[PATCH] tpm: crb: handle ACPI NVS memory region overlap
From: microfish
Date: Wed Aug 26 2026 - 15:56:08 EST
On certain Lenovo/AMD systems, the BIOS declares an ACPI NVS region
that covers a large memory range (e.g. 0xccc40000-0xccd3efff) which
includes the TPM CRB MMIO area (0xccd35000-0xccd38fff). The E820
subsystem registers this NVS region with IORESOURCE_BUSY in the
iomem_resource tree.
When tpm_crb probes, it calls devm_ioremap_resource() to map the CRB
registers, which internally calls devm_request_mem_region(). This fails
with -EBUSY because the NVS region already claims that address range.
Fix this by adding a crb_try_nvs_fallback() helper that detects the
ACPI NVS overlap using region_intersects() and falls back to
devm_memremap() when the resource falls inside ACPI NVS.
devm_memremap() does not require exclusive resource reservation,
making it safe to use on NVS-overlapping regions. This approach is
identical to the one used by the WDAT watchdog driver (wdat_wdt_map_mem).
The NVS fallback is applied in both code paths of crb_map_res():
1. When iores is NULL (no ACPI resource encompasses the target address)
2. When iores is non-NULL but devm_ioremap_resource() fails with EBUSY
Before this patch:
tpm_crb MSFT0101:00: error -EBUSY: can't request region for resource
[mem 0xccd35000-0xccd38fff]
tpm_crb MSFT0101:00: probe with driver tpm_crb failed with error -16
After this patch:
tpm_crb MSFT0101:00: [mem 0xccd35000-0xccd38fff] is inside ACPI NVS,
mapping without reservation
tpm_crb MSFT0101:00: of device registration complete, result 0: 0
Signed-off-by: microfish <microfish@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: microfish <f13208471983@xxxxxxx>
---
drivers/char/tpm/tpm_crb.c | 50 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 48 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_crb.c b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_crb.c
index ceb4100ba..c4e8b925c 100644
--- a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_crb.c
+++ b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_crb.c
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
#include <linux/acpi.h>
#include <linux/highmem.h>
+#include <linux/mm.h>
#include <linux/rculist.h>
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/platform_device.h>
@@ -557,6 +558,39 @@ static int crb_check_resource(struct acpi_resource *ares, void *data)
return 1;
}
+/*
+ * Try to map a resource region. If devm_ioremap_resource() fails with
+ * -EBUSY because the region falls inside an ACPI NVS area (common on
+ * certain Lenovo/AMD firmware), fall back to devm_memremap() which
+ * does not require exclusive resource reservation. This is analogous
+ * to the approach used by the WDAT watchdog driver (wdat_wdt_map_mem).
+ */
+static void __iomem *crb_try_nvs_fallback(struct device *dev, u64 start,
+ u32 size)
+{
+ struct resource res = {
+ .start = start,
+ .end = start + size - 1,
+ .flags = IORESOURCE_MEM,
+ };
+ void *addr;
+
+ if (region_intersects(res.start, resource_size(&res), IORESOURCE_MEM,
+ IORES_DESC_ACPI_NV_STORAGE) !=
+ REGION_INTERSECTS)
+ return NULL;
+
+ dev_warn(dev,
+ "%pR is inside ACPI NVS, mapping without reservation\n",
+ &res);
+
+ addr = devm_memremap(dev, res.start, resource_size(&res), MEMREMAP_WB);
+ if (IS_ERR(addr))
+ return IOMEM_ERR_PTR(PTR_ERR(addr));
+
+ return (void __iomem __force *)addr;
+}
+
static void __iomem *crb_map_res(struct device *dev, struct resource *iores,
void __iomem **iobase_ptr, u64 start, u32 size)
{
@@ -565,18 +599,30 @@ static void __iomem *crb_map_res(struct device *dev, struct resource *iores,
.end = start + size - 1,
.flags = IORESOURCE_MEM,
};
+ void __iomem *p;
/* Detect a 64 bit address on a 32 bit system */
if (start != new_res.start)
return IOMEM_ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
- if (!iores)
+ if (!iores) {
+ p = crb_try_nvs_fallback(dev, start, size);
+ if (p)
+ return p;
return devm_ioremap_resource(dev, &new_res);
+ }
if (!*iobase_ptr) {
*iobase_ptr = devm_ioremap_resource(dev, iores);
- if (IS_ERR(*iobase_ptr))
+ if (IS_ERR(*iobase_ptr)) {
+ p = crb_try_nvs_fallback(dev, iores->start,
+ resource_size(iores));
+ if (p) {
+ *iobase_ptr = p;
+ return p + (new_res.start - iores->start);
+ }
return *iobase_ptr;
+ }
}
return *iobase_ptr + (new_res.start - iores->start);
--
2.47.3