The disable_acs_redir parameter stores a pointer to the string passed to
pci_setup(). However, the string passed to PCI setup is actually a
temporary copy allocated in static __initdata memory. After init, once
the memory is freed, it is no longer valid to reference this pointer.
This bug was noticed in v5.0-rc1 after a change in commit c5eb1190074c
("PCI / PM: Allow runtime PM without callback functions") caused
pci_disable_acs_redir() to be called during shutdown which manifested
as an unable to handle kernel paging request at:
RIP: 0010:pci_enable_acs+0x3f/0x1e0
Call Trace:
pci_restore_state.part.44+0x159/0x3c0
pci_restore_standard_config+0x33/0x40
pci_pm_runtime_resume+0x2b/0xd0
? pci_restore_standard_config+0x40/0x40
__rpm_callback+0xbc/0x1b0
rpm_callback+0x1f/0x70
? pci_restore_standard_config+0x40/0x40
rpm_resume+0x4f9/0x710
? pci_conf1_read+0xb6/0xf0
? pci_conf1_write+0xb2/0xe0
__pm_runtime_resume+0x47/0x70
pci_device_shutdown+0x1e/0x60
It was also likely possible to trigger this bug when hotplugging PCII wasn't able to trigger this but I saw
devices.
To fix this, instead of storing a pointer, we use kstrdup to copy the
disable_acs_redir_param to its own buffer which will never be freed.