[PATCH] component: remove device from master match list on failed add

From: Daniel Stone
Date: Mon Feb 08 2016 - 16:13:08 EST


Calling component_add() may result in the completion of a set of
devices, which will try to bring up a master. In bringing the master
up, we populate its match array with the current set of children.

If binding any of the devices fails, component_add() itself will fail,
free the struct component entry, and return to the caller. The
now-freed entry is never removed from the master's match array, and
will later be used in a futile attempt to bind to freed memory.

Bring component_add's behaviour on failure to bring up a master into
line with component_del by removing the (to-be-freed) component from
the master's match array.

The specific case which broke was:
- rockchip_drm_drv adds a component master
- dwhdmi_rockchip adds a child component in probe (master incomplete)
- rockchip_drm_vop adds two children in probe, which completes the
set
- inside component_add, we try to bring up the master, having
populated the master's match array, and fail with EPROBE_DEFER from
dwhdmi_rockchip; we delete the putative component
- rockchip_drm_vop's probe fails and returns EPROBE_DEFER
- we later re-probe rockchip_drm_vop and add the component; the
master is complete, so we attempt to bring it up again
- walking the match array, we find the previous child, whose master
pointer doesn't match (as it has been freed in the meantime)
- rockchip_drm_vop probe fails, and will never be attempted again

Fixes: ffc30b74fd6d01588bd3fdebc3b1acc0857e6fc8
Signed-off-by: Daniel Stone <daniels@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Russell King <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thierry Reding <treding@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/base/component.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/base/component.c b/drivers/base/component.c
index 2738039..04a1582 100644
--- a/drivers/base/component.c
+++ b/drivers/base/component.c
@@ -491,6 +491,8 @@ int component_add(struct device *dev, const struct component_ops *ops)

ret = try_to_bring_up_masters(component);
if (ret < 0) {
+ if (component->master)
+ remove_component(component->master, component);
list_del(&component->node);

kfree(component);
--
2.5.0