A NULL pointer dereference was observed on Hawi at boot when the DSP
sends a glink message before fastrpc_rpmsg_probe() has completed
initialization:
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address
0000000000000178
pc : _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x34/0x8c
lr : fastrpc_rpmsg_callback+0x3c/0xcc [fastrpc]
...
Call trace:
_raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x34/0x8c (P)
fastrpc_rpmsg_callback+0x3c/0xcc [fastrpc]
qcom_glink_native_rx+0x538/0x6a4
qcom_glink_smem_intr+0x14/0x24 [qcom_glink_smem]
The faulting address 0x178 corresponds to the lock variable inside
struct fastrpc_channel_ctx, confirming that cctx is NULL when
fastrpc_rpmsg_callback() attempts to take the spinlock.
There are two issues here. First, dev_set_drvdata() is called before
spin_lock_init() and idr_init(), leaving a window where the callback
can retrieve a valid cctx pointer but operate on an uninitialized
spinlock. Second, the rpmsg channel becomes live as soon as the driver
is bound, so fastrpc_rpmsg_callback() can fire before dev_set_drvdata()
is called at all, resulting in dev_get_drvdata() returning NULL.
Fix both issues by moving all cctx initialization ahead of
dev_set_drvdata() so the structure is fully initialized before it
becomes visible to the callback, and add a NULL check in
fastrpc_rpmsg_callback() as a guard against any remaining window.
Fixes: f6f9279f2bf0 ("misc: fastrpc: Add Qualcomm fastrpc basic driver model")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mukesh Ojha <mukesh.ojha@oss.qualcomm.com>
Reviewed-by: Bjorn Andersson <andersson@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Srinivas Kandagatla <srini@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260530204528.116920-4-srini@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
kref_init(&data->refcount);
- dev_set_drvdata(&rpdev->dev, data);
rdev->dma_mask = &data->dma_mask;
dma_set_mask_and_coherent(rdev, DMA_BIT_MASK(32));
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&data->users);
idr_init(&data->ctx_idr);
data->domain_id = domain_id;
data->rpdev = rpdev;
+ dev_set_drvdata(&rpdev->dev, data);
err = of_platform_populate(rdev->of_node, NULL, NULL, rdev);
if (err)
if (len < sizeof(*rsp))
return -EINVAL;
+ if (!cctx)
+ return -ENODEV;
+
ctxid = ((rsp->ctx & FASTRPC_CTXID_MASK) >> 4);
spin_lock_irqsave(&cctx->lock, flags);