linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] zram: fix NULL pointer in comp_algorithm

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Message-ID: <d1f5f56e-536f-5ce0-471e-4d340378170a@huawei.com>
Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2024 11:23:31 +0800
From: Liu Shixin <liushixin2@...wei.com>
To: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@...omium.org>, Andrew Morton
	<akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
CC: Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>, Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-block@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] zram: fix NULL pointer in comp_algorithm_show()



On 2024/11/9 9:12, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> On (24/11/08 18:01), Liu Shixin wrote:
>> LTP reported a NULL pointer dereference as followed:
>>
>>  CPU: 7 UID: 0 PID: 5995 Comm: cat Kdump: loaded Not tainted 6.12.0-rc6+ #3
>>  Hardware name: QEMU KVM Virtual Machine, BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015
>>  pstate: 40400005 (nZcv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
>>  pc : __pi_strcmp+0x24/0x140
>>  lr : zcomp_available_show+0x60/0x100 [zram]
>>  sp : ffff800088b93b90
>>  x29: ffff800088b93b90 x28: 0000000000000001 x27: 0000000000400cc0
>>  x26: 0000000000000ffe x25: ffff80007b3e2388 x24: 0000000000000000
>>  x23: ffff80007b3e2390 x22: ffff0004041a9000 x21: ffff80007b3e2900
>>  x20: 0000000000000000 x19: 0000000000000000 x18: 0000000000000000
>>  x17: 0000000000000000 x16: 0000000000000000 x15: 0000000000000000
>>  x14: 0000000000000000 x13: 0000000000000000 x12: 0000000000000000
>>  x11: 0000000000000000 x10: ffff80007b3e2900 x9 : ffff80007b3cb280
>>  x8 : 0101010101010101 x7 : 0000000000000000 x6 : 0000000000000000
>>  x5 : 0000000000000040 x4 : 0000000000000000 x3 : 00656c722d6f7a6c
>>  x2 : 0000000000000000 x1 : ffff80007b3e2900 x0 : 0000000000000000
>>  Call trace:
>>   __pi_strcmp+0x24/0x140
>>   comp_algorithm_show+0x40/0x70 [zram]
>>   dev_attr_show+0x28/0x80
>>   sysfs_kf_seq_show+0x90/0x140
>>   kernfs_seq_show+0x34/0x48
>>   seq_read_iter+0x1d4/0x4e8
>>   kernfs_fop_read_iter+0x40/0x58
>>   new_sync_read+0x9c/0x168
>>   vfs_read+0x1a8/0x1f8
>>   ksys_read+0x74/0x108
>>   __arm64_sys_read+0x24/0x38
>>   invoke_syscall+0x50/0x120
>>   el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0xc8/0xf0
>>   do_el0_svc+0x24/0x38
>>   el0_svc+0x38/0x138
>>   el0t_64_sync_handler+0xc0/0xc8
>>   el0t_64_sync+0x188/0x190
> The explanation below is more than enough, I think this stack trace
> doesn't really show anything new or interesting.
>
>> The zram->comp_algs[ZRAM_PRIMARY_COMP] can be NULL in zram_add() if
>> comp_algorithm_set() has not been called. User can access the zram device
>> by sysfs after device_add_disk(), so there is a time window to trigger
>> the NULL pointer dereference. Move it ahead device_add_disk() to make sure
>> when user can access the zram device, it is ready. comp_algorithm_set() is
>> protected by zram->init_lock in other places and no such problem.
>>
>> Fixes: 7ac07a26dea7 ("zram: preparation for multi-zcomp support")
> So I think this fixes something much older, probably around e46b8a030d76d
> time (2014).

The NULL pointer is introduced when zram->compressor is changed to zram->comp_algs in
7ac07a26dea, where the former is an array of chars and the latter is an array of pointers.
Before that, if we cat comp_algorithm int the time window, we will get a message with no
algorithm selected like this:

    cat /sys/block/zram1/comp_algorithm
    lzo lz4

>
>> Signed-off-by: Liu Shixin <liushixin2@...wei.com>
>> ---
> Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@...omium.org>
> .
>

Thanks,
.