Re: [PATCH] drm: assure aux_dev is nonzero before using it

[Ville Syrjälä]

On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 11:03:35AM -0400, Tony Camuso wrote:
> On 7/12/19 1:06 PM, Ville Syrjälä wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 12, 2019 at 12:07:46PM -0400, Tony Camuso wrote:
> >> On 7/10/19 9:56 AM, Ville Syrjälä wrote:
> >>> On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 09:47:11AM -0400, Tony Camuso wrote:
> >>>> On 5/24/19 4:36 AM, Jani Nikula wrote:
> >>>>> On Thu, 23 May 2019, tcamuso <tcamuso@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>>>>    From Daniel Kwon <dkwon@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> The system was crashed due to invalid memory access while trying to access
> >>>>>> auxiliary device.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> crash> bt
> >>>>>> PID: 9863   TASK: ffff89d1bdf11040  CPU: 1   COMMAND: "ipmitool"
> >>>>>>     #0 [ffff89cedd7f3868] machine_kexec at ffffffffb0663674
> >>>>>>     #1 [ffff89cedd7f38c8] __crash_kexec at ffffffffb071cf62
> >>>>>>     #2 [ffff89cedd7f3998] crash_kexec at ffffffffb071d050
> >>>>>>     #3 [ffff89cedd7f39b0] oops_end at ffffffffb0d6d758
> >>>>>>     #4 [ffff89cedd7f39d8] no_context at ffffffffb0d5bcde
> >>>>>>     #5 [ffff89cedd7f3a28] __bad_area_nosemaphore at ffffffffb0d5bd75
> >>>>>>     #6 [ffff89cedd7f3a78] bad_area at ffffffffb0d5c085
> >>>>>>     #7 [ffff89cedd7f3aa0] __do_page_fault at ffffffffb0d7080c
> >>>>>>     #8 [ffff89cedd7f3b10] do_page_fault at ffffffffb0d70905
> >>>>>>     #9 [ffff89cedd7f3b40] page_fault at ffffffffb0d6c758
> >>>>>>        [exception RIP: drm_dp_aux_dev_get_by_minor+0x3d]
> >>>>>>        RIP: ffffffffc0a589bd  RSP: ffff89cedd7f3bf0  RFLAGS: 00010246
> >>>>>>        RAX: 0000000000000000  RBX: 0000000000000000  RCX: ffff89cedd7f3fd8
> >>>>>>        RDX: 0000000000000000  RSI: 0000000000000000  RDI: ffffffffc0a613e0
> >>>>>>        RBP: ffff89cedd7f3bf8   R8: ffff89f1bcbabbd0   R9: 0000000000000000
> >>>>>>        R10: ffff89f1be7a1cc0  R11: 0000000000000000  R12: 0000000000000000
> >>>>>>        R13: ffff89f1b32a2830  R14: ffff89d18fadfa00  R15: 0000000000000000
> >>>>>>        ORIG_RAX: ffffffffffffffff  CS: 0010  SS: 0018
> >>>>>>        RIP: 00002b45f0d80d30  RSP: 00007ffc416066a0  RFLAGS: 00010246
> >>>>>>        RAX: 0000000000000002  RBX: 000056062e212d80  RCX: 00007ffc41606810
> >>>>>>        RDX: 0000000000000000  RSI: 0000000000000002  RDI: 00007ffc41606ec0
> >>>>>>        RBP: 0000000000000000   R8: 000056062dfed229   R9: 00002b45f0cdf14d
> >>>>>>        R10: 0000000000000002  R11: 0000000000000246  R12: 00007ffc41606ec0
> >>>>>>        R13: 00007ffc41606ed0  R14: 00007ffc41606ee0  R15: 0000000000000000
> >>>>>>        ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000002  CS: 0033  SS: 002b
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> It was trying to open '/dev/ipmi0', but as no entry in aux_dir, it returned
> >>>>>> NULL from 'idr_find()'. This drm_dp_aux_dev_get_by_minor() should have done a
> >>>>>> check on this, but had failed to do it.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I think the better question is, *why* does the idr_find() return NULL? I
> >>>>> don't think it should, under any circumstances. I fear adding the check
> >>>>> here papers over some other problem, taking us further away from the
> >>>>> root cause.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Also, can you reproduce this on a recent upstream kernel? The aux device
> >>>>> nodes were introduced in kernel v4.6. Whatever you reproduced on v3.10
> >>>>> is pretty much irrelevant for upstream.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> BR,
> >>>>> Jani.
> >>>>
> >>>> I have not been able to reproduce this problem.
> >>>
> >>> mknod /dev/foo c <drm_dp_aux major> 255
> >>> cat /dev/foo
> >>>
> >>> should do it.
> >>
> >> How do I determine <drm_dp_aux major>?
> > 
> > ls,file,stat. Take your pick.
> > 
> 
> Problem here is I can't ls,file,stat /dev/foo until after it's created,
> but I need to know the drm_dp_aux major number befroe I can use mknod.
> 
> What am I missing here?

udev/whatever should create a bunch of these for you so you can check
from them. If not, then dig around in /sys/class/drm_dp_aux_dev.

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Ville Syrjälä
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