Re: [PATCH V4] mtd: Fix gluebi NULL pointer dereference caused by ftl notifier

[Miquel Raynal]

On Wed, 2023-12-20 at 02:46:19 UTC, ZhaoLong Wang wrote:
> If both ftl.ko and gluebi.ko are loaded, the notifier of ftl
> triggers NULL pointer dereference when trying to access
> ‘gluebi->desc’ in gluebi_read().
> 
> ubi_gluebi_init
>   ubi_register_volume_notifier
>     ubi_enumerate_volumes
>       ubi_notify_all
>         gluebi_notify    nb->notifier_call()
>           gluebi_create
>             mtd_device_register
>               mtd_device_parse_register
>                 add_mtd_device
>                   blktrans_notify_add   not->add()
>                     ftl_add_mtd         tr->add_mtd()
>                       scan_header
>                         mtd_read
>                           mtd_read_oob
>                             mtd_read_oob_std
>                               gluebi_read   mtd->read()
>                                 gluebi->desc - NULL
> 
> Detailed reproduction information available at the Link [1],
> 
> In the normal case, obtain gluebi->desc in the gluebi_get_device(),
> and access gluebi->desc in the gluebi_read(). However,
> gluebi_get_device() is not executed in advance in the
> ftl_add_mtd() process, which leads to NULL pointer dereference.
> 
> The solution for the gluebi module is to run jffs2 on the UBI
> volume without considering working with ftl or mtdblock [2].
> Therefore, this problem can be avoided by preventing gluebi from
> creating the mtdblock device after creating mtd partition of the
> type MTD_UBIVOLUME.
> 
> Fixes: 2ba3d76a1e29 ("UBI: make gluebi a separate module")
> Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217992 [1]
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/441107100.23734.1697904580252.JavaMail.zimbra@xxxxxx/ [2]
> Signed-off-by: ZhaoLong Wang <wangzhaolong1@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Zhihao Cheng <chengzhihao1@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx>

Applied to https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mtd/linux.git mtd/next, thanks.

Miquel