[PATCH 3/3] [media] s5p-mfc: Fix race between s5p_mfc_probe() and s5p_mfc_open()

From: Javier Martinez Canillas
Date: Tue May 03 2016 - 16:28:35 EST


The s5p_mfc_probe() function registers the video devices before all the
resources needed by s5p_mfc_open() are correctly initalized.

So if s5p_mfc_open() function is called before s5p_mfc_probe() finishes
(since the video dev is already registered), a NULL pointer dereference
will happen due s5p_mfc_open() accessing uninitialized vars such as the
struct s5p_mfc_dev .watchdog_timer and .mfc_ops fields.

An example is following BUG caused by add_timer() getting a NULL pointer:

[ 45.765374] kernel BUG at kernel/time/timer.c:790!
[ 45.765381] Internal error: Oops - BUG: 0 [#1] PREEMPT SMP ARM
...
[ 45.766149] [<c016fdf4>] (mod_timer) from [<bf181d18>] (s5p_mfc_open+0x274/0x4d4 [s5p_mfc])
[ 45.766416] [<bf181d18>] (s5p_mfc_open [s5p_mfc]) from [<bf0214a0>] (v4l2_open+0x9c/0x100 [videodev])
[ 45.766547] [<bf0214a0>] (v4l2_open [videodev]) from [<c01e355c>] (chrdev_open+0x9c/0x178)
[ 45.766575] [<c01e355c>] (chrdev_open) from [<c01dceb4>] (do_dentry_open+0x1e0/0x300)
[ 45.766595] [<c01dceb4>] (do_dentry_open) from [<c01ec2f0>] (path_openat+0x800/0x10d4)
[ 45.766610] [<c01ec2f0>] (path_openat) from [<c01ed8b8>] (do_filp_open+0x5c/0xc0)
[ 45.766624] [<c01ed8b8>] (do_filp_open) from [<c01de218>] (do_sys_open+0x10c/0x1bc)
[ 45.766642] [<c01de218>] (do_sys_open) from [<c01078c0>] (ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x3c)
[ 45.766655] Code: eaffffe3 e3a00001 e28dd008 e8bd81f0 (e7f001f2)

Fix it by registering the video devs as the last step in s5p_mfc_probe().

Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---

drivers/media/platform/s5p-mfc/s5p_mfc.c | 39 +++++++++++++++++---------------
1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/media/platform/s5p-mfc/s5p_mfc.c b/drivers/media/platform/s5p-mfc/s5p_mfc.c
index beb4fd5bd326..501d822cad6b 100644
--- a/drivers/media/platform/s5p-mfc/s5p_mfc.c
+++ b/drivers/media/platform/s5p-mfc/s5p_mfc.c
@@ -1212,14 +1212,6 @@ static int s5p_mfc_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
vfd->vfl_dir = VFL_DIR_M2M;
snprintf(vfd->name, sizeof(vfd->name), "%s", S5P_MFC_DEC_NAME);
dev->vfd_dec = vfd;
- ret = video_register_device(vfd, VFL_TYPE_GRABBER, 0);
- if (ret) {
- v4l2_err(&dev->v4l2_dev, "Failed to register video device\n");
- video_device_release(vfd);
- goto err_dec_reg;
- }
- v4l2_info(&dev->v4l2_dev,
- "decoder registered as /dev/video%d\n", vfd->num);
video_set_drvdata(vfd, dev);

/* encoder */
@@ -1237,14 +1229,6 @@ static int s5p_mfc_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
vfd->vfl_dir = VFL_DIR_M2M;
snprintf(vfd->name, sizeof(vfd->name), "%s", S5P_MFC_ENC_NAME);
dev->vfd_enc = vfd;
- ret = video_register_device(vfd, VFL_TYPE_GRABBER, 0);
- if (ret) {
- v4l2_err(&dev->v4l2_dev, "Failed to register video device\n");
- video_device_release(vfd);
- goto err_enc_reg;
- }
- v4l2_info(&dev->v4l2_dev,
- "encoder registered as /dev/video%d\n", vfd->num);
video_set_drvdata(vfd, dev);
platform_set_drvdata(pdev, dev);

@@ -1261,15 +1245,34 @@ static int s5p_mfc_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
s5p_mfc_init_hw_cmds(dev);
s5p_mfc_init_regs(dev);

+ /* Register decoder and encoder */
+ ret = video_register_device(dev->vfd_dec, VFL_TYPE_GRABBER, 0);
+ if (ret) {
+ v4l2_err(&dev->v4l2_dev, "Failed to register video device\n");
+ video_device_release(dev->vfd_dec);
+ goto err_dec_reg;
+ }
+ v4l2_info(&dev->v4l2_dev,
+ "decoder registered as /dev/video%d\n", dev->vfd_dec->num);
+
+ ret = video_register_device(dev->vfd_enc, VFL_TYPE_GRABBER, 0);
+ if (ret) {
+ v4l2_err(&dev->v4l2_dev, "Failed to register video device\n");
+ video_device_release(dev->vfd_enc);
+ goto err_enc_reg;
+ }
+ v4l2_info(&dev->v4l2_dev,
+ "encoder registered as /dev/video%d\n", dev->vfd_enc->num);
+
pr_debug("%s--\n", __func__);
return 0;

/* Deinit MFC if probe had failed */
err_enc_reg:
- video_device_release(dev->vfd_enc);
-err_enc_alloc:
video_unregister_device(dev->vfd_dec);
err_dec_reg:
+ video_device_release(dev->vfd_enc);
+err_enc_alloc:
video_device_release(dev->vfd_dec);
err_dec_alloc:
v4l2_device_unregister(&dev->v4l2_dev);
--
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