[PATCH] coresight: fix source not disabled on idr_alloc_u32 failure

Jie Gan jie.gan at oss.qualcomm.com
Mon May 11 02:20:46 PDT 2026



On 5/11/2026 5:04 PM, Jie Gan wrote:
> In coresight_enable_sysfs(), for non-CPU sources (SOFTWARE, TPDM,
> OTHERS), the source device is enabled via coresight_enable_source_sysfs()
> before idr_alloc_u32() maps the path. If idr_alloc_u32() fails, the
> original code jumped directly to err_source, which only calls
> coresight_disable_path() and coresight_release_path(). The source device
> was left enabled with an incremented refcnt but no path tracked for it,
> leaving the device in an inconsistent state.
> 
> Disable the source before jumping to err_source so the enable and path
> operations are fully unwound.
> 
> Fixes: 1f5149c7751c ("coresight: Move all sysfs code to sysfs file")
> Signed-off-by: Jie Gan <quic_jiegan at quicinc.com>

My git made a mistake here..
should be:
Signed-off-by: Jie Gan <jie.gan at oss.qualcomm.com>

Thanks,
Jie

> ---
> Signed-off-by: Jie Gan <jie.gan at oss.qualcomm.com>
> ---
>   drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-sysfs.c | 4 +++-
>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-sysfs.c b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-sysfs.c
> index d2a6ed8bcc74..a5c08fab97a1 100644
> --- a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-sysfs.c
> +++ b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-sysfs.c
> @@ -244,8 +244,10 @@ int coresight_enable_sysfs(struct coresight_device *csdev)
>   		 */
>   		hash = hashlen_hash(hashlen_string(NULL, dev_name(&csdev->dev)));
>   		ret = idr_alloc_u32(&path_idr, path, &hash, hash, GFP_KERNEL);
> -		if (ret)
> +		if (ret) {
> +			coresight_disable_source_sysfs(csdev, NULL);
>   			goto err_source;
> +		}
>   		break;
>   	default:
>   		/* We can't be here */
> 
> ---
> base-commit: e98d21c170b01ddef366f023bbfcf6b31509fa83
> change-id: 20260511-fix-coresight-sysfs-enable-issue-91533f26f9bb
> 
> Best regards,




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