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Date:   Wed, 17 Jan 2018 10:49:29 -0600
From:   Corey Minyard <minyard@....org>
To:     John Garry <john.garry@...wei.com>,
        openipmi-developer@...ts.sourceforge.net
Cc:     linuxarm@...wei.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipmi: use dynamic memory for DMI driver override

On 01/17/2018 10:36 AM, John Garry wrote:
> Currently a crash can be seen if we reach the "err"
> label in dmi_add_platform_ipmi(), calling
> platform_device_put(), like here:
> [    7.270584]  (null): ipmi:dmi: Unable to add resources: -16
> [    7.330229] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> [    7.334889] kernel BUG at mm/slub.c:3894!
> [    7.338936] Internal error: Oops - BUG: 0 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
> [    7.344475] Modules linked in:
> [    7.347556] CPU: 1 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 4.15.0-rc2-00004-gbe9cb7b-dirty #114
> [    7.355907] Hardware name: Huawei Taishan 2280 /D05, BIOS Hisilicon D05 IT17 Nemo 2.0 RC0 11/29/2017
> [    7.365137] task: 00000000c211f6d3 task.stack: 00000000f276e9af
> [    7.371116] pstate: 60000005 (nZCv daif -PAN -UAO)
> [    7.375957] pc : kfree+0x194/0x1b4
> [    7.379389] lr : platform_device_release+0xcc/0xd8
> [    7.384225] sp : ffff0000092dba90
> [    7.387567] x29: ffff0000092dba90 x28: ffff000008a83000
> [    7.392933] x27: ffff0000092dbc10 x26: 00000000000000e6
> [    7.398297] x25: 0000000000000003 x24: ffff0000085b51e8
> [    7.403662] x23: 0000000000000100 x22: ffff7e0000234cc0
> [    7.409027] x21: ffff000008af3660 x20: ffff8017d21acc10
> [    7.414392] x19: ffff8017d21acc00 x18: 0000000000000002
> [    7.419757] x17: 0000000000000001 x16: 0000000000000008
> [    7.425121] x15: 0000000000000001 x14: 6666666678303d65
> [    7.430486] x13: 6469727265766f5f x12: 7265766972642e76
> [    7.435850] x11: 6564703e2d617020 x10: 6530326435373638
> [    7.441215] x9 : 3030303030303030 x8 : 3d76656420657361
> [    7.446580] x7 : ffff000008f59df8 x6 : ffff8017fbe0ea50
> [    7.451945] x5 : 0000000000000000 x4 : 0000000000000000
> [    7.457309] x3 : ffffffffffffffff x2 : 0000000000000000
> [    7.462674] x1 : 0fffc00000000800 x0 : ffff7e0000234ce0
> [    7.468039] Process swapper/0 (pid: 1, stack limit = 0x00000000f276e9af)
> [    7.474809] Call trace:
> [    7.477272]  kfree+0x194/0x1b4
> [    7.480351]  platform_device_release+0xcc/0xd8
> [    7.484837]  device_release+0x34/0x90
> [    7.488531]  kobject_put+0x70/0xcc
> [    7.491961]  put_device+0x14/0x1c
> [    7.495304]  platform_device_put+0x14/0x1c
> [    7.499439]  dmi_add_platform_ipmi+0x348/0x3ac
> [    7.503923]  scan_for_dmi_ipmi+0xfc/0x10c
> [    7.507970]  do_one_initcall+0x38/0x124
> [    7.511840]  kernel_init_freeable+0x188/0x228
> [    7.516238]  kernel_init+0x10/0x100
> [    7.519756]  ret_from_fork+0x10/0x18
> [    7.523362] Code: f94002c0 37780080 f94012c0 37000040 (d4210000)
> [    7.529552] ---[ end trace 11750e4787deef9e ]---
> [    7.534228] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x0000000b
> [    7.534228]
>
> This is because when the device is released in
> platform_device_release(), we try to free
> pdev.driver_override. This is a const string, hence
> the crash.
> Fix by using dynamic memory for pdev->driver_override.
>
> Signed-off-by: John Garry <john.garry@...wei.com>

Oops, sorry about that.  Yes, queued for the next release and 4.14.x.

-corey

>
> diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_dmi.c b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_dmi.c
> index ab78b3b..c5112b1 100644
> --- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_dmi.c
> +++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_dmi.c
> @@ -106,7 +106,10 @@ static void __init dmi_add_platform_ipmi(unsigned long base_addr,
>   		pr_err("ipmi:dmi: Error allocation IPMI platform device\n");
>   		return;
>   	}
> -	pdev->driver_override = override;
> +	pdev->driver_override = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "%s",
> +					  override);
> +	if (!pdev->driver_override)
> +		goto err;
>   
>   	if (type == IPMI_DMI_TYPE_SSIF) {
>   		set_prop_entry(p[pidx++], "i2c-addr", u16, base_addr);
> diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
> index 779869e..2a19aa8 100644
> --- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
> +++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
> @@ -2426,6 +2426,7 @@ int ipmi_si_remove_by_dev(struct device *dev)
>   {
>   	struct smi_info *e;
>   	int rv = -ENOENT;
> +	struct platform_device *pdev = to_platform_device(dev);
>   
>   	mutex_lock(&smi_infos_lock);
>   	list_for_each_entry(e, &smi_infos, link) {
> @@ -2436,6 +2437,7 @@ int ipmi_si_remove_by_dev(struct device *dev)
>   		}
>   	}
>   	mutex_unlock(&smi_infos_lock);
> +	kfree(pdev->driver_override);
>   
>   	return rv;
>   }