Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] firmware: qcom_scm: handle empty PAS resource table

From: Konrad Dybcio

Date: Tue Sep 22 2026 - 06:51:41 EST


On 9/21/26 9:56 PM, Mukesh Ojha wrote:
> The PAS resource-table query may successfully return a zero-sized
> table. kmemdup() with a zero length returns ZERO_SIZE_PTR,
> which is stored in rproc->table_ptr. The remoteproc core then
> dereferences this invalid pointer while processing resources.
>
> Treat a zero-sized result as an absent resource table and return
> NULL after releasing the TrustZone memory buffer. This allows the
> remoteproc core to skip resource-table processing.
>
> Fixes: 8b9d2050cfa0 ("firmware: qcom_scm: Add qcom_scm_pas_get_rsc_table() to get resource table")
> Signed-off-by: Mukesh Ojha <mukesh.ojha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Konrad Dybcio <konrad.dybcio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


> Changes in v2:
> - New change.
>
> drivers/firmware/qcom/qcom_scm.c | 10 +++++++++-
> 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/firmware/qcom/qcom_scm.c b/drivers/firmware/qcom/qcom_scm.c
> index df20773dd754..b5959f833dd7 100644
> --- a/drivers/firmware/qcom/qcom_scm.c
> +++ b/drivers/firmware/qcom/qcom_scm.c
> @@ -823,6 +823,14 @@ static void *qcom_scm_pas_get_rsc_table(struct device *dev,
> goto free_input_rt;
> }
>
> + *output_rt_size = size;
> +
> + /* A zero-sized table means that TrustZone has no resource table. */
> + if (!size) {
> + tbl_ptr = NULL;
> + goto free_output_rt;
> + }
> +
> tbl_ptr = kmemdup(output_rt_tzm, size, GFP_KERNEL);
> if (!tbl_ptr) {
> qcom_tzmem_free(output_rt_tzm);

^ this hunk can additionally be remodeled to jump to this new label
too

Konrad