Re: [PATCH v8 2/7] drm/bridge: Implement generic USB Type-C DP HPD bridge

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Thank you for your contribution! Sashiko AI review found 4 potential issue(s) to consider:
- [High] drm/bridge: duplicate DP HPD bridge registration in drm_typec_bus_event()
- [High] drm/bridge: unmanaged foreign devm lifecycle in drm_typec_bus_event()
- [Medium] drm/bridge: missing NULL check on OF node np in drm_typec_bus_event()
- [Medium] drm/bridge: race in drm_typec_bus_event() registers duplicate HPD bridges
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commit 0d7c7d8508812052924ea27964a66741735bcf9e
Author: Chaoyi Chen <chaoyi.chen@rock-chips.com>

drm/bridge: Implement generic USB Type-C DP HPD bridge

This commit introduces a generic Type-C DisplayPort HPD bridge driver that
listens for Type-C bus events and registers an HPD bridge via
aux-hpd-bridge.c when a Type-C port altmode with the DisplayPort SVID is
added.

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> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/aux-hpd-typec-dp-bridge.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/aux-hpd-typec-dp-bridge.c
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000000000..682bc192e0934
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/aux-hpd-typec-dp-bridge.c
> @@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
> +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
> +/*
> + * Copyright (C) 2026 Rockchip Electronics Co., Ltd.
> + *
> + * Author: Chaoyi Chen <chaoyi.chen@rock-chips.com>
> + */
> +#include <linux/of.h>
> +#include <linux/usb/typec_altmode.h>
> +#include <linux/usb/typec_dp.h>
> +
> +#include <drm/bridge/aux-bridge.h>
> +
> +static int drm_typec_bus_event(struct notifier_block *nb, unsigned long action,
> +			       void *data)
> +{
> +	struct device *dev = (struct device *)data;
> +	struct typec_altmode *alt = to_typec_altmode(dev);
> +	struct device_node *np;
> +
> +	if (action != BUS_NOTIFY_ADD_DEVICE)
> +		return NOTIFY_OK;
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * alt->dev.parent->parent : USB-C controller device
> +	 * alt->dev.parent         : USB-C connector device
> +	 */
> +	if (is_typec_port_altmode(&alt->dev) && alt->svid == USB_TYPEC_DP_SID) {
> +		np = to_of_node(alt->dev.parent->fwnode);

[Severity: Medium]
What happens on a kernel built with CONFIG_OF=y when a Type-C port is backed
by an ACPI fwnode, a software_node, or a NULL fwnode (such as via ucsi_acpi or
cros_ec_typec)?

In that case, to_of_node(alt->dev.parent->fwnode) returns NULL. Because np is
not checked for NULL here, drm_typec_bus_event() passes np = NULL to
drm_dev_has_dp_hpd_bridge() and drm_dp_hpd_bridge_register().

In drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/aux-hpd-bridge.c, devm_drm_dp_hpd_bridge_alloc()
accepts np = NULL:

    adev->dev.platform_data = of_node_get(np);

and drm_aux_hpd_bridge_probe() then registers a bridge with a NULL of_node on
the global DRM bridge_list:

    data->dev = &auxdev->dev;
    data->bridge.of_node = dev_get_platdata(data->dev);
    data->bridge.ops = DRM_BRIDGE_OP_HPD;

Wouldn't this allocate a bogus auxiliary_device and add an entry with
bridge->of_node == NULL to bridge_list, which would then falsely match any
of_drm_find_and_get_bridge(NULL) lookup?

> +		if (!drm_dev_has_dp_hpd_bridge(alt->dev.parent->parent, np))
> +			drm_dp_hpd_bridge_register(alt->dev.parent->parent, np);

[Severity: High]
Can this check in drm_typec_bus_event() still result in duplicate DP HPD
bridge registrations for the same USB-C connector OF node and premature child
device binding during parent controller probe()?

When a Type-C port altmode is registered, typec_port_register_altmode() ->
typec_register_altmode() -> device_register() -> device_add() ->
bus_notify(dev, BUS_NOTIFY_ADD_DEVICE) invokes drm_typec_bus_event()
synchronously.

Inside drm_dev_has_dp_hpd_bridge() in drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/aux-hpd-bridge.c:

    child = device_find_child(parent, np, hpd_bridge_match);

device_find_child() only sees children that have already been added to
parent->p->klist_children via device_add() in devm_drm_dp_hpd_bridge_add().

1. In drivers/usb/typec/tcpm/fusb302.c:fusb302_probe() and
drivers/usb/typec/tcpm/qcom/qcom_pmic_typec.c:qcom_pmic_typec_probe(), the
driver allocates the bridge first (which only calls auxiliary_device_init() /
device_initialize()), registers the TCPM port, and only calls
devm_drm_dp_hpd_bridge_add() afterwards:

    bridge_dev = devm_drm_dp_hpd_bridge_alloc(chip->dev, to_of_node(chip->tcpc_dev.fwnode));
    ...
    chip->tcpm_port = tcpm_register_port(&client->dev, &chip->tcpc_dev);
    ...
    ret = devm_drm_dp_hpd_bridge_add(chip->dev, bridge_dev);

Because the bridge has not been added to klist_children when
tcpm_register_port() fires BUS_NOTIFY_ADD_DEVICE, drm_dev_has_dp_hpd_bridge()
returns false, drm_typec_bus_event() registers a bridge via
drm_dp_hpd_bridge_register(), and the driver then adds a second duplicate
bridge via devm_drm_dp_hpd_bridge_add().

2. In drivers/usb/typec/ucsi/ucsi_yoga_c630.c:yoga_c630_ucsi_probe():

    ret = ucsi_register(uec->ucsi);
    if (ret)
        goto err_unregister;

    if (uec->bridge) {
        ret = devm_drm_dp_hpd_bridge_add(&adev->dev, uec->bridge);

ucsi_register() schedules ucsi_init_work before devm_drm_dp_hpd_bridge_add()
adds uec->bridge. If ucsi_init_work registers the port altmode first,
drm_typec_bus_event() registers a duplicate bridge ahead of uec->bridge.
Because of_drm_find_and_get_bridge() attaches the first bridge on bridge_list,
while yoga_c630_ucsi_notify() sends drm_aux_hpd_bridge_notify() events to
&uec->bridge->dev, wouldn't HPD notifications go to the unattached bridge?

3. On Qualcomm PMIC GLINK platforms, pmic_glink_altmode_probe() in
drivers/soc/qcom/pmic_glink_altmode.c registers the HPD bridge under
&pg->altmode_aux.dev, whereas pmic_glink_ucsi registers the Type-C port under
the sibling &pg->ucsi_aux.dev. Checking alt->dev.parent->parent
(&pg->ucsi_aux.dev) will not find the bridge under &pg->altmode_aux.dev,
causing a duplicate bridge to be registered while pmic_glink_altmode sends HPD
events to its own bridge instance.

4. Calling drm_dp_hpd_bridge_register() synchronously inside
BUS_NOTIFY_ADD_DEVICE while a controller driver is still in probe() (for
example, cd321x_register_port_altmodes() in drivers/usb/typec/tipd/core.c
before fwnode_typec_mux_get(), or cros_typec_register_port_altmodes() before
cros_typec_get_switch_handles() for subsequent ports in
drivers/platform/chrome/cros_ec_typec.c) adds and binds a child auxiliary
device in the middle of probe(). If a later probe step returns -EPROBE_DEFER,
doesn't the child's driver_bound() -> driver_deferred_probe_trigger()
re-trigger the unbounded re-probe loop that commit 718b36a7b49acb avoided by
splitting alloc and add?

> +	}
> +
> +	return NOTIFY_OK;
> +}
> +
> +static struct notifier_block drm_typec_event_nb = {
> +	.notifier_call = drm_typec_bus_event,
> +};
> +
> +static int check_device_already_added(struct device *dev, void *data)
> +{
> +	drm_typec_bus_event(NULL, BUS_NOTIFY_ADD_DEVICE, dev);
> +	return 0;
> +}
> +
> +static void drm_aux_hpd_typec_dp_bridge_module_exit(void)
> +{
> +	bus_unregister_notifier(&typec_bus, &drm_typec_event_nb);
> +}

[Severity: High]
Is it safe to attach the HPD bridge lifecycle to alt->dev.parent->parent via
devm from drm_typec_bus_event() without cleaning up on BUS_NOTIFY_DEL_DEVICE
or in drm_aux_hpd_typec_dp_bridge_module_exit()?

In drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/aux-hpd-bridge.c, drm_dp_hpd_bridge_register() calls
devm_drm_dp_hpd_bridge_alloc() and devm_drm_dp_hpd_bridge_add(), which attach
devres actions (drm_aux_hpd_bridge_free_adev and drm_aux_hpd_bridge_del_adev)
and set adev->dev.release = drm_aux_hpd_bridge_release on the foreign parent
device alt->dev.parent->parent outside of its probe() context and without
holding device_lock(alt->dev.parent->parent).

Doesn't this create several lifecycle issues?

1. If Type-C port altmodes are unregistered and re-registered without
unbinding the parent controller (for example, during PD restarts calling
ucsi_unregister() and ucsi_register() in ucsi_glink.c, or error rollback in
ucsi_register_port()), BUS_NOTIFY_DEL_DEVICE is ignored, leaving stale bridge
devices and devres entries attached to the controller device.

2. Because drm_typec_bus_event() can run asynchronously from workqueues (such
as ucsi_init_work) or from bus_for_each_dev() during module init without
holding device_lock(alt->dev.parent->parent), devm_add_action_or_reset() can
race with concurrent parent driver unbind in device_unbind_cleanup() ->
devres_release_all().

3. drm_aux_hpd_typec_dp_bridge_module_exit() only calls
bus_unregister_notifier(). If aux-hpd-typec-dp-bridge.ko and aux-hpd-bridge.ko
are unloaded while the USB-C controller remains bound, the auxiliary devices
and devres callbacks remain attached to alt->dev.parent->parent and will call
into unmapped module text when the controller later unbinds.

> +
> +static int __init drm_aux_hpd_typec_dp_bridge_module_init(void)
> +{
> +	bus_register_notifier(&typec_bus, &drm_typec_event_nb);
> +	/*
> +	 * Before module initialization, some devices may have already been added.
> +	 * Register the HPD bridge for these devices.
> +	 */
> +	bus_for_each_dev(&typec_bus, NULL, NULL, check_device_already_added);
> +	return 0;
> +}

[Severity: Medium]
Can bus_for_each_dev() race with a concurrent BUS_NOTIFY_ADD_DEVICE event here
and register duplicate HPD bridges?

In drivers/base/core.c:device_add(), bus_add_device() links the new device
into sp->klist_devices on typec_bus before bus_notify() runs:

    error = bus_add_device(dev);
    if (error)
        goto BusError;
    error = dpm_sysfs_add(dev);
    if (error)
        goto DPMError;
    device_pm_add(dev);
    ...
    bus_notify(dev, BUS_NOTIFY_ADD_DEVICE);

If a Type-C port altmode device is being added concurrently on another CPU
(for example from ucsi_init_work() or gaokun_ucsi_register_worker()) after
bus_add_device() has linked it onto typec_bus, both bus_notify() and
bus_for_each_dev() can invoke drm_typec_bus_event() concurrently for the same
device.

Because drm_typec_bus_event() checks drm_dev_has_dp_hpd_bridge() and calls
drm_dp_hpd_bridge_register() without any lock, and the new auxiliary child
device is only added to parent->p->klist_children near the end of
device_add(), couldn't both callers observe drm_dev_has_dp_hpd_bridge() ==
false and register two HPD bridges for the same port?

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Let's output the clean plain text report now.commit 0d7c7d8508812052924ea27964a66741735bcf9e
Author: Chaoyi Chen <chaoyi.chen@rock-chips.com>

drm/bridge: Implement generic USB Type-C DP HPD bridge

This commit introduces a generic Type-C DisplayPort HPD bridge driver that
listens for Type-C bus events and registers an HPD bridge via
aux-hpd-bridge.c when a Type-C port altmode with the DisplayPort SVID is
added.

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> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/aux-hpd-typec-dp-bridge.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/aux-hpd-typec-dp-bridge.c
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000000000..682bc192e0934
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/aux-hpd-typec-dp-bridge.c
> @@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
> +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
> +/*
> + * Copyright (C) 2026 Rockchip Electronics Co., Ltd.
> + *
> + * Author: Chaoyi Chen <chaoyi.chen@rock-chips.com>
> + */
> +#include <linux/of.h>
> +#include <linux/usb/typec_altmode.h>
> +#include <linux/usb/typec_dp.h>
> +
> +#include <drm/bridge/aux-bridge.h>
> +
> +static int drm_typec_bus_event(struct notifier_block *nb, unsigned long action,
> +			       void *data)
> +{
> +	struct device *dev = (struct device *)data;
> +	struct typec_altmode *alt = to_typec_altmode(dev);
> +	struct device_node *np;
> +
> +	if (action != BUS_NOTIFY_ADD_DEVICE)
> +		return NOTIFY_OK;
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * alt->dev.parent->parent : USB-C controller device
> +	 * alt->dev.parent         : USB-C connector device
> +	 */
> +	if (is_typec_port_altmode(&alt->dev) && alt->svid == USB_TYPEC_DP_SID) {
> +		np = to_of_node(alt->dev.parent->fwnode);

[Severity: Medium]
What happens on a kernel built with CONFIG_OF=y when a Type-C port is backed
by an ACPI fwnode, a software_node, or a NULL fwnode (such as via ucsi_acpi or
cros_ec_typec)?

In that case, to_of_node(alt->dev.parent->fwnode) returns NULL. Because np is
not checked for NULL here, drm_typec_bus_event() passes np = NULL to
drm_dev_has_dp_hpd_bridge() and drm_dp_hpd_bridge_register().

In drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/aux-hpd-bridge.c, devm_drm_dp_hpd_bridge_alloc()
accepts np = NULL:

    adev->dev.platform_data = of_node_get(np);

and drm_aux_hpd_bridge_probe() then registers a bridge with a NULL of_node on
the global DRM bridge_list:

    data->dev = &auxdev->dev;
    data->bridge.of_node = dev_get_platdata(data->dev);
    data->bridge.ops = DRM_BRIDGE_OP_HPD;

Wouldn't this allocate a bogus auxiliary_device and add an entry with
bridge->of_node == NULL to bridge_list, which would then falsely match any
of_drm_find_and_get_bridge(NULL) lookup?

> +		if (!drm_dev_has_dp_hpd_bridge(alt->dev.parent->parent, np))
> +			drm_dp_hpd_bridge_register(alt->dev.parent->parent, np);

[Severity: High]
Can this check in drm_typec_bus_event() still result in duplicate DP HPD
bridge registrations for the same USB-C connector OF node and premature child
device binding during parent controller probe()?

When a Type-C port altmode is registered, typec_port_register_altmode() ->
typec_register_altmode() -> device_register() -> device_add() ->
bus_notify(dev, BUS_NOTIFY_ADD_DEVICE) invokes drm_typec_bus_event()
synchronously.

Inside drm_dev_has_dp_hpd_bridge() in drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/aux-hpd-bridge.c:

    child = device_find_child(parent, np, hpd_bridge_match);

device_find_child() only sees children that have already been added to
parent->p->klist_children via device_add() in devm_drm_dp_hpd_bridge_add().

1. In drivers/usb/typec/tcpm/fusb302.c:fusb302_probe() and
drivers/usb/typec/tcpm/qcom/qcom_pmic_typec.c:qcom_pmic_typec_probe(), the
driver allocates the bridge first (which only calls auxiliary_device_init() /
device_initialize()), registers the TCPM port, and only calls
devm_drm_dp_hpd_bridge_add() afterwards:

    bridge_dev = devm_drm_dp_hpd_bridge_alloc(chip->dev, to_of_node(chip->tcpc_dev.fwnode));
    ...
    chip->tcpm_port = tcpm_register_port(&client->dev, &chip->tcpc_dev);
    ...
    ret = devm_drm_dp_hpd_bridge_add(chip->dev, bridge_dev);

Because the bridge has not been added to klist_children when
tcpm_register_port() fires BUS_NOTIFY_ADD_DEVICE, drm_dev_has_dp_hpd_bridge()
returns false, drm_typec_bus_event() registers a bridge via
drm_dp_hpd_bridge_register(), and the driver then adds a second duplicate
bridge via devm_drm_dp_hpd_bridge_add().

2. In drivers/usb/typec/ucsi/ucsi_yoga_c630.c:yoga_c630_ucsi_probe():

    ret = ucsi_register(uec->ucsi);
    if (ret)
        goto err_unregister;

    if (uec->bridge) {
        ret = devm_drm_dp_hpd_bridge_add(&adev->dev, uec->bridge);

ucsi_register() schedules ucsi_init_work before devm_drm_dp_hpd_bridge_add()
adds uec->bridge. If ucsi_init_work registers the port altmode first,
drm_typec_bus_event() registers a duplicate bridge ahead of uec->bridge.
Because of_drm_find_and_get_bridge() attaches the first bridge on bridge_list,
while yoga_c630_ucsi_notify() sends drm_aux_hpd_bridge_notify() events to
&uec->bridge->dev, wouldn't HPD notifications go to the unattached bridge?

3. On Qualcomm PMIC GLINK platforms, pmic_glink_altmode_probe() in
drivers/soc/qcom/pmic_glink_altmode.c registers the HPD bridge under
&pg->altmode_aux.dev, whereas pmic_glink_ucsi registers the Type-C port under
the sibling &pg->ucsi_aux.dev. Checking alt->dev.parent->parent
(&pg->ucsi_aux.dev) will not find the bridge under &pg->altmode_aux.dev,
causing a duplicate bridge to be registered while pmic_glink_altmode sends HPD
events to its own bridge instance.

4. Calling drm_dp_hpd_bridge_register() synchronously inside
BUS_NOTIFY_ADD_DEVICE while a controller driver is still in probe() (for
example, cd321x_register_port_altmodes() in drivers/usb/typec/tipd/core.c
before fwnode_typec_mux_get(), or cros_typec_register_port_altmodes() before
cros_typec_get_switch_handles() for subsequent ports in
drivers/platform/chrome/cros_ec_typec.c) adds and binds a child auxiliary
device in the middle of probe(). If a later probe step returns -EPROBE_DEFER,
doesn't the child's driver_bound() -> driver_deferred_probe_trigger()
re-trigger the unbounded re-probe loop that commit 718b36a7b49acb avoided by
splitting alloc and add?

> +	}
> +
> +	return NOTIFY_OK;
> +}
> +
> +static struct notifier_block drm_typec_event_nb = {
> +	.notifier_call = drm_typec_bus_event,
> +};
> +
> +static int check_device_already_added(struct device *dev, void *data)
> +{
> +	drm_typec_bus_event(NULL, BUS_NOTIFY_ADD_DEVICE, dev);
> +	return 0;
> +}
> +
> +static void drm_aux_hpd_typec_dp_bridge_module_exit(void)
> +{
> +	bus_unregister_notifier(&typec_bus, &drm_typec_event_nb);
> +}

[Severity: High]
Is it safe to attach the HPD bridge lifecycle to alt->dev.parent->parent via
devm from drm_typec_bus_event() without cleaning up on BUS_NOTIFY_DEL_DEVICE
or in drm_aux_hpd_typec_dp_bridge_module_exit()?

In drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/aux-hpd-bridge.c, drm_dp_hpd_bridge_register() calls
devm_drm_dp_hpd_bridge_alloc() and devm_drm_dp_hpd_bridge_add(), which attach
devres actions (drm_aux_hpd_bridge_free_adev and drm_aux_hpd_bridge_del_adev)
and set adev->dev.release = drm_aux_hpd_bridge_release on the foreign parent
device alt->dev.parent->parent outside of its probe() context and without
holding device_lock(alt->dev.parent->parent).

Doesn't this create several lifecycle issues?

1. If Type-C port altmodes are unregistered and re-registered without
unbinding the parent controller (for example, during PD restarts calling
ucsi_unregister() and ucsi_register() in ucsi_glink.c, or error rollback in
ucsi_register_port()), BUS_NOTIFY_DEL_DEVICE is ignored, leaving stale bridge
devices and devres entries attached to the controller device.

2. Because drm_typec_bus_event() can run asynchronously from workqueues (such
as ucsi_init_work) or from bus_for_each_dev() during module init without
holding device_lock(alt->dev.parent->parent), devm_add_action_or_reset() can
race with concurrent parent driver unbind in device_unbind_cleanup() ->
devres_release_all().

3. drm_aux_hpd_typec_dp_bridge_module_exit() only calls
bus_unregister_notifier(). If aux-hpd-typec-dp-bridge.ko and aux-hpd-bridge.ko
are unloaded while the USB-C controller remains bound, the auxiliary devices
and devres callbacks remain attached to alt->dev.parent->parent and will call
into unmapped module text when the controller later unbinds.

> +
> +static int __init drm_aux_hpd_typec_dp_bridge_module_init(void)
> +{
> +	bus_register_notifier(&typec_bus, &drm_typec_event_nb);
> +	/*
> +	 * Before module initialization, some devices may have already been added.
> +	 * Register the HPD bridge for these devices.
> +	 */
> +	bus_for_each_dev(&typec_bus, NULL, NULL, check_device_already_added);
> +	return 0;
> +}

[Severity: Medium]
Can bus_for_each_dev() race with a concurrent BUS_NOTIFY_ADD_DEVICE event here
and register duplicate HPD bridges?

In drivers/base/core.c:device_add(), bus_add_device() links the new device
into sp->klist_devices on typec_bus before bus_notify() runs:

    error = bus_add_device(dev);
    if (error)
        goto BusError;
    error = dpm_sysfs_add(dev);
    if (error)
        goto DPMError;
    device_pm_add(dev);
    ...
    bus_notify(dev, BUS_NOTIFY_ADD_DEVICE);

If a Type-C port altmode device is being added concurrently on another CPU
(for example from ucsi_init_work() or gaokun_ucsi_register_worker()) after
bus_add_device() has linked it onto typec_bus, both bus_notify() and
bus_for_each_dev() can invoke drm_typec_bus_event() concurrently for the same
device.

Because drm_typec_bus_event() checks drm_dev_has_dp_hpd_bridge() and calls
drm_dp_hpd_bridge_register() without any lock, and the new auxiliary child
device is only added to parent->p->klist_children near the end of
device_add(), couldn't both callers observe drm_dev_has_dp_hpd_bridge() ==
false and register two HPD bridges for the same port?

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