Re: [PATCH v2] tty: serial: jsm: allocate queue buffer at probe time
From: Greg KH
Date: Sat Jun 05 2021 - 13:04:04 EST
On Sat, Jun 05, 2021 at 03:23:36PM +0000, Zheyu Ma wrote:
> In function 'neo_intr', the driver uses 'ch->ch_equeue' and
> 'ch->ch_reuque'. These two pointers are initialized in 'jsm_tty_open',
> but the interrupt handler 'neo_intr' has been registered in the probe
> progress. If 'jsm_tty_open' has not been called at this time, it will
> cause null pointer dereference.
>
> Once the driver registers the interrupt handler, the driver should be
> ready to handle it.
>
> Fix this by allocating the memory at probe time and not at open time.
>
> This log reveals it:
>
> [ 50.934983] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address:
> 0000000000000000
> [ 50.938297] #PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode
> [ 50.940075] #PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page
> [ 50.940460] PGD 0 P4D 0
> [ 50.940654] Oops: 0002 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI
> [ 50.940967] CPU: 2 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/2 Not tainted
> 5.12.4-g70e7f0549188-dirty #97
> [ 50.941554] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009),
> BIOS rel-1.12.0-59-gc9ba5276e321-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
> [ 50.942419] RIP: 0010:memcpy_fromio+0x75/0xa0
> [ 50.942759] Code: e9 02 f3 a5 41 f6 c5 02 74 02 66 a5 41 f6 c5 01 74
> 01 a4 e8 5d 93 6b ff 5b 41 5c 41 5d 5d c3 e8 51 93 6b ff 4c 89 e7 48 89
> de <a4> 49 89 fc 48 89 f3 49 83 ed 01 eb a4 e8 39 93 6b ff 4c 89 e7 48
> [ 50.944158] RSP: 0018:ffffc90000118df8 EFLAGS: 00010046
> [ 50.944559] RAX: ffff888100258000 RBX: ffffc90007f0030f
> RCX: 0000000000000000
> [ 50.945114] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffc90007f0030f
> RDI: 0000000000000000
> [ 50.945652] RBP: ffffc90000118e10 R08: 0000000000000000
> R09: 0000000000000000
> [ 50.946192] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000001
> R12: 0000000000000000
> [ 50.946729] R13: 0000000000000001 R14: 0000000007f0021e
> R15: 0000000000000000
> [ 50.947279] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88817bc80000(0000)
> knlGS:0000000000000000
> [ 50.947912] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
> [ 50.948346] CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 0000000107950000
> CR4: 00000000000006e0
> [ 50.948892] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000
> DR2: 0000000000000000
> [ 50.949429] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0
> DR7: 0000000000000400
Please do not line-wrap these types of lines.
> [ 50.949950] Call Trace:
> [ 50.950138] <IRQ>
> [ 50.950292] neo_copy_data_from_uart_to_queue+0x2f7/0x4e0
> [ 50.950694] neo_intr+0x253/0x7a0
> [ 50.950975] __handle_irq_event_percpu+0x53/0x3e0
> [ 50.951352] handle_irq_event_percpu+0x35/0x90
> [ 50.951706] handle_irq_event+0x39/0x60
> [ 50.951999] handle_fasteoi_irq+0xc2/0x1d0
> [ 50.952319] __common_interrupt+0x7f/0x150
> [ 50.952638] common_interrupt+0xb4/0xd0
> [ 50.952954] </IRQ>
> [ 50.953136] asm_common_interrupt+0x1e/0x40
> [ 50.969513] Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt
> [ 50.970151] Dumping ftrace buffer:
> [ 50.970420] (ftrace buffer empty)
> [ 50.970693] Kernel Offset: disabled
> [ 50.970968] Rebooting in 1 seconds..
>
> Signed-off-by: Zheyu Ma <zheyuma97@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Changes in v2:
> - Allocate the memory at probe time, instead of simply checking whether it
> is a null pointer.
> ---
> drivers/tty/serial/jsm/jsm_tty.c | 64 +++++++++++++-------------------
> 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/jsm/jsm_tty.c b/drivers/tty/serial/jsm/jsm_tty.c
> index 8e42a7682c63..1c77c982daaf 100644
> --- a/drivers/tty/serial/jsm/jsm_tty.c
> +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/jsm/jsm_tty.c
> @@ -195,44 +195,6 @@ static int jsm_tty_open(struct uart_port *port)
> /* Get board pointer from our array of majors we have allocated */
> brd = channel->ch_bd;
>
> - /*
> - * Allocate channel buffers for read/write/error.
> - * Set flag, so we don't get trounced on.
> - */
> - channel->ch_flags |= (CH_OPENING);
> -
> - /* Drop locks, as malloc with GFP_KERNEL can sleep */
> -
> - if (!channel->ch_rqueue) {
> - channel->ch_rqueue = kzalloc(RQUEUESIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
> - if (!channel->ch_rqueue) {
> - jsm_dbg(INIT, &channel->ch_bd->pci_dev,
> - "unable to allocate read queue buf\n");
> - return -ENOMEM;
> - }
> - }
> - if (!channel->ch_equeue) {
> - channel->ch_equeue = kzalloc(EQUEUESIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
> - if (!channel->ch_equeue) {
> - jsm_dbg(INIT, &channel->ch_bd->pci_dev,
> - "unable to allocate error queue buf\n");
> - return -ENOMEM;
> - }
> - }
> -
> - channel->ch_flags &= ~(CH_OPENING);
> - /*
> - * Initialize if neither terminal is open.
> - */
> - jsm_dbg(OPEN, &channel->ch_bd->pci_dev,
> - "jsm_open: initializing channel in open...\n");
> -
> - /*
> - * Flush input queues.
> - */
> - channel->ch_r_head = channel->ch_r_tail = 0;
> - channel->ch_e_head = channel->ch_e_tail = 0;
> -
> brd->bd_ops->flush_uart_write(channel);
> brd->bd_ops->flush_uart_read(channel);
>
> @@ -420,6 +382,32 @@ int jsm_tty_init(struct jsm_board *brd)
> ch->ch_close_delay = 250;
>
> init_waitqueue_head(&ch->ch_flags_wait);
> +
> + /*
> + * Allocate channel buffers for read/write/error.
> + * Set flag, so we don't get trounced on.
> + */
> + ch->ch_flags |= (CH_OPENING);
But you are not opening the device at this point in time.
Did you test this?
> +
> + /* Drop locks, as malloc with GFP_KERNEL can sleep */
What locks got dropped?
> +
> + if (!ch->ch_rqueue) {
> + ch->ch_rqueue = kzalloc(RQUEUESIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
> + if (!ch->ch_rqueue)
> + return -ENOMEM;
> + }
> + if (!ch->ch_equeue) {
> + ch->ch_equeue = kzalloc(EQUEUESIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
> + if (!ch->ch_equeue)
> + return -ENOMEM;
> + }
> +
> + ch->ch_flags &= ~(CH_OPENING);
Again, you are not opening right now.
> + /*
> + * Flush input queues.
> + */
> + ch->ch_r_head = ch->ch_r_tail = 0;
> + ch->ch_e_head = ch->ch_e_tail = 0;
Are you sure this is ok for probe time?
thanks,
greg k-h