Re: [Regression, 2.6.33-rc1->current git] NULL pointer inusb_serial_probe() introduced by the recent kfifo changes

From: Stefani Seibold
Date: Wed Dec 23 2009 - 03:11:00 EST


Am Dienstag, den 22.12.2009, 21:37 -0800 schrieb Greg KH:
> On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 02:51:31AM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Something like the patch below is necessary to fix a new NULL pointer deref
> > in usb_serial_probe() that appeared after the recent kfifo changes (in short,
> > the kfifo changes modified the semantics of kfifo_alloc() that
> > usb_serial_probe() reiled on).
>
> What semantic changed? I thought that the kfifo patches came with
> patches that also fixed up any changed that were needed. What went
> wrong here?
>

This one is a new user of the kfifo API, so it forget to port it to the
new kfifo API.

Please make the write_fifo in place. Here is my patch to fix the
regression and full ported version.

Stefani

Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/usb/serial/generic.c | 12 ++++++------
drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c | 5 ++---
include/linux/usb/serial.h | 3 ++-
3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff -u -N -r -p old/drivers/usb/serial/generic.c new/drivers/usb/serial/generic.c
--- old/drivers/usb/serial/generic.c 2009-12-23 08:54:06.966476248 +0100
+++ new/drivers/usb/serial/generic.c 2009-12-23 09:06:25.778474708 +0100
@@ -276,7 +276,7 @@ static int usb_serial_generic_write_star
if (port->write_urb_busy)
start_io = false;
else {
- start_io = (kfifo_len(port->write_fifo) != 0);
+ start_io = (kfifo_len(&port->write_fifo) != 0);
port->write_urb_busy = start_io;
}
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&port->lock, flags);
@@ -285,7 +285,7 @@ static int usb_serial_generic_write_star
return 0;

data = port->write_urb->transfer_buffer;
- count = kfifo_out_locked(port->write_fifo, data, port->bulk_out_size, &port->lock);
+ count = kfifo_out_locked(&port->write_fifo, data, port->bulk_out_size, &port->lock);
usb_serial_debug_data(debug, &port->dev, __func__, count, data);

/* set up our urb */
@@ -345,7 +345,7 @@ int usb_serial_generic_write(struct tty_
return usb_serial_multi_urb_write(tty, port,
buf, count);

- count = kfifo_in_locked(port->write_fifo, buf, count, &port->lock);
+ count = kfifo_in_locked(&port->write_fifo, buf, count, &port->lock);
result = usb_serial_generic_write_start(port);

if (result >= 0)
@@ -370,7 +370,7 @@ int usb_serial_generic_write_room(struct
(serial->type->max_in_flight_urbs -
port->urbs_in_flight);
} else if (serial->num_bulk_out)
- room = port->write_fifo->size - kfifo_len(port->write_fifo);
+ room = kfifo_avail(&port->write_fifo);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&port->lock, flags);

dbg("%s - returns %d", __func__, room);
@@ -391,7 +391,7 @@ int usb_serial_generic_chars_in_buffer(s
chars = port->tx_bytes_flight;
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&port->lock, flags);
} else if (serial->num_bulk_out)
- chars = kfifo_len(port->write_fifo);
+ chars = kfifo_len(&port->write_fifo);

dbg("%s - returns %d", __func__, chars);
return chars;
@@ -507,7 +507,7 @@ void usb_serial_generic_write_bulk_callb
if (status) {
dbg("%s - nonzero multi-urb write bulk status "
"received: %d", __func__, status);
- kfifo_reset(port->write_fifo);
+ kfifo_reset_out(&port->write_fifo);
} else
usb_serial_generic_write_start(port);
}
diff -u -N -r -p old/drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c new/drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c
--- old/drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c 2009-12-23 08:54:23.204476351 +0100
+++ new/drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c 2009-12-23 09:06:39.664475312 +0100
@@ -595,8 +595,7 @@ static void port_release(struct device *
usb_free_urb(port->write_urb);
usb_free_urb(port->interrupt_in_urb);
usb_free_urb(port->interrupt_out_urb);
- if (!IS_ERR(port->write_fifo) && port->write_fifo)
- kfifo_free(port->write_fifo);
+ kfifo_free(&port->write_fifo);
kfree(port->bulk_in_buffer);
kfree(port->bulk_out_buffer);
kfree(port->interrupt_in_buffer);
@@ -939,7 +938,7 @@ int usb_serial_probe(struct usb_interfac
dev_err(&interface->dev, "No free urbs available\n");
goto probe_error;
}
- if (kfifo_alloc(port->write_fifo, PAGE_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL))
+ if (kfifo_alloc(&port->write_fifo, PAGE_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL))
goto probe_error;
buffer_size = le16_to_cpu(endpoint->wMaxPacketSize);
port->bulk_out_size = buffer_size;
diff -u -N -r -p old/include/linux/usb/serial.h new/include/linux/usb/serial.h
--- old/include/linux/usb/serial.h 2009-12-23 08:54:34.368476110 +0100
+++ new/include/linux/usb/serial.h 2009-12-23 09:06:32.870725683 +0100
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
#include <linux/kref.h>
#include <linux/mutex.h>
#include <linux/sysrq.h>
+#include <linux/kfifo.h>

#define SERIAL_TTY_MAJOR 188 /* Nice legal number now */
#define SERIAL_TTY_MINORS 254 /* loads of devices :) */
@@ -94,7 +95,7 @@ struct usb_serial_port {
unsigned char *bulk_out_buffer;
int bulk_out_size;
struct urb *write_urb;
- struct kfifo *write_fifo;
+ struct kfifo write_fifo;
int write_urb_busy;
__u8 bulk_out_endpointAddress;



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