[PATCH v4 10/17] gpu: nova-core: stop re-parsing a bad GSP message

From: John Hubbard

Date: Sat Sep 12 2026 - 00:48:27 EST


A GSP message carries its length inside the checksummed region. Once the
framing or the checksum fails, there is no trustworthy length with which
to skip the message.

Two failures left a bad message at the queue head. A framing or checksum
failure returned without advancing the read pointer, so every later
receive parsed the same message again. A validly framed message whose
typed payload failed to decode returned early and did the same.

Poison the queue on a framing or checksum failure: log what was
inconsistent and fail every later receive, so the bad message is parsed
once and recovery takes a device reset. Advance the read pointer past a
validly framed message whether or not its payload decodes, and warn when
the payload is shorter than the type it decodes into.

Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/gpu/nova-core/gsp/cmdq.rs | 93 +++++++++++++++++++++----------
1 file changed, 64 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/nova-core/gsp/cmdq.rs b/drivers/gpu/nova-core/gsp/cmdq.rs
index 340760e384d0..855c5a708525 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/nova-core/gsp/cmdq.rs
+++ b/drivers/gpu/nova-core/gsp/cmdq.rs
@@ -2,7 +2,10 @@

mod continuation;

-use core::mem;
+use core::{
+ cell::Cell,
+ mem, //
+};

use kernel::{
device,
@@ -11,6 +14,7 @@
CoherentBox,
DmaAddress, //
},
+ fmt,
io::{
io_project,
poll::read_poll_timeout,
@@ -532,6 +536,7 @@ pub(crate) fn new(
dev,
gsp_mem,
seq: 0,
+ poisoned: Cell::new(false),
}),
}))
})
@@ -624,6 +629,12 @@ struct CmdqInner<'a> {
dev: &'a device::Device,
/// Current command sequence number.
seq: u32,
+ /// Set once a message fails framing or checksum validation. Every later receive fails, since
+ /// the bad message cannot be skipped. See "Draining the GSP-to-CPU queue" in
+ /// `Documentation/gpu/nova/core/interrupts.rst`.
+ ///
+ /// A [`Cell`] because [`Self::wait_for_msg`] sets it through `&self`.
+ poisoned: Cell<bool>,
/// Memory area shared with the GSP for communicating commands and messages.
gsp_mem: DmaGspMem<'a>,
}
@@ -732,6 +743,14 @@ fn send_command<M>(&mut self, bar: Bar0<'_>, command: M) -> Result
}
}

+ /// Logs `reason`, poisons the queue, and returns `EIO` for the caller to propagate.
+ fn poison(&self, reason: fmt::Arguments<'_>) -> Error {
+ dev_err!(&self.dev, "GSP RPC: receive: queue poisoned: {}\n", reason);
+ self.poisoned.set(true);
+
+ EIO
+ }
+
/// Wait for a message to become available on the message queue.
///
/// This works purely at the transport layer and does not interpret or validate the message
@@ -746,11 +765,13 @@ fn send_command<M>(&mut self, bar: Bar0<'_>, command: M) -> Result
/// # Errors
///
/// - `ETIMEDOUT` if `timeout` has elapsed before any message becomes available.
- /// - `EIO` if there was some inconsistency (e.g. message shorter than advertised) on the
- /// message queue.
- ///
- /// Error codes returned by the message constructor are propagated as-is.
+ /// - `EIO` if the queue is already poisoned, or if the framing or the checksum is invalid,
+ /// which poisons it (see [`Self::poisoned`]).
fn wait_for_msg(&self, timeout: Delta) -> Result<GspMessage<'_>> {
+ if self.poisoned.get() {
+ return Err(EIO);
+ }
+
// Wait for a message to arrive from the GSP.
let (slice_1, slice_2) = read_poll_timeout(
|| Ok(self.gsp_mem.driver_read_area()),
@@ -761,7 +782,12 @@ fn wait_for_msg(&self, timeout: Delta) -> Result<GspMessage<'_>> {
.map(|(slice_1, slice_2)| (slice_1.as_flattened(), slice_2.as_flattened()))?;

// Extract the `GspMsgElement`.
- let (header, slice_1) = GspMsgElement::from_bytes_prefix(slice_1).ok_or(EIO)?;
+ let Some((header, slice_1)) = GspMsgElement::from_bytes_prefix(slice_1) else {
+ return Err(self.poison(fmt!(
+ "read area of {} bytes is shorter than a message header",
+ slice_1.len()
+ )));
+ };

dev_dbg!(
&self.dev,
@@ -775,7 +801,11 @@ fn wait_for_msg(&self, timeout: Delta) -> Result<GspMessage<'_>> {

// Check that the driver read area is large enough for the message.
if slice_1.len() + slice_2.len() < payload_length {
- return Err(EIO);
+ return Err(self.poison(fmt!(
+ "message advertises {} payload bytes but only {} are readable",
+ payload_length,
+ slice_1.len() + slice_2.len()
+ )));
}

// Cut the message slices down to the actual length of the message.
@@ -798,12 +828,10 @@ fn wait_for_msg(&self, timeout: Delta) -> Result<GspMessage<'_>> {
slice_2,
])) != 0
{
- dev_err!(
- &self.dev,
- "GSP RPC: receive: Call {} - bad checksum\n",
+ return Err(self.poison(fmt!(
+ "message with sequence {} has a bad checksum",
header.sequence()
- );
- return Err(EIO);
+ )));
}

Ok(GspMessage {
@@ -817,13 +845,13 @@ fn wait_for_msg(&self, timeout: Delta) -> Result<GspMessage<'_>> {
/// A message whose function code is `M::FUNCTION` is decoded and returned. Any other message
/// is logged as an event.
///
- /// The read pointer is always advanced past the message, regardless of whether it matched.
+ /// The read pointer advances past the message in every case, including a decode failure.
///
/// # Errors
///
/// - `ETIMEDOUT` if `timeout` has elapsed before any message becomes available.
- /// - `EIO` if there was some inconsistency (e.g. message shorter than advertised) on the
- /// message queue.
+ /// - `EIO` if the queue is poisoned or the message fails framing or checksum validation (see
+ /// [`Self::wait_for_msg`]), or if the matched message is too short for `M::Message`.
/// - `ERANGE` if the message was not the awaited reply.
///
/// Error codes returned by [`MessageFromGsp::read`] are propagated as-is.
@@ -838,20 +866,27 @@ fn receive_msg<M: MessageFromGsp>(&mut self, timeout: Delta) -> Result<M>

// An early return here would leave the read pointer on this message.
let result = if matches!(function, Ok(f) if f == M::FUNCTION) {
- let (cmd, contents_1) = M::Message::from_bytes_prefix(message.contents.0).ok_or(EIO)?;
- let mut sbuffer = SBufferIter::new_reader([contents_1, message.contents.1]);
-
- M::read(cmd, &mut sbuffer)
- .map_err(|e| e.into())
- .inspect(|_| {
- if !sbuffer.is_empty() {
- dev_warn!(
- &self.dev,
- "GSP message {:?} has unprocessed data\n",
- M::FUNCTION
- );
- }
- })
+ match M::Message::from_bytes_prefix(message.contents.0) {
+ Some((cmd, contents_1)) => {
+ let mut sbuffer = SBufferIter::new_reader([contents_1, message.contents.1]);
+
+ M::read(cmd, &mut sbuffer)
+ .map_err(|e| e.into())
+ .inspect(|_| {
+ if !sbuffer.is_empty() {
+ dev_warn!(
+ &self.dev,
+ "GSP message {:?} has unprocessed data\n",
+ M::FUNCTION
+ );
+ }
+ })
+ }
+ None => {
+ dev_warn!(&self.dev, "GSP message {:?} too short\n", M::FUNCTION);
+ Err(EIO)
+ }
+ }
} else {
self.log_event(function, seq);

--
2.55.0