Re: [PATCH] media: vsp1: dl: Fix NULL pointer dereference on unbind

[Eugeniu Rosca]

Hi Kieran,

On Mon, May 25, 2020 at 02:19:02PM +0100, Kieran Bingham wrote:
> Hi Eugeniu,
> 
> Yeouch. Looks like I really missed a trick there!

Not a big deal. The good part is that it can be proactively fixed and
shared across the community.

> 
> We should probably update the $SUBJECT to match what is performed in the
> patch, which is perhaps more like:
> 
> "media: vsp1: dl: Store VSP reference when creating cmd pools"

To be honest, I am not a big fan of WHAT summary lines.
Rather, I prefer the WHY summary lines (and I think everyone should).

> 
> On 23/05/2020 09:13, Eugeniu Rosca wrote:
> 
> And then we can explain here:
> 
> In commit f3b98e3c4d2e16 ("media: vsp1: Provide support for extended
> command pools"), the vsp pointer used for referencing the VSP1 device
> structure from a command pool during vsp1_dl_ext_cmd_pool_destroy() was
> not populated.
> 
> Correctly assign the pointer to prevent the following
> null-pointer-dereference when removing the device:

That sounds good and I can push this improved description as v2.

> > Fixes: f3b98e3c4d2e16 ("media: vsp1: Provide support for extended command pools")
> > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # v4.19+
> > Signed-off-by: Eugeniu Rosca <erosca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Reviewed-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> > ---
> > 
> > How about adding a new unit test perfoming unbind/rebind to
> > http://git.ideasonboard.com/renesas/vsp-tests.git, to avoid
> > such issues in future? 
> 
> Yes, now I wish I had done so back at 4.19! I hope this wasn't too
> painful to diagnose and fix, and thank you for being so thorough in your
> report!
> 
> 
> > Locally, below command has been used to identify the problem:
> > 
> > for f in $(find /sys/bus/platform/devices/ -name "*vsp*" -o -name "*fdp*"); do \
> >      b=$(basename $f); \
> >      echo $b > $f/driver/unbind; \
> > done
> > 
> 
> I've created a test to add to vsp-tests, which I'll post next, thank you
> for the suggestion.
> 
> Before your patch is applied, I experience the same crash you have seen,
> and after your patch - I can successfully unbind/bind all of the VSP1
> instances.
> 
> So I think you can have this too:
> 
> Tested-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Awesome. Thanks!

-- 
Best regards,
Eugeniu Rosca