linux-kernel - [PATCH] kernel/dma: Fix panic caused by passing swiotlb to command line

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Message-ID: <1537154831-447363-1-git-send-email-zhe.he@windriver.com>
Date:   Mon, 17 Sep 2018 11:27:11 +0800
From:   <zhe.he@...driver.com>
To:     <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>, <hch@....de>, <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>,
        <robin.murphy@....com>, <iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
CC:     <zhe.he@...driver.com>
Subject: [PATCH] kernel/dma: Fix panic caused by passing swiotlb to command line

From: He Zhe <zhe.he@...driver.com>

setup_io_tlb_npages does not check input argument before passing it
to isdigit. The argument would be a NULL pointer if "swiotlb", without
its value, is set in command line and thus causes the following panic.

PANIC: early exception 0xe3 IP 10:ffffffffbb9b8e9f error 0 cr2 0x0
[    0.000000] CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 4.19.0-rc3-yocto-standard+ #9
[    0.000000] RIP: 0010:setup_io_tlb_npages+0xf/0x95
...
[    0.000000] Call Trace:
[    0.000000]  do_early_param+0x57/0x8e
[    0.000000]  parse_args+0x208/0x320
[    0.000000]  ? rdinit_setup+0x30/0x30
[    0.000000]  parse_early_options+0x29/0x2d
[    0.000000]  ? rdinit_setup+0x30/0x30
[    0.000000]  parse_early_param+0x36/0x4d
[    0.000000]  setup_arch+0x336/0x99e
[    0.000000]  start_kernel+0x6f/0x4e6
[    0.000000]  x86_64_start_reservations+0x24/0x26
[    0.000000]  x86_64_start_kernel+0x6f/0x72
[    0.000000]  secondary_startup_64+0xa4/0xb0

This patch adds a check to prevent the panic.

Signed-off-by: He Zhe <zhe.he@...driver.com>
Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
Cc: konrad.wilk@...cle.com
Cc: hch@....de
Cc: m.szyprowski@...sung.com
Cc: robin.murphy@....com
---
 kernel/dma/swiotlb.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/dma/swiotlb.c b/kernel/dma/swiotlb.c
index 4f8a6db..46fc34e 100644
--- a/kernel/dma/swiotlb.c
+++ b/kernel/dma/swiotlb.c
@@ -109,6 +109,11 @@ static int late_alloc;
 static int __init
 setup_io_tlb_npages(char *str)
 {
+	if (!str) {
+		pr_err("Config string not provided\n");
+		return -EINVAL;
+	}
+
 	if (isdigit(*str)) {
 		io_tlb_nslabs = simple_strtoul(str, &str, 0);
 		/* avoid tail segment of size < IO_TLB_SEGSIZE */
-- 
2.7.4