the caller can advance the read
+ /// pointer past a returned message either way.
+ ///
+ /// # Errors
+ ///
+ /// - `ETIMEDOUT` if `timeout` has elapsed before any message becomes available.
+ /// - `EIO` if the framing is invalid, or the queue was already poisoned by an earlier such
+ /// failure. Either failure poisons the queue, so recovery requires a reset.
+ #[expect(dead_code)]
+ fn wait_for_gmc_msg(&self, timeout: Delta) -> Result<GmcMessage<'_>> {
+ if self.poisoned.get() {
+ return Err(EIO);
+ }
+
+ let (slice_1, slice_2) = read_poll_timeout(
+ || Ok(self.gsp_mem.driver_read_area()),
+ |driver_area| !driver_area.0.is_empty(),
+ Delta::from_millis(1),
+ timeout,
+ )
+ .map(|(slice_1, slice_2)| (slice_1.as_flattened(), slice_2.as_flattened()))?;
+
+ let Some((header, slice_1)) = GspGmcMsgElement::from_bytes_prefix(slice_1) else {
+ self.poisoned.set(true);
+ return Err(EIO);
+ };
+
+ // Checked before any length field is read, since a bad magic leaves them untrusted.
+ if !header.has_valid_magic() {
+ dev_err!(&self.dev, "GSP GMC: receive: bad MCTP magic\n");
+ self.poisoned.set(true);
+ return Err(EIO);
+ }
+
+ let payload_length = header.payload_length();
+
+ // Check that the driver read area is large enough for the message.
+ if slice_1.len() + slice_2.len() < payload_length {
+ self.poisoned.set(true);
+ return Err(EIO);
+ }
+
+ // Cut the message slices down to the actual length of the message.
+ let (slice_1, slice_2) = if slice_1.len() > payload_length {
+ // PANIC: we checked above that `slice_1` is at least as long as `payload_length`.
+ (slice_1.split_at(payload_length).0, &slice_2[0..0])
+ } else {
+ (
+ slice_1,
+ // PANIC: we checked above that `slice_1.len() + slice_2.len()` is at least as
+ // large as `payload_length`.
+ slice_2.split_at(payload_length - slice_1.len()).0,
+ )
+ };
+
+ Ok(GmcMessage {
+ header,
+ contents: (slice_1, slice_2),
+ })
+ }
}
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/nova-core/gsp/fw.rs b/drivers/gpu/nova-core/gsp/fw.rs
index 56f255a3d49c..9e6b5ec6aadb 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/nova-core/gsp/fw.rs
+++ b/drivers/gpu/nova-core/gsp/fw.rs
@@ -1055,11 +1055,21 @@ pub(crate) fn init(
})
}
+ /// Returns the length of the response payload (data after the [`GmcApiHeader`]).
+ pub(crate) fn payload_length(&self) -> usize {
+ num::u32_as_usize(self.nvdm_payload_size).saturating_sub(size_of::<GmcApiHeader>())
+ }
+
/// Returns the total length of the message, transport and GMC headers included.
pub(crate) fn length(&self) -> usize {
num::u32_as_usize(self.mctp_payload_size)
}
+ /// Returns `true` if the MCTP magic field contains the expected value.
+ pub(crate) fn has_valid_magic(&self) -> bool {
+ self.mctp_magic == MCTP_MAGIC
+ }
+
/// Returns the number of elements (i.e. memory pages) used by this message.
pub(crate) fn element_count(&self) -> u32 {
self.mctp_payload_size
--
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