Re: [RESEND PATCH v2] mfd: syscon: Use a unique name with regmap_config

[Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>]

On 2020-08-27 21:32, Suman Anna wrote:
> Hi Marc,
> 
> + Mark Brown
> 
> On 8/27/20 3:06 PM, Marc Zyngier wrote:
>> Hi Suman,
>> 
>> On 2020-08-27 19:28, Suman Anna wrote:
>>> Hi Marc,
>>> 
>>> On 8/27/20 9:46 AM, Marc Zyngier wrote:

[...]

>>>> This patch triggers some illegal memory accesses when debugfs is
>>>> enabled, as regmap does rely on config->name to be persistent
>>>> when the debugfs registration is deferred via 
>>>> regmap_debugfs_early_list
>>>> (__regmap_init() -> regmap_attach_dev() -> 
>>>> regmap_debugfs_init()...),
>>>> leading to a KASAN splat on demand.
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Thanks, I missed the subtlety around the debugfs registration.
>>> 
>>>> I came up with the following patch that solves the issue for me.
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> 
>>>>         M.
>>>> 
>>>> From fd3f5f2bf72df53be18d13914fe349a34f81f16b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 
>>>> 2001
>>>> From: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
>>>> Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2020 14:45:34 +0100
>>>> Subject: [PATCH] mfd: syscon: Don't free allocated name for 
>>>> regmap_config
>>>> 
>>>> The name allocated for the regmap_config structure is freed
>>>> pretty early, right after the registration of the MMIO region.
>>>> 
>>>> Unfortunately, that doesn't follow the life cycle that debugfs
>>>> expects, as it can access the name field long after the free
>>>> has occured.
>>>> 
>>>> Move the free on the error path, and keep it forever otherwise.
>>> 
>>> Hmm, this is exactly what I was trying to avoid. The regmap_init does 
>>> duplicate
>>> the name into map->name if config->name is given, and the regmap 
>>> debugfs makes
>>> another copy of its own into debugfs_name when actually registered. 
>>> If the rules
>>> for regmap_init is that the config->name should be persistent, then I 
>>> guess we
>>> have no choice but to go with the below fix.
>>> 
>>> Does something like below help?
>>> 
>>> diff --git a/drivers/base/regmap/regmap.c 
>>> b/drivers/base/regmap/regmap.c
>>> index e93700af7e6e..96d8a0161c89 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/base/regmap/regmap.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/base/regmap/regmap.c
>>> @@ -1137,7 +1137,7 @@ struct regmap *__regmap_init(struct device 
>>> *dev,
>>>                 if (ret != 0)
>>>                         goto err_regcache;
>>>         } else {
>>> -               regmap_debugfs_init(map, config->name);
>>> +               regmap_debugfs_init(map, map->name);
>>> 
>>> But there are couple of other places in regmap code that uses 
>>> config->name, but
>>> those won't be exercised with the syscon code.
>> 
>> Is config->name always the same as map->name? If so, why don't you 
>> just
>> pass map once and for all? Is the lifetime of map->name the same as
>> that of config->name?
> 
> map->name is created (kstrdup_const) from config->name if not NULL, so 
> above
> replacement should be exactly equivalent, map is filled in 
> _regmap_init. But it
> does make the regmap_debugfs_init callsites in the file look 
> dissimilar.
> 
>> 
>> My worry with this approach is that we start changing stuff in a rush,
>> and this would IMHO deserve a thorough investigation of whether this
>> change is actually safe.
>> 
>> I'd rather take the safe approach of either keeping the memory around
>> until we clearly understand what the implications are (and probably
>> this should involve the regmap maintainer), or to revert this patch
>> until we figure out the actual life cycle of the various names.
> 
> Yeah, agreed. Let's see what Mark suggests.
> 
> Mark,
> Can you clarify the lifecycle expectations on the config->name and do 
> you have
> any suggestions here?

Have we reached a conclusion here? Can we get a fix in mainline?

Thanks,

         M.
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