On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 10:07:38AM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 03:36:56PM +0800, Xie Yongji wrote:
> > The control device has no drvdata. So we will get a
> > NULL pointer dereference when accessing control
> > device's msg_timeout attribute via sysfs:
> >
> > [ 132.841881][ T3644] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address:
> > 00000000000000f8
> > [ 132.850619][ T3644] RIP: 0010:msg_timeout_show
> > (drivers/vdpa/vdpa_user/vduse_dev.c:1271)
> > [ 132.869447][ T3644] dev_attr_show (drivers/base/core.c:2094)
> > [ 132.870215][ T3644] sysfs_kf_seq_show (fs/sysfs/file.c:59)
> > [ 132.871164][ T3644] ? device_remove_bin_file (drivers/base/core.c:2088)
> > [ 132.872082][ T3644] kernfs_seq_show (fs/kernfs/file.c:164)
> > [ 132.872838][ T3644] seq_read_iter (fs/seq_file.c:230)
> > [ 132.873578][ T3644] ? __vmalloc_area_node (mm/vmalloc.c:3041)
> > [ 132.874532][ T3644] kernfs_fop_read_iter (fs/kernfs/file.c:238)
> > [ 132.875513][ T3644] __kernel_read (fs/read_write.c:440 (discriminator 1))
> > [ 132.876319][ T3644] kernel_read (fs/read_write.c:459)
> > [ 132.877129][ T3644] kernel_read_file (fs/kernel_read_file.c:94)
> > [ 132.877978][ T3644] kernel_read_file_from_fd (include/linux/file.h:45
> > fs/kernel_read_file.c:186)
> > [ 132.879019][ T3644] __do_sys_finit_module (kernel/module.c:4207)
> > [ 132.879930][ T3644] __ia32_sys_finit_module (kernel/module.c:4189)
> > [ 132.880930][ T3644] do_int80_syscall_32 (arch/x86/entry/common.c:112
> > arch/x86/entry/common.c:132)
> > [ 132.881847][ T3644] entry_INT80_compat
> > (arch/x86/entry/entry_64_compat.S:419)
> >
> > To fix it, don't create the unneeded attribute for
> > control device anymore.
> >
> > Fixes: c8a6153b6c59 ("vduse: Introduce VDUSE - vDPA Device in Userspace")
> > Reported-by: kernel test robot <[email protected]>
> > Cc: [email protected]
> > Signed-off-by: Xie Yongji <[email protected]>
> > ---
> > drivers/vdpa/vdpa_user/vduse_dev.c | 7 +++----
> > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/vdpa/vdpa_user/vduse_dev.c
> > b/drivers/vdpa/vdpa_user/vduse_dev.c
> > index f85d1a08ed87..160e40d03084 100644
> > --- a/drivers/vdpa/vdpa_user/vduse_dev.c
> > +++ b/drivers/vdpa/vdpa_user/vduse_dev.c
> > @@ -1344,9 +1344,9 @@ static int vduse_create_dev(struct vduse_dev_config
> > *config,
> >
> > dev->minor = ret;
> > dev->msg_timeout = VDUSE_MSG_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT;
> > - dev->dev = device_create(vduse_class, NULL,
> > - MKDEV(MAJOR(vduse_major), dev->minor),
> > - dev, "%s", config->name);
> > + dev->dev = device_create_with_groups(vduse_class, NULL,
> > + MKDEV(MAJOR(vduse_major), dev->minor),
> > + dev, vduse_dev_groups, "%s", config->name);
> > if (IS_ERR(dev->dev)) {
> > ret = PTR_ERR(dev->dev);
> > goto err_dev;
> > @@ -1595,7 +1595,6 @@ static int vduse_init(void)
> > return PTR_ERR(vduse_class);
> >
> > vduse_class->devnode = vduse_devnode;
> > - vduse_class->dev_groups = vduse_dev_groups;
>
> Ok, this looks much better.
>
> But wow, there are some problems in this code overall. I see a number
> of flat-out-wrong things in there that should have been caught by code
> reviews. Some examples:
> - empty release() callbacks. That is a huge sign the code
> design is wrong and broken and you are just trying to make the
> driver core quiet for some reason. The documentation in the
> kernel explains why this is not ok.
> - __module_get(THIS_MODULE); That's racy, buggy, and doesn't do
> what you think it does. Please never ever ever do that. It
> too is a sign of a broken design.
> - no Documentation/ABI/ entries for the sysfs files here. I
> think it's burried in some other documentation file but that's
> not the correct place for it and if you run scripts/get_abi.pl
> with the code loaded it will rightly complain about this.
>
> Do you want to address these, or do you want patches for them?
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
So, any patches?
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