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Message-ID: <0661f015-754e-a419-bbe0-8d1c4de57ad6@caviumnetworks.com>
Date:   Mon, 27 Aug 2018 11:37:11 +0530
From:   George Cherian <gcherian@...iumnetworks.com>
To:     minyard@....org, George Cherian <george.cherian@...ium.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        openipmi-developer@...ts.sourceforge.net
Cc:     arnd@...db.de, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] ipmi_ssif: Unregister i2c device only if created by
 ssif


Hi Corey,

On 08/24/2018 06:37 PM, Corey Minyard wrote:
> 
> On 08/24/2018 06:10 AM, George Cherian wrote:
>> In ssif_probe error path the i2c client is left hanging, so that
>> ssif_platform_remove will remove the client. But it is quite
>> possible that ssif would never call an i2c_new_device.
>> This condition would lead to kernel crash as below.
>> To fix this leave only the client ssif registered hanging in error
>> path. All other non-registered clients are set to NULL.
> 
> I'm having a hard time seeing how this could happen.
> 
> The i2c_new_device() call is only done in the case of dmi_ipmi_probe
> (called from
> ssif_platform_probe) or a hard-coded entry.  How does
> ssif_platform_remove get
> called on a device that was not registered with ssif_platform_probe?
> 

Initially I also had the same doubt but then,
ssif_adapter_hanlder is called for each i2c_dev only after initialized
is true. So we end up not calling i2c_new_device for devices probed
during the module_init time.

ssif_platform_remove() get called during removal of ipmi_ssif.
In case during ssif_probe() if there is a failure before
ipmi_smi_register then we leave the addr_info->client hanging.

In case of normal functioning without error, we set addr_info->client
to NULL after ipmi_unregiter_smi in ssif_remove.

> Small style comment inline...
I will make the changess and sent out a v2!!

Thanks,
-George
> 
>>   CPU: 107 PID: 30266 Comm: rmmod Not tainted 4.18.0+ #80
>>   Hardware name: Cavium Inc. Saber/Saber, BIOS Cavium reference 
>> firmware version 7.0 08/04/2018
>>   pstate: 60400009 (nZCv daif +PAN -UAO)
>>   pc : kernfs_find_ns+0x28/0x120
>>   lr : kernfs_find_and_get_ns+0x40/0x60
>>   sp : ffff00002310fb50
>>   x29: ffff00002310fb50 x28: ffff800a8240f800
>>   x27: 0000000000000000 x26: 0000000000000000
>>   x25: 0000000056000000 x24: ffff000009073000
>>   x23: ffff000008998b38 x22: 0000000000000000
>>   x21: ffff800ed86de820 x20: 0000000000000000
>>   x19: ffff00000913a1d8 x18: 0000000000000000
>>   x17: 0000000000000000 x16: 0000000000000000
>>   x15: 0000000000000000 x14: 5300737265766972
>>   x13: 643d4d4554535953 x12: 0000000000000030
>>   x11: 0000000000000030 x10: 0101010101010101
>>   x9 : ffff800ea06cc3f9 x8 : 0000000000000000
>>   x7 : 0000000000000141 x6 : ffff000009073000
>>   x5 : ffff800adb706b00 x4 : 0000000000000000
>>   x3 : 00000000ffffffff x2 : 0000000000000000
>>   x1 : ffff000008998b38 x0 : ffff000008356760
>>   Process rmmod (pid: 30266, stack limit = 0x00000000e218418d)
>>   Call trace:
>>    kernfs_find_ns+0x28/0x120
>>    kernfs_find_and_get_ns+0x40/0x60
>>    sysfs_unmerge_group+0x2c/0x6c
>>    dpm_sysfs_remove+0x34/0x70
>>    device_del+0x58/0x30c
>>    device_unregister+0x30/0x7c
>>    i2c_unregister_device+0x84/0x90 [i2c_core]
>>    ssif_platform_remove+0x38/0x98 [ipmi_ssif]
>>    platform_drv_remove+0x2c/0x6c
>>    device_release_driver_internal+0x168/0x1f8
>>    driver_detach+0x50/0xbc
>>    bus_remove_driver+0x74/0xe8
>>    driver_unregister+0x34/0x5c
>>    platform_driver_unregister+0x20/0x2c
>>    cleanup_ipmi_ssif+0x50/0xd82c [ipmi_ssif]
>>    __arm64_sys_delete_module+0x1b4/0x220
>>    el0_svc_handler+0x104/0x160
>>    el0_svc+0x8/0xc
>>   Code: aa1e03e0 aa0203f6 aa0103f7 d503201f (7940e280)
>>   ---[ end trace 09f0e34cce8e2d8c ]---
>>   Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception
>>   SMP: stopping secondary CPUs
>>   Kernel Offset: disabled
>>   CPU features: 0x23800c38
>>
>> Signed-off-by: George Cherian <george.cherian@...ium.com>
>> ---
>>   drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_ssif.c | 8 +++++++-
>>   1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_ssif.c 
>> b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_ssif.c
>> index 18e4650..ccdf6b1 100644
>> --- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_ssif.c
>> +++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_ssif.c
>> @@ -181,6 +181,7 @@ struct ssif_addr_info {
>>       struct device *dev;
>>       struct i2c_client *client;
>>
>> +     bool client_registered;
>>       struct mutex clients_mutex;
>>       struct list_head clients;
>>
>> @@ -1658,6 +1659,8 @@ static int ssif_probe(struct i2c_client *client, 
>> const struct i2c_device_id *id)
>>                * the client like it should.
>>                */
>>               dev_err(&client->dev, "Unable to start IPMI SSIF: %d\n", 
>> rv);
>> +             if (!addr_info->client_registered)
>> +                     addr_info->client = NULL;
>>               kfree(ssif_info);
>>       }
>>       kfree(resp);
>> @@ -1672,11 +1675,14 @@ static int ssif_probe(struct i2c_client 
>> *client, const struct i2c_device_id *id)
>>   static int ssif_adapter_handler(struct device *adev, void *opaque)
>>   {
>>       struct ssif_addr_info *addr_info = opaque;
>> +     struct i2c_client *client;
>>
>>       if (adev->type != &i2c_adapter_type)
>>               return 0;
>>
>> -     i2c_new_device(to_i2c_adapter(adev), &addr_info->binfo);
>> +     client = i2c_new_device(to_i2c_adapter(adev), &addr_info->binfo);
>> +     if (client)
>> +             addr_info->client_registered = true;
>>
> 
> How about..
>     if (i2c_new_device(to_i2c_adapter(adev), &addr_info->binfo))
>         addr_info->client_registered = true;
> 
> No need for the client variable.
> 
> -corey
> 
>>       if (!addr_info->adapter_name)
>>               return 1; /* Only try the first I2C adapter by default. */
> 
> 

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