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Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2022 10:51:22 +0000
From: Joel Stanley <joel@....id.au>
To: Heyi Guo <guoheyi@...ux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@...gle.com>,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
Andrew Jeffery <andrew@...id.au>,
Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@...gutronix.de>,
"open list:I2C SUBSYSTEM HOST DRIVERS" <linux-i2c@...r.kernel.org>,
OpenBMC Maillist <openbmc@...ts.ozlabs.org>,
Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
linux-aspeed <linux-aspeed@...ts.ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers/i2c-aspeed: avoid invalid memory reference after timeout
On Tue, 11 Jan 2022 at 07:52, Heyi Guo <guoheyi@...ux.alibaba.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Any comments?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Heyi
>
> 在 2022/1/9 下午9:26, Heyi Guo 写道:
> > The memory will be freed by the caller if transfer timeout occurs,
> > then it would trigger kernel panic if the peer device responds with
> > something after timeout and triggers the interrupt handler of aspeed
> > i2c driver.
> >
> > Set the msgs pointer to NULL to avoid invalid memory reference after
> > timeout to fix this potential kernel panic.
Thanks for the patch. How did you discover this issue? Do you have a
test I can run to reproduce the crash?
Can you provide a Fixes tag?
Do other i2c master drivers do this? I took a quick look at the meson
driver and it doesn't appear to clear it's pointer to msgs.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Heyi Guo <guoheyi@...ux.alibaba.com>
> >
> > -------
> >
> > Cc: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@...gle.com>
> > Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
> > Cc: Joel Stanley <joel@....id.au>
> > Cc: Andrew Jeffery <andrew@...id.au>
> > Cc: Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@...gutronix.de>
> > Cc: linux-i2c@...r.kernel.org
> > Cc: openbmc@...ts.ozlabs.org
> > Cc: linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
> > Cc: linux-aspeed@...ts.ozlabs.org
> > ---
> > drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-aspeed.c | 5 +++++
> > 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-aspeed.c b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-aspeed.c
> > index 67e8b97c0c950..3ab0396168680 100644
> > --- a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-aspeed.c
> > +++ b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-aspeed.c
> > @@ -708,6 +708,11 @@ static int aspeed_i2c_master_xfer(struct i2c_adapter *adap,
> > spin_lock_irqsave(&bus->lock, flags);
> > if (bus->master_state == ASPEED_I2C_MASTER_PENDING)
> > bus->master_state = ASPEED_I2C_MASTER_INACTIVE;
> > + /*
> > + * All the buffers may be freed after returning to caller, so
> > + * set msgs to NULL to avoid memory reference after freeing.
> > + */
> > + bus->msgs = NULL;
> > spin_unlock_irqrestore(&bus->lock, flags);
> >
> > return -ETIMEDOUT;
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