From: Ekansh Gupta <ekansh.gupta@oss.qualcomm.com>
To: Jianping Li <jianping.li@oss.qualcomm.com>,
Srinivas Kandagatla <srini@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Thierry Escande <thierry.escande@linaro.org>,
linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, quic_chennak@quicinc.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 2/3] misc: fastrpc: wake poll-mode waiters on SSR
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:55:37 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dfe968ea-d123-4e94-9a6a-5dbc21ae431c@oss.qualcomm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261007084447.922-3-jianping.li@oss.qualcomm.com>
On 07-10-2026 14:14, Jianping Li wrote:
> fastrpc_notify_users() sets ctx->retval to -EPIPE and completes
> ctx->work for every pending and interrupted context, which is enough to
> release a thread blocked in fastrpc_wait_for_response().
>
> A thread using polling mode does not wait on that completion. It spins
> in poll_for_remote_response(), whose exit condition is:
>
> (val == FASTRPC_POLL_RESPONSE) || ctx->is_work_done
>
> Since the DSP is already down, it will never write FASTRPC_POLL_RESPONSE
> into the poll address, and is_work_done is left untouched by
> fastrpc_notify_users(). The thread therefore keeps spinning until
> FASTRPC_POLL_MAX_TIMEOUT_US expires instead of bailing out immediately.
>
> Worse, the poll address lives inside ctx->buf, so a polling thread that
> has not been told to stop is still reading a buffer that the SSR
> teardown path is about to reclaim.
>
> Set is_work_done along with retval so polling waiters observe the
> termination on their next iteration, exactly like completion waiters do.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jianping Li <jianping.li@oss.qualcomm.com>
This looks to be a bug fix, can you please add Fixes: tag?
> ---
> drivers/misc/fastrpc.c | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/misc/fastrpc.c b/drivers/misc/fastrpc.c
> index 05b2e7e4ad3b..c54c450cb571 100644
> --- a/drivers/misc/fastrpc.c
> +++ b/drivers/misc/fastrpc.c
> @@ -2663,6 +2663,7 @@ static void fastrpc_notify_users(struct fastrpc_user *user)
> spin_lock(&user->lock);
> list_for_each_entry(ctx, &user->pending, node) {
> ctx->retval = -EPIPE;
> + ctx->is_work_done = true;
> complete(&ctx->work);
> }
> spin_unlock(&user->lock);
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-19 7:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-07 8:44 [PATCH v1 0/3] misc: fastrpc: fix UAF and Oops around SSR teardown Jianping Li
2026-10-07 8:44 ` [PATCH v1 1/3] misc: fastrpc: initialise channel refcount before exposing the misc device Jianping Li
2026-10-19 7:21 ` Ekansh Gupta
2026-10-07 8:44 ` [PATCH v1 2/3] misc: fastrpc: wake poll-mode waiters on SSR Jianping Li
2026-10-19 7:25 ` Ekansh Gupta [this message]
2026-10-07 8:44 ` [PATCH v1 3/3] misc: fastrpc: drain in-flight invokes before tearing down context banks Jianping Li
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