linux-kernel - [PATCH] coresight: access conn->child

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Message-Id: <1466071989-24663-1-git-send-email-sudeep.holla@arm.com>
Date:	Thu, 16 Jun 2016 11:13:09 +0100
From:	Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@....com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@...aro.org>
Cc:	Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@....com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@....com>
Subject: [PATCH] coresight: access conn->child_name only if it's initialised

If the addition of the coresight devices get deferred, then there's a
window before child_name is populated by of_get_coresight_platform_data
from the respective component driver's probe and the attempted to access
the same from coresight_orphan_match resulting in kernel NULL pointer
dereference as below:

Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0x0
Internal error: Oops: 96000004 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 PID: 1038 Comm: kworker/0:1 Not tainted 4.7.0-rc3 #124
Hardware name: ARM Juno development board (r2) (DT)
Workqueue: events amba_deferred_retry_func
PC is at strcmp+0x1c/0x160
LR is at coresight_orphan_match+0x7c/0xd0
Call trace:
 strcmp+0x1c/0x160
 bus_for_each_dev+0x60/0xa0
 coresight_register+0x264/0x2e0
 tmc_probe+0x130/0x310
 amba_probe+0xd4/0x1c8
 driver_probe_device+0x22c/0x418
 __device_attach_driver+0xbc/0x158
 bus_for_each_drv+0x58/0x98
 __device_attach+0xc4/0x160
 device_initial_probe+0x10/0x18
 bus_probe_device+0x94/0xa0
 device_add+0x344/0x580
 amba_device_try_add+0x194/0x238
 amba_deferred_retry_func+0x48/0xd0
 process_one_work+0x118/0x378
 worker_thread+0x48/0x498
 kthread+0xd0/0xe8
 ret_from_fork+0x10/0x40

This patch adds a check for non-NULL conn->child_name before accessing
the same.

Cc: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@...aro.org>
Signed-off-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@....com>
---
 drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight.c b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight.c
index 5443d03a1eec..12ca4cd97f5b 100644
--- a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight.c
+++ b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight.c
@@ -722,7 +722,8 @@ static int coresight_orphan_match(struct device *dev, void *data)
 		/* We have found at least one orphan connection */
 		if (conn->child_dev == NULL) {
 			/* Does it match this newly added device? */
-			if (!strcmp(dev_name(&csdev->dev), conn->child_name)) {
+			if (conn->child_name &&
+			    !strcmp(dev_name(&csdev->dev), conn->child_name)) {
 				conn->child_dev = csdev;
 			} else {
 				/* This component still has an orphan */
-- 
2.7.4