[PATCH v7 17/20] ACPI: CPPC: Propagate errors from cross-CPU FFH calls

From: Christian Loehle

Date: Wed Sep 16 2026 - 12:45:26 EST


The arm64 and RISC-V CPPC FFH accessors ignore the return value of
smp_call_function_single(). If the target CPU is offline, the call can
return -ENXIO without running the callback. The accessors then consume
callback output which was never initialized and may report success.

CPU offlining leaves the CPU's CPPC sysfs attributes present. On arm64,
the AMU feature mask does not exclude an offline CPU, so a paired counter
read can expose uninitialized stack values through feedback_ctrs. RISC-V
has the same problem in both SBI and CSR reads, and its write paths also
inspect an uninitialized callback status after a failed cross-CPU call.

Return the SMP call error before using callback output. The arm64 single
and paired counter readers already check the helper's return value. For
RISC-V, also check the callback status before copying a read value: an
unsupported CSR sets the error but does not initialize the value.

Fixes: 68c5debcc06d ("arm64: implement CPPC FFH support using AMUs")
Fixes: 30f3ffbee86b ("ACPI: RISC-V: Add CPPC driver")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Christian Loehle <christian.loehle@xxxxxxx>
---
arch/arm64/kernel/topology.c | 2 +-
drivers/acpi/riscv/cppc.c | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++------
2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/topology.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/topology.c
index 2c030e78d5e4..55bd8fa3e95c 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/topology.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/topology.c
@@ -427,7 +427,7 @@ int counters_read_on_cpu(int cpu, smp_call_func_t func, void *val)
return -EPERM;
func(val);
} else {
- smp_call_function_single(cpu, func, val, 1);
+ return smp_call_function_single(cpu, func, val, 1);
}

return 0;
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/riscv/cppc.c b/drivers/acpi/riscv/cppc.c
index 42c1a9052470..4ea4ddedd91f 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/riscv/cppc.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/riscv/cppc.c
@@ -97,6 +97,7 @@ bool cpc_ffh_supported(void)
int cpc_read_ffh(int cpu, struct cpc_reg *reg, u64 *val)
{
struct sbi_cppc_data data;
+ int ret;

if (WARN_ON_ONCE(irqs_disabled()))
return -EPERM;
@@ -107,19 +108,27 @@ int cpc_read_ffh(int cpu, struct cpc_reg *reg, u64 *val)

data.reg = FFH_CPPC_SBI_REG(reg->address);

- smp_call_function_single(cpu, sbi_cppc_read, &data, 1);
+ ret = smp_call_function_single(cpu, sbi_cppc_read, &data, 1);
+ if (ret)
+ return ret;
+ if (data.ret.error)
+ return sbi_err_map_linux_errno(data.ret.error);

*val = data.ret.value;

- return (data.ret.error) ? sbi_err_map_linux_errno(data.ret.error) : 0;
+ return 0;
} else if (FFH_CPPC_TYPE(reg->address) == FFH_CPPC_CSR) {
data.reg = FFH_CPPC_CSR_NUM(reg->address);

- smp_call_function_single(cpu, cppc_ffh_csr_read, &data, 1);
+ ret = smp_call_function_single(cpu, cppc_ffh_csr_read, &data, 1);
+ if (ret)
+ return ret;
+ if (data.ret.error)
+ return data.ret.error;

*val = data.ret.value;

- return data.ret.error;
+ return 0;
}

return -EINVAL;
@@ -128,6 +137,7 @@ int cpc_read_ffh(int cpu, struct cpc_reg *reg, u64 *val)
int cpc_write_ffh(int cpu, struct cpc_reg *reg, u64 val)
{
struct sbi_cppc_data data;
+ int ret;

if (WARN_ON_ONCE(irqs_disabled()))
return -EPERM;
@@ -139,14 +149,18 @@ int cpc_write_ffh(int cpu, struct cpc_reg *reg, u64 val)
data.reg = FFH_CPPC_SBI_REG(reg->address);
data.val = val;

- smp_call_function_single(cpu, sbi_cppc_write, &data, 1);
+ ret = smp_call_function_single(cpu, sbi_cppc_write, &data, 1);
+ if (ret)
+ return ret;

return (data.ret.error) ? sbi_err_map_linux_errno(data.ret.error) : 0;
} else if (FFH_CPPC_TYPE(reg->address) == FFH_CPPC_CSR) {
data.reg = FFH_CPPC_CSR_NUM(reg->address);
data.val = val;

- smp_call_function_single(cpu, cppc_ffh_csr_write, &data, 1);
+ ret = smp_call_function_single(cpu, cppc_ffh_csr_write, &data, 1);
+ if (ret)
+ return ret;

return data.ret.error;
}
--
2.34.1