From: "Ritesh Harjani (IBM)" <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
To: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, Haren Myneni <haren@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>,
Christophe Leroy <chleroy@kernel.org>,
Venkat Rao Bagalkote <venkat88@linux.ibm.com>,
Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Ritesh Harjani (IBM)" <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
Subject: [RFC v2 00/10] pseries/papr-hvpipe: Fix deadlock, races and misc cleanups
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2026 17:31:30 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cover.1775648406.git.ritesh.list@gmail.com> (raw)
While going over papr-hvpipe code, there were a few races & a possible
recursive deadlock identified. This patch series is an attempt to fix those
along with some misc cleanups. The changes are looking sane to me in v2, so I
would appreciate any reviews, however it still hasn't been tested on the real
HW, which I will test and update.
v1->v2:
========
1. Fix a possible deadlock due to use of spin_lock instead of spin_lock_irqsave.
2. Prevent kernel stack uninit memory leak to userspace
3. Fix the race condition in null-ptr-deref case where there may be an
msg pending to be consumed from the hvpipe.
4. Fixed error handling in init routine in patch-10
[v1]: https://lore.kernel.org/linuxppc-dev/cover.1775569027.git.ritesh.list@gmail.com/#t
Ritesh Harjani (IBM) (10):
pseries/papr-hvpipe: Fix race with interrupt handler
pseries/papr-hvpipe: Prevent kernel stack memory leak to userspace
pseries/papr-hvpipe: Fix null ptr deref in papr_hvpipe_dev_create_handle()
pseries/papr-hvpipe: Fix the usage of copy_to_user()
pseries/papr-hvpipe: Simplify spin unlock usage in papr_hvpipe_handle_release()
pseries/papr-hvpipe: Kill task_struct pointer from struct hvpipe_source_info
pseries/papr-hvpipe: Refactor and simplify hvpipe_rtas_recv_msg()
pseries/papr-hvpipe: Simplify error handling in papr_hvpipe_init()
pseries/papr-hvpipe: Fix style and checkpatch issues in enable_hvpipe_IRQ()
pseries/papr-hvpipe: Fix error handling in case of init routine fails
arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/papr-hvpipe.c | 181 ++++++++++---------
arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/papr-hvpipe.h | 1 -
2 files changed, 97 insertions(+), 85 deletions(-)
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2.39.5
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2026-04-08 12:01 Ritesh Harjani (IBM) [this message]
2026-04-08 12:01 ` [RFC v2 01/10] pseries/papr-hvpipe: Fix race with interrupt handler Ritesh Harjani (IBM)
2026-04-08 12:01 ` [RFC v2 02/10] pseries/papr-hvpipe: Prevent kernel stack memory leak to userspace Ritesh Harjani (IBM)
2026-04-08 12:01 ` [RFC v2 03/10] pseries/papr-hvpipe: Fix null ptr deref in papr_hvpipe_dev_create_handle() Ritesh Harjani (IBM)
2026-04-08 12:01 ` [RFC v2 04/10] pseries/papr-hvpipe: Fix the usage of copy_to_user() Ritesh Harjani (IBM)
2026-04-08 12:01 ` [RFC v2 05/10] pseries/papr-hvpipe: Simplify spin unlock usage in papr_hvpipe_handle_release() Ritesh Harjani (IBM)
2026-04-08 12:01 ` [RFC v2 06/10] pseries/papr-hvpipe: Kill task_struct pointer from struct hvpipe_source_info Ritesh Harjani (IBM)
2026-04-08 12:01 ` [RFC v2 07/10] pseries/papr-hvpipe: Refactor and simplify hvpipe_rtas_recv_msg() Ritesh Harjani (IBM)
2026-04-08 12:01 ` [RFC v2 08/10] pseries/papr-hvpipe: Simplify error handling in papr_hvpipe_init() Ritesh Harjani (IBM)
2026-04-08 12:01 ` [RFC v2 09/10] pseries/papr-hvpipe: Fix style and checkpatch issues in enable_hvpipe_IRQ() Ritesh Harjani (IBM)
2026-04-08 12:01 ` [RFC v2 10/10] pseries/papr-hvpipe: Fix error handling in case of init routine fails Ritesh Harjani (IBM)
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