linux-kernel - [PATCH 3/3] media: venus: don't de-reference NULL pointers at IRQ time

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Date:   Thu,  8 Apr 2021 09:40:04 +0200
From:   Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>
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Cc:     linuxarm@...wei.com, mauro.chehab@...wei.com,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>,
        Andy Gross <agross@...nel.org>,
        Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@...aro.org>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>,
        Stanimir Varbanov <stanimir.varbanov@...aro.org>,
        linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-media@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] media: venus: don't de-reference NULL pointers at IRQ time

Smatch is warning that:
	drivers/media/platform/qcom/venus/hfi_venus.c:1100 venus_isr() warn: variable dereferenced before check 'hdev' (see line 1097)

The logic basically does:
	hdev = to_hfi_priv(core);

with is translated to:
	hdev = core->priv;

If the IRQ code can receive a NULL pointer for hdev, there's
a bug there, as it will first try to de-reference the pointer,
and then check if it is null.

After looking at the code, it seems that this indeed can happen:
Basically, the venus IRQ thread is started with:
	devm_request_threaded_irq()
So, it will only be freed after the driver unbinds.

In order to prevent the IRQ code to work with freed data,
the logic at venus_hfi_destroy() sets core->priv to NULL,
which would make the IRQ code to ignore any pending IRQs.

There is, however a race condition, as core->priv is set
to NULL only after being freed. So, we need also to move the
core->priv = NULL to happen earlier.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>
---
 drivers/media/platform/qcom/venus/hfi_venus.c | 9 ++++++---
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/media/platform/qcom/venus/hfi_venus.c b/drivers/media/platform/qcom/venus/hfi_venus.c
index cebb20cf371f..ce98c523b3c6 100644
--- a/drivers/media/platform/qcom/venus/hfi_venus.c
+++ b/drivers/media/platform/qcom/venus/hfi_venus.c
@@ -1094,12 +1094,15 @@ static irqreturn_t venus_isr(struct venus_core *core)
 {
 	struct venus_hfi_device *hdev = to_hfi_priv(core);
 	u32 status;
-	void __iomem *cpu_cs_base = hdev->core->cpu_cs_base;
-	void __iomem *wrapper_base = hdev->core->wrapper_base;
+	void __iomem *cpu_cs_base;
+	void __iomem *wrapper_base;
 
 	if (!hdev)
 		return IRQ_NONE;
 
+	cpu_cs_base = hdev->core->cpu_cs_base;
+	wrapper_base = hdev->core->wrapper_base;
+
 	status = readl(wrapper_base + WRAPPER_INTR_STATUS);
 	if (IS_V6(core)) {
 		if (status & WRAPPER_INTR_STATUS_A2H_MASK ||
@@ -1650,10 +1653,10 @@ void venus_hfi_destroy(struct venus_core *core)
 {
 	struct venus_hfi_device *hdev = to_hfi_priv(core);
 
+	core->priv = NULL;
 	venus_interface_queues_release(hdev);
 	mutex_destroy(&hdev->lock);
 	kfree(hdev);
-	core->priv = NULL;
 	core->ops = NULL;
 }
 
-- 
2.30.2