RE: [PATCH net v4 1/4] dpll: fix pin dump crash for rebound module

From: Kubalewski, Arkadiusz
Date: Thu Jan 18 2024 - 06:14:22 EST


>From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2024 3:24 PM
>
>Wed, Jan 17, 2024 at 10:14:13AM CET, arkadiusz.kubalewski@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>When a kernel module is unbound but the pin resources were not entirely
>>freed (other kernel module instance of the same PCI device have had kept
>>the reference to that pin), and kernel module is again bound, the pin
>>properties would not be updated (the properties are only assigned when
>>memory for the pin is allocated), prop pointer still points to the
>>kernel module memory of the kernel module which was deallocated on the
>>unbind.
>>
>>If the pin dump is invoked in this state, the result is a kernel crash.
>>Prevent the crash by storing persistent pin properties in dpll subsystem,
>>copy the content from the kernel module when pin is allocated, instead of
>>using memory of the kernel module.
>>
>>Fixes: 9431063ad323 ("dpll: core: Add DPLL framework base functions")
>>Fixes: 9d71b54b65b1 ("dpll: netlink: Add DPLL framework base functions")
>>Reviewed-by: Jan Glaza <jan.glaza@xxxxxxxxx>
>>Reviewed-by: Przemek Kitszel <przemyslaw.kitszel@xxxxxxxxx>
>>Signed-off-by: Arkadiusz Kubalewski <arkadiusz.kubalewski@xxxxxxxxx>
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>>@@ -443,7 +490,9 @@ dpll_pin_alloc(u64 clock_id, u32 pin_idx, struct
>>module *module,
>> ret = -EINVAL;
>> goto err;
>> }
>>- pin->prop = prop;
>>+ ret = dpll_pin_prop_dup(prop, &pin->prop);
>>+ if (ret)
>>+ goto pin_free;
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>This does not compile, does it? Please fix the error path first (patch
>4 should be patch 1) and then use properly named label right away there.
>

Yes, I messed up it, haven't check if each patch compiles separately.
Fixed in v5.

Thank you!
Arkadiusz

>pw-bot: cr
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>> refcount_set(&pin->refcount, 1);
>> xa_init_flags(&pin->dpll_refs, XA_FLAGS_ALLOC);
>> xa_init_flags(&pin->parent_refs, XA_FLAGS_ALLOC);
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