[PATCH v2] iommu/arm-smmu: Defer probe of clients after smmu device bound

From: Pratyush Brahma
Date: Fri Oct 04 2024 - 05:05:15 EST


Null pointer dereference occurs due to a race between smmu
driver probe and client driver probe, when of_dma_configure()
for client is called after the iommu_device_register() for smmu driver
probe has executed but before the driver_bound() for smmu driver
has been called.

Following is how the race occurs:

T1:Smmu device probe T2: Client device probe

really_probe()
arm_smmu_device_probe()
iommu_device_register()
really_probe()
platform_dma_configure()
of_dma_configure()
of_dma_configure_id()
of_iommu_configure()
iommu_probe_device()
iommu_init_device()
arm_smmu_probe_device()
arm_smmu_get_by_fwnode()
driver_find_device_by_fwnode()
driver_find_device()
next_device()
klist_next()
/* null ptr
assigned to smmu */
/* null ptr dereference
while smmu->streamid_mask */
driver_bound()
klist_add_tail()

When this null smmu pointer is dereferenced later in
arm_smmu_probe_device, the device crashes.

Fix this by deferring the probe of the client device
until the smmu device has bound to the arm smmu driver.

Fixes: 021bb8420d44 ("iommu/arm-smmu: Wire up generic configuration support")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Co-developed-by: Prakash Gupta <quic_guptap@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Prakash Gupta <quic_guptap@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Pratyush Brahma <quic_pbrahma@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Changes in v2:
Fix kernel test robot warning
Add stable kernel list in cc
Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241001055633.21062-1-quic_pbrahma@xxxxxxxxxxx/

drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu/arm-smmu.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu/arm-smmu.c b/drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu/arm-smmu.c
index 723273440c21..7c778b7eb8c8 100644
--- a/drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu/arm-smmu.c
+++ b/drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu/arm-smmu.c
@@ -1437,6 +1437,9 @@ static struct iommu_device *arm_smmu_probe_device(struct device *dev)
goto out_free;
} else {
smmu = arm_smmu_get_by_fwnode(fwspec->iommu_fwnode);
+ if (!smmu)
+ return ERR_PTR(dev_err_probe(dev, -EPROBE_DEFER,
+ "smmu dev has not bound yet\n"));
}

ret = -EINVAL;
--
2.17.1