[PATCH] firmware: arm_ffa: honor descriptor size in PARTITION_INFO_GET_REGS

[Sudeep Holla]

On Tue, May 12, 2026 at 08:28:00PM -0700, Jamie Nguyen wrote:
> __ffa_partition_info_get_regs() walks the response with a hardcoded
> 24-byte stride (regs += 3) even though the SPMC tells us the actual
> per-descriptor size via PARTITION_INFO_SZ in x2[63:48]. The size is
> read into buf_sz and then thrown away.
> 
> That works while every SPMC returns the FF-A v1.1 layout, but it falls
> apart against a v1.3 SPMC returning the 48-byte descriptor. The loop
> strides over half a descriptor at a time and ends up parsing every
> other entry from a slice of two adjacent ones.
> 
> The FF-A spec (v1.2, section 18.5) says that the producer should
> report the descriptor size, and the consumer is supposed to stride by
> that size and ignore any trailing fields it doesn't understand. The
> non-REGS path (__ffa_partition_info_get) does this already, and the
> REGS path should match.
> 
> Use buf_sz for the stride, and bail out with -EPROTO if the SPMC
> reports something we can't safely walk.
> 

Can you check if the issue is addressed in -next by:
Commit 3974ea193840 ("firmware: arm_ffa: Bound PARTITION_INFO_GET_REGS copies")

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Regards,
Sudeep