[PATCH 6.6.y 1/2] firmware: arm_scmi: Publish channel state before callbacks
From: Artem Dinaburg
Date: Thu Oct 08 2026 - 15:18:43 EST
From: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@xxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 0314900dcdde044af0208fed212035dbfaa55843 ]
Transport setup can enable callbacks before the setup routine returns.
mailbox_chan_setup() registers the mailbox client with
mbox_request_channel(), and the mailbox controller startup path can enable
interrupt delivery before SCMI mailbox channel state has been published.
Similarly, smc_chan_setup() requests the optional A2P completion IRQ before
the SMC transport has made its cinfo pointer visible.
If a pending or spurious callback fires in those windows, the transport RX
callback can dereference a NULL transport cinfo pointer. Publishing only
the transport-private pointer is not sufficient either: an early callback
can enter the SCMI core before scmi_chan_setup() has assigned
cinfo->handle.
The core derives scmi_info from cinfo->handle in the RX path, so a NULL
handle can still fault even when the transport-private cinfo is valid.
Assign cinfo->handle before invoking the transport setup callback. Publish
the mailbox and SMC transport-private channel state before requesting the
mailbox channels or IRQ, and clear the early-published pointers again on
setup failure. Also unwind mailbox setup devres resources on failure so an
optional RX setup error that is ignored by the core does not leave stale
transport state behind.
[ Backport to 6.6.y: use the pre-transport-split file layout, omit newer
SMC fields absent from this tree, and publish/clear the older mailbox
and SMC channel state around callback registration. ]
Fixes: 5c8a47a5a91d ("firmware: arm_scmi: Make scmi core independent of the transport type")
Reported-by: Sashiko <sashiko-bot@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260714-scmi_core_fixes-v6-1-3afe499d46e3@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@xxxxxxxxxx>
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Artem Dinaburg <artem@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
This is patch 1 of 2 in the ordered 6.6.y backport series.
This change addresses CVE-2026-93093. Both SCMI setup paths can make
callbacks reachable before channel state is published; release/acquire
publication ordering prevents observers from seeing an incompletely
initialized channel.
This needed a target-specific adjustment; I called it out in the bracketed
backport note above.
The fix is already present in 6.12.y, 6.18.y, and 7.2.y, but not in 6.6.y.
This fix also affects 6.1.y, which will need a separate backport; this
submission contains only the 6.6.y patch.
drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/driver.c | 2 +-
drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/mailbox.c | 18 +++++++++++++-----
drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/smc.c | 13 ++++++++-----
3 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/driver.c b/drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/driver.c
index d253e9d41d84..f99cfc49dfcd 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/driver.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/driver.c
@@ -2449,6 +2449,7 @@ static int scmi_chan_setup(struct scmi_info *info, struct device_node *of_node,
cinfo->id = prot_id;
cinfo->dev = &tdev->dev;
+ cinfo->handle = &info->handle;
ret = info->desc->ops->chan_setup(cinfo, info->dev, tx);
if (ret) {
of_node_put(of_node);
@@ -2482,7 +2483,6 @@ static int scmi_chan_setup(struct scmi_info *info, struct device_node *of_node,
return ret;
}
- cinfo->handle = &info->handle;
return 0;
}
diff --git a/drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/mailbox.c b/drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/mailbox.c
index f1d5e3fba35e..80b67f46a4d1 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/mailbox.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/mailbox.c
@@ -211,13 +211,18 @@ static int mailbox_chan_setup(struct scmi_chan_info *cinfo, struct device *dev,
cl->tx_block = false;
cl->knows_txdone = tx;
+ cinfo->transport_info = smbox;
+ smbox->cinfo = cinfo;
+ mutex_init(&smbox->chan_lock);
+
smbox->chan = mbox_request_channel(cl, tx ? 0 : p2a_chan);
if (IS_ERR(smbox->chan)) {
ret = PTR_ERR(smbox->chan);
+ smbox->chan = NULL;
if (ret != -EPROBE_DEFER)
dev_err(cdev,
"failed to request SCMI %s mailbox\n", desc);
- return ret;
+ goto err_clear_cinfo;
}
/* Additional unidirectional channel for TX if needed */
@@ -231,11 +236,14 @@ static int mailbox_chan_setup(struct scmi_chan_info *cinfo, struct device *dev,
}
}
- cinfo->transport_info = smbox;
- smbox->cinfo = cinfo;
- mutex_init(&smbox->chan_lock);
-
return 0;
+
+err_clear_cinfo:
+ cinfo->transport_info = NULL;
+ smbox->cinfo = NULL;
+ devm_iounmap(dev, smbox->shmem);
+ devm_kfree(dev, smbox);
+ return ret;
}
static int mailbox_chan_free(int id, void *p, void *data)
diff --git a/drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/smc.c b/drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/smc.c
index 771797b6e268..fada68b8e15f 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/smc.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/smc.c
@@ -166,6 +166,12 @@ static int smc_chan_setup(struct scmi_chan_info *cinfo, struct device *dev,
scmi_info->param_page = SHMEM_PAGE(res.start);
scmi_info->param_offset = SHMEM_OFFSET(res.start);
}
+
+ scmi_info->func_id = func_id;
+ scmi_info->cinfo = cinfo;
+ smc_channel_lock_init(scmi_info);
+ cinfo->transport_info = scmi_info;
+
/*
* If there is an interrupt named "a2p", then the service and
* completion of a message is signaled by an interrupt rather than by
@@ -177,17 +183,14 @@ static int smc_chan_setup(struct scmi_chan_info *cinfo, struct device *dev,
IRQF_NO_SUSPEND, dev_name(dev), scmi_info);
if (ret) {
dev_err(dev, "failed to setup SCMI smc irq\n");
+ cinfo->transport_info = NULL;
+ scmi_info->cinfo = NULL;
return ret;
}
} else {
cinfo->no_completion_irq = true;
}
- scmi_info->func_id = func_id;
- scmi_info->cinfo = cinfo;
- smc_channel_lock_init(scmi_info);
- cinfo->transport_info = scmi_info;
-
return 0;
}
--
2.39.5