[PATCH 6.19 115/220] firmware: arm_ffa: Remove vm_id argument in ffa_rxtx_unmap()

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-03-23T13:55:24Z

From: Yeoreum Yun <yeoreum.yun@arm.com>

[ Upstream commit a4e8473b775160f3ce978f621cf8dea2c7250433 ]

According to the FF-A specification (DEN0077, v1.1, §13.7), when
FFA_RXTX_UNMAP is invoked from any instance other than non-secure
physical, the w1 register must be zero (MBZ). If a non-zero value is
supplied in this context, the SPMC must return FFA_INVALID_PARAMETER.

The Arm FF-A driver operates exclusively as a guest or non-secure
physical instance where the partition ID is always zero and is not
invoked from a hypervisor context where w1 carries a VM ID. In this
execution model, the partition ID observed by the driver is always zero,
and passing a VM ID is unnecessary and potentially invalid.

Remove the vm_id parameter from ffa_rxtx_unmap() and ensure that the
SMC call is issued with w1 implicitly zeroed, as required by the
specification. This prevents invalid parameter errors and aligns the
implementation with the defined FF-A ABI behavior.

Fixes: 3bbfe9871005 ("firmware: arm_ffa: Add initial Arm FFA driver support")
Signed-off-by: Yeoreum Yun <yeoreum.yun@arm.com>
Message-Id: <20260304120953.847671-1-yeoreum.yun@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
drivers/firmware/arm_ffa/driver.c | 8 ++++----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/firmware/arm_ffa/driver.c b/drivers/firmware/arm_ffa/driver.c
index 11a702e7f641c..f6ceae987acbc 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/arm_ffa/driver.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/arm_ffa/driver.c
@@ -205,12 +205,12 @@ static int ffa_rxtx_map(phys_addr_t tx_buf, phys_addr_t rx_buf, u32 pg_cnt)
return 0;
}

-static int ffa_rxtx_unmap(u16 vm_id)
+static int ffa_rxtx_unmap(void)
{
ffa_value_t ret;

invoke_ffa_fn((ffa_value_t){
- .a0 = FFA_RXTX_UNMAP, .a1 = PACK_TARGET_INFO(vm_id, 0),
+ .a0 = FFA_RXTX_UNMAP,
}, &ret);

if (ret.a0 == FFA_ERROR)
@@ -2093,7 +2093,7 @@ static int __init ffa_init(void)

pr_err("failed to setup partitions\n");
ffa_notifications_cleanup();
- ffa_rxtx_unmap(drv_info->vm_id);
+ ffa_rxtx_unmap();
free_pages:
if (drv_info->tx_buffer)
free_pages_exact(drv_info->tx_buffer, rxtx_bufsz);
@@ -2108,7 +2108,7 @@ static void __exit ffa_exit(void)
{
ffa_notifications_cleanup();
ffa_partitions_cleanup();
- ffa_rxtx_unmap(drv_info->vm_id);
+ ffa_rxtx_unmap();
free_pages_exact(drv_info->tx_buffer, drv_info->rxtx_bufsz);
free_pages_exact(drv_info->rx_buffer, drv_info->rxtx_bufsz);
kfree(drv_info);
--
2.51.0