linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 1/3] PCI/sysfs: Fix null pointer dereference during hotplug

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Message-ID: <20251224092721.2034529-2-duziming2@huawei.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2025 17:27:17 +0800
From: Ziming Du <duziming2@...wei.com>
To: <bhelgaas@...gle.com>, <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>, <chrisw@...hat.com>,
	<alex.williamson@...hat.com>
CC: <linux-pci@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	<liuyongqiang13@...wei.com>, <duziming2@...wei.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 1/3] PCI/sysfs: Fix null pointer dereference during hotplug

During the concurrent process of creating and rescanning in VF, the
resource files for the same pci_dev may be created twice. The second
creation attempt fails, resulting the res_attr in pci_dev to kfree(),
but the pointer is not set to NULL. This will subsequently lead to
dereferencing a null pointer when removing the device.

When we perform the following operation:
  echo $vfcount > /sys/class/net/"$pfname"/device/sriov_numvfs &
  sleep 0.5
  echo 1 > /sys/bus/pci/rescan
  pci_remove "$pfname"
system will crash as follows:

  Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000000
  Call trace:
   __pi_strlen+0x14/0x150
   kernfs_find_ns+0x54/0x120
   kernfs_remove_by_name_ns+0x58/0xf0
   sysfs_remove_bin_file+0x24/0x38
   pci_remove_resource_files+0x44/0x90
   pci_remove_sysfs_dev_files+0x28/0x40
   pci_stop_bus_device+0xb8/0x118
   pci_stop_and_remove_bus_device+0x20/0x40
   pci_iov_remove_virtfn+0xb8/0x138
   sriov_disable+0xbc/0x190
   pci_disable_sriov+0x30/0x48
   hinic_pci_sriov_disable+0x54/0x138 [hinic]
   hinic_remove+0x140/0x290 [hinic]
   pci_device_remove+0x4c/0xf8
   device_remove+0x54/0x90
   device_release_driver_internal+0x1d4/0x238
   device_release_driver+0x20/0x38
   pci_stop_bus_device+0xa8/0x118
   pci_stop_and_remove_bus_device_locked+0x28/0x50
   remove_store+0x128/0x208

Fix this by set the pointer to NULL after releasing res_attr immediately.

Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Signed-off-by: Ziming Du <duziming2@...wei.com>
---
 drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c b/drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c
index c2df915ad2d2..7e697b82c5e1 100644
--- a/drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c
+++ b/drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c
@@ -1222,12 +1222,14 @@ static void pci_remove_resource_files(struct pci_dev *pdev)
 		if (res_attr) {
 			sysfs_remove_bin_file(&pdev->dev.kobj, res_attr);
 			kfree(res_attr);
+			pdev->res_attr[i] = NULL;
 		}
 
 		res_attr = pdev->res_attr_wc[i];
 		if (res_attr) {
 			sysfs_remove_bin_file(&pdev->dev.kobj, res_attr);
 			kfree(res_attr);
+			pdev->res_attr_wc[i] = NULL;
 		}
 	}
 }
-- 
2.43.0