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From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "Marco Scardovi" <scardracs@disroot.org>,
	"Denis Benato" <denis.benato@linux.dev>,
	"Armin Wolf" <W_Armin@gmx.de>,
	"Ilpo Järvinen" <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>,
	"Sasha Levin" <sashal@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 5.15.y] platform/x86: asus-wmi: Serialize WMI method evaluations with a mutex
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2026 11:47:11 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261110164642.2537372-1-sashal@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261107060506-failed-5.15-b9428edaf410@kernel.org>

From: Marco Scardovi <scardracs@disroot.org>

[ Upstream commit b9428edaf4109e86a97254228d831767d0acc1f8 ]

Concurrent evaluations of ASUS WMI management methods (from ACPI notify,
HID, userspace daemons, and debugfs) enter the BIOS ACPI/SMM interface
simultaneously, triggering re-entrant SMIs or EC mailbox buffer corruption.

Fix this at the root by introducing a centralized evaluation helper
(asus_wmi_evaluate_method_locked()) protected by a global mutex
(asus_wmi_eval_lock) using guard(mutex). Route all evaluations of
ASUS_WMI_MGMT_GUID (method3, method5, method_buf, and show_call) through
this helper.

A static mutex is required because asus_wmi_evaluate_method() is an
exported symbol used by external modules (such as hid-asus and
asus-armoury) that lack access to struct asus_wmi drvdata, and the
underlying ASUS ACPI/EC management method is a single physical platform
resource.

The mutex is non-recursive: nested ACPI/WMI notify handlers must not call
back into evaluate on the same task (defer via workqueue, as
asus_rfkill_notify already does).

The sysfs-versus-notify race predates the later export of
asus_wmi_evaluate_method(), so Fixes points at the original shared
evaluate helper rather than that export.

Link: https://github.com/OpenGamingCollective/asusctl/issues/328
Fixes: d33da3b68669 ("asus-wmi: factorise wmi_evaluate_method call")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Marco Scardovi <scardracs@disroot.org>
Reviewed-by: Denis Benato <denis.benato@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: Armin Wolf <W_Armin@gmx.de>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/b6a1981777e63f0c28bd719d8203ebbda57d6957.1789722252.git.scardracs@disroot.org
Reviewed-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
[ sashal: Replaced the guard(mutex)-based helper with explicit mutex_lock()/mutex_unlock() calls at the two existing evaluation sites. ]
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
 drivers/platform/x86/asus-wmi.c | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/asus-wmi.c b/drivers/platform/x86/asus-wmi.c
index 7714a8327021f..09b9d4679b617 100644
--- a/drivers/platform/x86/asus-wmi.c
+++ b/drivers/platform/x86/asus-wmi.c
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 
 #include <linux/kernel.h>
 #include <linux/module.h>
+#include <linux/mutex.h>
 #include <linux/init.h>
 #include <linux/types.h>
 #include <linux/slab.h>
@@ -249,6 +250,12 @@ struct asus_wmi {
 
 /* WMI ************************************************************************/
 
+/*
+ * Concurrent evaluations of ASUS WMI methods can re-enter firmware
+ * SMI/EC mailbox handling and corrupt the mailbox.
+ */
+static DEFINE_MUTEX(asus_wmi_eval_lock);
+
 static int asus_wmi_evaluate_method3(u32 method_id,
 		u32 arg0, u32 arg1, u32 arg2, u32 *retval)
 {
@@ -263,8 +270,10 @@ static int asus_wmi_evaluate_method3(u32 method_id,
 	union acpi_object *obj;
 	u32 tmp = 0;
 
+	mutex_lock(&asus_wmi_eval_lock);
 	status = wmi_evaluate_method(ASUS_WMI_MGMT_GUID, 0, method_id,
 				     &input, &output);
+	mutex_unlock(&asus_wmi_eval_lock);
 
 	if (ACPI_FAILURE(status))
 		return -EIO;
@@ -2906,9 +2915,11 @@ static int show_call(struct seq_file *m, void *data)
 	union acpi_object *obj;
 	acpi_status status;
 
+	mutex_lock(&asus_wmi_eval_lock);
 	status = wmi_evaluate_method(ASUS_WMI_MGMT_GUID,
 				     0, asus->debug.method_id,
 				     &input, &output);
+	mutex_unlock(&asus_wmi_eval_lock);
 
 	if (ACPI_FAILURE(status))
 		return -EIO;
-- 
2.53.0


      reply	other threads:[~2026-11-10 16:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-11-07 11:05 FAILED: patch "[PATCH] platform/x86: asus-wmi: Serialize WMI method evaluations with a mutex" failed to apply to 5.15-stable tree Sasha Levin
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