[PATCH v2 07/14] firmware: arm_scmi: Unwind TX receiver mailbox setup failure

Sudeep Holla sudeep.holla at kernel.org
Wed Jul 1 09:52:28 PDT 2026


mailbox_chan_setup() can request an additional unidirectional TX
receiver channel after successfully acquiring the primary channel. If
that second request fails, the function returns immediately and leaves
the primary channel allocated.

Unwind the primary mailbox channel before returning the error so probe
deferral or other setup failures do not leave the channel busy for later
probe attempts.

Fixes: 9f68ff79ec2c ("firmware: arm_scmi: Add support for unidirectional mailbox channels")
Reported-by: Sashiko <sashiko-bot at kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla at kernel.org>
---
 drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/transports/mailbox.c | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/transports/mailbox.c b/drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/transports/mailbox.c
index ae0f67e6cc45..44d45ce838e5 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/transports/mailbox.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/transports/mailbox.c
@@ -225,9 +225,10 @@ static int mailbox_chan_setup(struct scmi_chan_info *cinfo, struct device *dev,
 		smbox->chan_receiver = mbox_request_channel(cl, a2p_rx_chan);
 		if (IS_ERR(smbox->chan_receiver)) {
 			ret = PTR_ERR(smbox->chan_receiver);
+			smbox->chan_receiver = NULL;
 			if (ret != -EPROBE_DEFER)
 				dev_err(cdev, "failed to request SCMI Tx Receiver mailbox\n");
-			return ret;
+			goto err_free_chan;
 		}
 	}
 
@@ -246,6 +247,10 @@ static int mailbox_chan_setup(struct scmi_chan_info *cinfo, struct device *dev,
 	mutex_init(&smbox->chan_lock);
 
 	return 0;
+
+err_free_chan:
+	mbox_free_channel(smbox->chan);
+	return ret;
 }
 
 static int mailbox_chan_free(int id, void *p, void *data)

-- 
2.43.0




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