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    drivers: base: Fix NULL pointer exception in __platform_driver_probe() if a... · 388bcc6e
    Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan authored
    drivers: base: Fix NULL pointer exception in __platform_driver_probe() if a driver developer is foolish
    
    If platform bus driver registration is failed then, accessing
    platform bus spin lock (&drv->driver.bus->p->klist_drivers.k_lock)
    in __platform_driver_probe() without verifying the return value
    __platform_driver_register() can lead to NULL pointer exception.
    
    So check the return value before attempting the spin lock.
    
    One such example is below:
    
    For a custom usecase, I have intentionally failed the platform bus
    registration and I expected all the platform device/driver
    registrations to fail gracefully. But I came across this panic
    issue.
    
    [    1.331067] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 00000000000000c8
    [    1.331118] #PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode
    [    1.331163] #PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page
    [    1.331208] PGD 0 P4D 0
    [    1.331233] Oops: 0002 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
    [    1.331268] CPU: 3 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Tainted: G        W         5.6.0-00049-g670d35fb0144 #165
    [    1.331341] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015
    [    1.331406] RIP: 0010:_raw_spin_lock+0x15/0x30
    [    1.331588] RSP: 0000:ffffc9000001be70 EFLAGS: 00010246
    [    1.331632] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 00000000000000c8 RCX: 0000000000000001
    [    1.331696] RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 0000000000000092 RDI: 0000000000000000
    [    1.331754] RBP: 00000000ffffffed R08: 0000000000000501 R09: 0000000000000001
    [    1.331817] R10: ffff88817abcc520 R11: 0000000000000670 R12: 00000000ffffffed
    [    1.331881] R13: ffffffff82dbc268 R14: ffffffff832f070a R15: 0000000000000000
    [    1.331945] FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88817bd80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
    [    1.332008] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
    [    1.332062] CR2: 00000000000000c8 CR3: 000000000681e001 CR4: 00000000003606e0
    [    1.332126] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
    [    1.332189] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
    [    1.332252] Call Trace:
    [    1.332281]  __platform_driver_probe+0x92/0xee
    [    1.332323]  ? rtc_dev_init+0x2b/0x2b
    [    1.332358]  cmos_init+0x37/0x67
    [    1.332396]  do_one_initcall+0x7d/0x168
    [    1.332428]  kernel_init_freeable+0x16c/0x1c9
    [    1.332473]  ? rest_init+0xc0/0xc0
    [    1.332508]  kernel_init+0x5/0x100
    [    1.332543]  ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30
    [    1.332579] CR2: 00000000000000c8
    [    1.332616] ---[ end trace 3bd87f12e9010b87 ]---
    [    1.333549] note: swapper/0[1] exited with preempt_count 1
    [    1.333592] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x00000009
    [    1.333736] Kernel Offset: disabled
    
    Note, this can only be triggered if a driver errors out from this call,
    which should never happen.  If it does, the driver needs to be fixed.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarKuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan <sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@linux.intel.com>
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200408214003.3356-1-sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@linux.intel.comSigned-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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