linux-kernel - Possible null pointer dereference in rcar-dmac.ko

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Date:   Tue, 8 Aug 2017 15:09:39 +0300
From:   Anton Volkov <avolkov@...ras.ru>
To:     niklas.soderlund+renesas@...natech.se, geert+renesas@...der.be,
        kuninori.morimoto.gx@...esas.com
Cc:     vinod.koul@...el.com, dmaengine@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, ldv-project@...uxtesting.org,
        Alexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov@...ras.ru>
Subject: Possible null pointer dereference in rcar-dmac.ko

Hello.

While searching for races in the Linux kernel I've come across 
"drivers/dma/sh/rcar-dmac.ko" module. Here is a question that I came up 
with while analyzing results. Lines are given using the info from Linux 
v4.12.

Consider the following case:

Thread 1:                            Thread 2:
rcar_dmac_probe
->rcar_dmac_chan_probe
              (&dmac->channels[i])
     rchan = &dmac->channels[i]
     chan = &rchan->chan
     devm_request_threaded_irq(rchan)
     chan->device = &dmac->engine    rcar_dmac_isr_channel
                                     ->rcar_dmac_isr_transfer_end(chan)
                                       ->rcar_dmac_chan_start_xfer(chan)
   engine->dev = &pdev->dev;               <READ chan->chan.device->dev>
   (rcar-dmac.c: line 1828)                (rcar-dmac.c: line 351)

As far as I understand engine->dev is NULL before its initialization in 
probe. Thus there might be a NULL pointer dereference in 
rcar_dmac_chan_start_xfer while accessing chan->chan.device->dev which 
is equal to (&dmac->engine)->dev. Is this possible from your point of view?

Thank you for your time.

-- Anton Volkov
Linux Verification Center, ISPRAS
web: http://linuxtesting.org
e-mail: avolkov@...ras.ru