Re: arch/riscv/kernel/module.c:639 process_accumulated_relocations() error: uninitialized symbol 'curr_type'.

From: Charlie Jenkins
Date: Wed Jan 03 2024 - 15:27:27 EST


On Tue, Jan 02, 2024 at 03:37:34PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 27, 2023 at 04:59:25PM -0800, Charlie Jenkins wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 14, 2023 at 11:00:46AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > > On Wed, Dec 13, 2023 at 11:27:02AM -0800, Charlie Jenkins wrote:
> > > > > 8fd6c5142395a1 Charlie Jenkins 2023-11-01 638 }
> > > > > 8fd6c5142395a1 Charlie Jenkins 2023-11-01 @639 reloc_handlers[curr_type].accumulate_handler(
> > > > > ^^^^^^^^^
> > > > > Can the list be empty? Uninitialized in that case.
> > > >
> > > > That's a tricky one, the list cannot be empty. Each bucket in the
> > > > bucket_iter is guarunteed to have at least one rel_entry. I can probably
> > > > resolve this by extracting this for loop into a do-while loop.
> > >
> > > You can just ignore false positives. It's not really a fix to change it
> > > to a do-while loop. I reviewed the do while code before reading this
> > > email and I still wondered about empty lists, but just to hear that it's
> > > not going to be empty is enough. Just the email was sufficient.
> > >
> > > regards,
> > > dan carpenter
> > >
> >
> > The fix isn't the do-while loop but rather the use after free, the
> > incorrect sizeof, and incorrect error handling when
> > initialize_relocation_hashtable fails. I decided to include the do-while
> > code because I was already touching the surrounding code. Can you review
> > [1]? If you would prefer that the do-while is reverted, I can do that,
> > but it is important that the rest of the fixes are merged before 6.7 is
> > released.
> >
> > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20231213-module_loading_fix-v1-1-da9b7c92ade5@xxxxxxxxxxxx/
>
>
> Most subsystems wouldn't merge a patch like this which does so many
> things at the same time...

That is a good point, I split it across 4 different patches.

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/20240103-module_loading_fix-v2-0-292b160552c9@xxxxxxxxxxxx/

>
> regards,
> dan carpenter
>