[PATCH v1] virt: arm-cca-guest: use raw variant of smp_processor_id() in arm_cca_report_new()

Suzuki K Poulose suzuki.poulose at arm.com
Mon May 18 02:10:06 PDT 2026


On 18/05/2026 04:31, Kohei Enju wrote:
> With CONFIG_DEBUG_PREEMPT=y, smp_processor_id() becomes an alias of
> debug_smp_processor_id(). This debug function complains when certain
> conditions that ensure CPU ID stability are not met, specifically when
> it's called from a preemptible context.
> 
> In arm_cca_report_new(), which runs in a preemptible context,
> smp_processor_id() triggers a splat [0] due to this.
> 
> However, the CPU ID obtained here is used as the target CPU for
> smp_call_function_single() to designate a specific CPU for subsequent
> operations, not to assert that the current thread will continue to
> execute on the same CPU. Therefore, snapshotting the CPU ID itself is
> correct, and thus there's no actual harm except for the splat.
> 
> Use raw_smp_processor_id() instead, to directly retrieve the current CPU
> ID without the debug checks, avoiding the unnecessary warning message
> while preserving the correct functional behavior.
> 
> [0]
>   BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000000] code: cca-workload-at/134
>   caller is debug_smp_processor_id+0x20/0x2c
>   CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 134 Comm: cca-workload-at Not tainted 7.0.0-rc1-gc74a64d12073 #1 PREEMPT
>   Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)
>   Call trace:
>    [...]
>    check_preemption_disabled+0xf8/0x100
>    debug_smp_processor_id+0x20/0x2c
>    arm_cca_report_new+0x54/0x230
>    tsm_report_read+0x184/0x260
>    tsm_report_outblob_read+0x18/0x38
>    configfs_bin_read_iter+0xf4/0x1dc
>    vfs_read+0x230/0x31c
>    [...]
> 
> Fixes: 7999edc484ca ("virt: arm-cca-guest: TSM_REPORT support for realms")
> Signed-off-by: Kohei Enju <enju.kohei at fujitsu.com>

Thank for the fix,

Reviewed-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose at arm.com>


> ---
>   drivers/virt/coco/arm-cca-guest/arm-cca-guest.c | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/virt/coco/arm-cca-guest/arm-cca-guest.c b/drivers/virt/coco/arm-cca-guest/arm-cca-guest.c
> index 0c9ea24a200c..2d450caee3e4 100644
> --- a/drivers/virt/coco/arm-cca-guest/arm-cca-guest.c
> +++ b/drivers/virt/coco/arm-cca-guest/arm-cca-guest.c
> @@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ static int arm_cca_report_new(struct tsm_report *report, void *data)
>   	 * allocate outblob based on the returned value from the 'init'
>   	 * call and that cannot be done in an atomic context.
>   	 */
> -	cpu = smp_processor_id();
> +	cpu = raw_smp_processor_id();
>   
>   	info.challenge = desc->inblob;
>   	info.challenge_size = desc->inblob_len;




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