[PATCH 1/2] rpmb: stop the routing after unregister

From: Haruka Kuze

Date: Thu Oct 29 2026 - 04:14:17 EST


OP-TEE has a reference of RPMB device it used. So, it can route
frames through the device after rpmb_dev_unregister() is called.
Therefore, the parent device passed to route_frames() can be
already freed, for example, mmc_blk_remove_rpmb_part() drops the
last reference after rpmb unregister.

This patch clears the route_frames when the device is going to
be removed by getting new rwsem and makes rpmb_route_frames()
return -ENODEV if the device is gone.

Fixes: 1e9046e3a154 ("rpmb: add Replay Protected Memory Block (RPMB) subsystem")
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Haruka Kuze <harukak@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/misc/rpmb-core.c | 22 +++++++++++++++++++---
include/linux/rpmb.h | 4 ++++
2 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/misc/rpmb-core.c b/drivers/misc/rpmb-core.c
index ecf14acf230a..0538871af584 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/rpmb-core.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/rpmb-core.c
@@ -45,16 +45,23 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rpmb_dev_put);
* @rsp: rpmb response frames
* @rsp_len: length of rpmb response frames in bytes
*
- * Returns: < 0 on failure
+ * Returns: < 0 on failure, -ENODEV if the device has been unregistered
*/
int rpmb_route_frames(struct rpmb_dev *rdev, u8 *req,
unsigned int req_len, u8 *rsp, unsigned int rsp_len)
{
+ int ret = -ENODEV;
+
if (!req || !req_len || !rsp || !rsp_len)
return -EINVAL;

- return rdev->descr.route_frames(rdev->dev.parent, req, req_len,
- rsp, rsp_len);
+ down_read(&rdev->lock);
+ if (rdev->descr.route_frames)
+ ret = rdev->descr.route_frames(rdev->dev.parent, req, req_len,
+ rsp, rsp_len);
+ up_read(&rdev->lock);
+
+ return ret;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rpmb_route_frames);

@@ -126,6 +133,10 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rpmb_interface_unregister);
* This function should be called from the release function of the
* underlying device used when the RPMB device was registered.
*
+ * Once this returns, rpmb_route_frames() no longer calls into
+ * the driver, even though the users might still hold a reference
+ * to the RPMB dev.
+ *
* Returns: < 0 on failure
*/
int rpmb_dev_unregister(struct rpmb_dev *rdev)
@@ -133,6 +144,10 @@ int rpmb_dev_unregister(struct rpmb_dev *rdev)
if (!rdev)
return -EINVAL;

+ down_write(&rdev->lock);
+ rdev->descr.route_frames = NULL;
+ up_write(&rdev->lock);
+
device_del(&rdev->dev);

rpmb_dev_put(rdev);
@@ -165,6 +180,7 @@ struct rpmb_dev *rpmb_dev_register(struct device *dev,
if (!rdev)
return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
rdev->descr = *descr;
+ init_rwsem(&rdev->lock);
rdev->descr.dev_id = kmemdup(descr->dev_id, descr->dev_id_len,
GFP_KERNEL);
if (!rdev->descr.dev_id) {
diff --git a/include/linux/rpmb.h b/include/linux/rpmb.h
index ed3f8e431eff..0a976572d1cd 100644
--- a/include/linux/rpmb.h
+++ b/include/linux/rpmb.h
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
#define __RPMB_H__

#include <linux/device.h>
+#include <linux/rwsem.h>
#include <linux/types.h>

/**
@@ -51,12 +52,15 @@ struct rpmb_descr {
* @id : device_id
* @list_node : linked list node
* @descr : RPMB description
+ * @lock : protect @descr.route_frames which is cleared when this
+ * device is unregistered
*/
struct rpmb_dev {
struct device dev;
int id;
struct list_head list_node;
struct rpmb_descr descr;
+ struct rw_semaphore lock;
};

#define to_rpmb_dev(x) container_of((x), struct rpmb_dev, dev)
--
2.55.0