[PATCH 6.19 201/220] arm_mpam: Fix null pointer dereference when restoring bandwidth counters

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-03-23T13:59:49Z

From: Ben Horgan <ben.horgan@arm.com>

[ Upstream commit 4ad79c874e53ebb7fe3b8ae7ac6c858a2121f415 ]

When an MSC supporting memory bandwidth monitoring is brought offline and
then online, mpam_restore_mbwu_state() calls __ris_msmon_read() via ipi to
restore the configuration of the bandwidth counters. It doesn't care about
the value read, mbwu_arg.val, and doesn't set it leading to a null pointer
dereference when __ris_msmon_read() adds to it. This results in a kernel
oops with a call trace such as:

Call trace:
__ris_msmon_read+0x19c/0x64c (P)
mpam_restore_mbwu_state+0xa0/0xe8
smp_call_on_cpu_callback+0x1c/0x38
process_one_work+0x154/0x4b4
worker_thread+0x188/0x310
kthread+0x11c/0x130
ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20

Provide a local variable for val to avoid __ris_msmon_read() dereferencing
a null pointer when adding to val.

Fixes: 41e8a14950e1 ("arm_mpam: Track bandwidth counter state for power management")
Signed-off-by: Ben Horgan <ben.horgan@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
drivers/resctrl/mpam_devices.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/resctrl/mpam_devices.c b/drivers/resctrl/mpam_devices.c
index b495d52918681..41fe421171813 100644
--- a/drivers/resctrl/mpam_devices.c
+++ b/drivers/resctrl/mpam_devices.c
@@ -1428,6 +1428,7 @@ static void mpam_reprogram_ris_partid(struct mpam_msc_ris *ris, u16 partid,
static int mpam_restore_mbwu_state(void *_ris)
{
int i;
+ u64 val;
struct mon_read mwbu_arg;
struct mpam_msc_ris *ris = _ris;
struct mpam_class *class = ris->vmsc->comp->class;
@@ -1437,6 +1438,7 @@ static int mpam_restore_mbwu_state(void *_ris)
mwbu_arg.ris = ris;
mwbu_arg.ctx = &ris->mbwu_state[i].cfg;
mwbu_arg.type = mpam_msmon_choose_counter(class);
+ mwbu_arg.val = &val;

__ris_msmon_read(&mwbu_arg);
}
--
2.51.0