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Message-ID: <374b7e4e-40a2-f3c0-ae14-c533bd42243f@redhat.com>
Date:   Fri, 12 Jul 2019 12:07:46 -0400
From:   Tony Camuso <tcamuso@...hat.com>
To:     Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@...ux.intel.com>,
        dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        airlied@...ux.ie, dkwon@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm: assure aux_dev is nonzero before using it

On 7/10/19 9:56 AM, Ville Syrjälä wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 09:47:11AM -0400, Tony Camuso wrote:
>> On 5/24/19 4:36 AM, Jani Nikula wrote:
>>> On Thu, 23 May 2019, tcamuso <tcamuso@...hat.com> wrote:
>>>>   From Daniel Kwon <dkwon@...hat.com>
>>>>
>>>> The system was crashed due to invalid memory access while trying to access
>>>> auxiliary device.
>>>>
>>>> crash> bt
>>>> PID: 9863   TASK: ffff89d1bdf11040  CPU: 1   COMMAND: "ipmitool"
>>>>    #0 [ffff89cedd7f3868] machine_kexec at ffffffffb0663674
>>>>    #1 [ffff89cedd7f38c8] __crash_kexec at ffffffffb071cf62
>>>>    #2 [ffff89cedd7f3998] crash_kexec at ffffffffb071d050
>>>>    #3 [ffff89cedd7f39b0] oops_end at ffffffffb0d6d758
>>>>    #4 [ffff89cedd7f39d8] no_context at ffffffffb0d5bcde
>>>>    #5 [ffff89cedd7f3a28] __bad_area_nosemaphore at ffffffffb0d5bd75
>>>>    #6 [ffff89cedd7f3a78] bad_area at ffffffffb0d5c085
>>>>    #7 [ffff89cedd7f3aa0] __do_page_fault at ffffffffb0d7080c
>>>>    #8 [ffff89cedd7f3b10] do_page_fault at ffffffffb0d70905
>>>>    #9 [ffff89cedd7f3b40] page_fault at ffffffffb0d6c758
>>>>       [exception RIP: drm_dp_aux_dev_get_by_minor+0x3d]
>>>>       RIP: ffffffffc0a589bd  RSP: ffff89cedd7f3bf0  RFLAGS: 00010246
>>>>       RAX: 0000000000000000  RBX: 0000000000000000  RCX: ffff89cedd7f3fd8
>>>>       RDX: 0000000000000000  RSI: 0000000000000000  RDI: ffffffffc0a613e0
>>>>       RBP: ffff89cedd7f3bf8   R8: ffff89f1bcbabbd0   R9: 0000000000000000
>>>>       R10: ffff89f1be7a1cc0  R11: 0000000000000000  R12: 0000000000000000
>>>>       R13: ffff89f1b32a2830  R14: ffff89d18fadfa00  R15: 0000000000000000
>>>>       ORIG_RAX: ffffffffffffffff  CS: 0010  SS: 0018
>>>>       RIP: 00002b45f0d80d30  RSP: 00007ffc416066a0  RFLAGS: 00010246
>>>>       RAX: 0000000000000002  RBX: 000056062e212d80  RCX: 00007ffc41606810
>>>>       RDX: 0000000000000000  RSI: 0000000000000002  RDI: 00007ffc41606ec0
>>>>       RBP: 0000000000000000   R8: 000056062dfed229   R9: 00002b45f0cdf14d
>>>>       R10: 0000000000000002  R11: 0000000000000246  R12: 00007ffc41606ec0
>>>>       R13: 00007ffc41606ed0  R14: 00007ffc41606ee0  R15: 0000000000000000
>>>>       ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000002  CS: 0033  SS: 002b
>>>>
>>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>
>>>> It was trying to open '/dev/ipmi0', but as no entry in aux_dir, it returned
>>>> NULL from 'idr_find()'. This drm_dp_aux_dev_get_by_minor() should have done a
>>>> check on this, but had failed to do it.
>>>
>>> I think the better question is, *why* does the idr_find() return NULL? I
>>> don't think it should, under any circumstances. I fear adding the check
>>> here papers over some other problem, taking us further away from the
>>> root cause.
>>>
>>> Also, can you reproduce this on a recent upstream kernel? The aux device
>>> nodes were introduced in kernel v4.6. Whatever you reproduced on v3.10
>>> is pretty much irrelevant for upstream.
>>>
>>>
>>> BR,
>>> Jani.
>>
>> I have not been able to reproduce this problem.
> 
> mknod /dev/foo c <drm_dp_aux major> 255
> cat /dev/foo
> 
> should do it.

How do I determine <drm_dp_aux major>?

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