[PATCH 6/8] iommu/qcom: Add NULL ctx check in TLB invalidation paths
Robin Murphy
robin.murphy at arm.com
Tue Jun 23 10:08:08 PDT 2026
On 23/06/2026 1:20 pm, Mukesh Ojha wrote:
> to_ctx() returns qcom_iommu->ctxs[asid], which can be NULL if the
> corresponding context bank failed to probe or was already removed.
> qcom_iommu_tlb_sync(), qcom_iommu_tlb_inv_context(), and
> qcom_iommu_tlb_inv_range_nosync() all dereference the returned pointer
> directly, risking a NULL pointer dereference.
But if there's no context bank, then how has a domain been allocated in
order to permit io-pgtable operations that would eventually call into
qcom_flush_ops at all? Can you please clarify whether you've actually
observed a real-world issue here, and if so how?
Thanks,
Robin.
> Add WARN_ON(!ctx) guards with continue so TLB operations skip
> broken context banks without crashing.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mukesh Ojha <mukesh.ojha at oss.qualcomm.com>
> ---
> drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu/qcom_iommu.c | 10 ++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu/qcom_iommu.c b/drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu/qcom_iommu.c
> index 40fb0408dc07..51b60b296bb8 100644
> --- a/drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu/qcom_iommu.c
> +++ b/drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu/qcom_iommu.c
> @@ -121,6 +121,9 @@ static void qcom_iommu_tlb_sync(void *cookie)
> struct qcom_iommu_ctx *ctx = to_ctx(qcom_domain, fwspec->ids[i]);
> unsigned int val, ret;
>
> + if (WARN_ON(!ctx))
> + continue;
> +
> iommu_writel(ctx, ARM_SMMU_CB_TLBSYNC, 0);
>
> ret = readl_poll_timeout(ctx->base + ARM_SMMU_CB_TLBSTATUS, val,
> @@ -138,6 +141,10 @@ static void qcom_iommu_tlb_inv_context(void *cookie)
>
> for (i = 0; i < fwspec->num_ids; i++) {
> struct qcom_iommu_ctx *ctx = to_ctx(qcom_domain, fwspec->ids[i]);
> +
> + if (WARN_ON(!ctx))
> + continue;
> +
> iommu_writel(ctx, ARM_SMMU_CB_S1_TLBIASID, ctx->asid);
> }
>
> @@ -157,6 +164,9 @@ static void qcom_iommu_tlb_inv_range_nosync(unsigned long iova, size_t size,
> struct qcom_iommu_ctx *ctx = to_ctx(qcom_domain, fwspec->ids[i]);
> size_t s = size;
>
> + if (WARN_ON(!ctx))
> + continue;
> +
> iova = (iova >> 12) << 12;
> iova |= ctx->asid;
> do {
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