This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled mailbox: ti-msgmgr: Fill non-message tx data fields with 0x0 to the 5.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: mailbox-ti-msgmgr-fill-non-message-tx-data-fields-wi.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit a8083ee00dc4d6595c0a634260449f797bcdd366 Author: Nishanth Menon <nm@xxxxxx> Date: Tue Jun 20 20:00:22 2023 -0500 mailbox: ti-msgmgr: Fill non-message tx data fields with 0x0 [ Upstream commit 1b712f18c461bd75f018033a15cf381e712806b5 ] Sec proxy/message manager data buffer is 60 bytes with the last of the registers indicating transmission completion. This however poses a bit of a challenge. The backing memory for sec_proxy / message manager is regular memory, and all sec proxy does is to trigger a burst of all 60 bytes of data over to the target thread backing ring accelerator. It doesn't do a memory scrub when it moves data out in the burst. When we transmit multiple messages, remnants of previous message is also transmitted which results in some random data being set in TISCI fields of messages that have been expanded forward. The entire concept of backward compatibility hinges on the fact that the unused message fields remain 0x0 allowing for 0x0 value to be specially considered when backward compatibility of message extension is done. So, instead of just writing the completion register, we continue to fill the message buffer up with 0x0 (note: for partial message involving completion, we already do this). This allows us to scale and introduce ABI changes back also work with other boot stages that may have left data in the internal memory. While at this, be consistent and explicit with the data_reg pointer increment. Fixes: aace66b170ce ("mailbox: Introduce TI message manager driver") Signed-off-by: Nishanth Menon <nm@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jassi Brar <jaswinder.singh@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/mailbox/ti-msgmgr.c b/drivers/mailbox/ti-msgmgr.c index 88047d835211c..75f14b624ca22 100644 --- a/drivers/mailbox/ti-msgmgr.c +++ b/drivers/mailbox/ti-msgmgr.c @@ -385,14 +385,20 @@ static int ti_msgmgr_send_data(struct mbox_chan *chan, void *data) /* Ensure all unused data is 0 */ data_trail &= 0xFFFFFFFF >> (8 * (sizeof(u32) - trail_bytes)); writel(data_trail, data_reg); - data_reg++; + data_reg += sizeof(u32); } + /* * 'data_reg' indicates next register to write. If we did not already * write on tx complete reg(last reg), we must do so for transmit + * In addition, we also need to make sure all intermediate data + * registers(if any required), are reset to 0 for TISCI backward + * compatibility to be maintained. */ - if (data_reg <= qinst->queue_buff_end) - writel(0, qinst->queue_buff_end); + while (data_reg <= qinst->queue_buff_end) { + writel(0, data_reg); + data_reg += sizeof(u32); + } return 0; }