Patch "SCSI: Fix NULL pointer dereference in runtime PM" has been added to the 3.10-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    SCSI: Fix NULL pointer dereference in runtime PM

to the 3.10-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     scsi-fix-null-pointer-dereference-in-runtime-pm.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 4fd41a8552afc01054d9d9fc7f1a63c324867d27 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ken Xue <ken.xue@amd.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2015 14:45:46 +0800
Subject: SCSI: Fix NULL pointer dereference in runtime PM

From: Ken Xue <ken.xue@amd.com>

commit 4fd41a8552afc01054d9d9fc7f1a63c324867d27 upstream.

The routines in scsi_pm.c assume that if a runtime-PM callback is
invoked for a SCSI device, it can only mean that the device's driver
has asked the block layer to handle the runtime power management (by
calling blk_pm_runtime_init(), which among other things sets q->dev).

However, this assumption turns out to be wrong for things like the ses
driver.  Normally ses devices are not allowed to do runtime PM, but
userspace can override this setting.  If this happens, the kernel gets
a NULL pointer dereference when blk_post_runtime_resume() tries to use
the uninitialized q->dev pointer.

This patch fixes the problem by checking q->dev in block layer before
handle runtime PM. Since ses doesn't define any PM callbacks and call
blk_pm_runtime_init(), the crash won't occur.

This fixes Bugzilla #101371.
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101371

More discussion can be found from below link.
http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=144163730531875&w=2

Signed-off-by: Ken Xue <Ken.Xue@amd.com>
Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Xiangliang Yu <Xiangliang.Yu@amd.com>
Cc: James E.J. Bottomley <JBottomley@odin.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Michael Terry <Michael.terry@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 block/blk-core.c |   12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

--- a/block/blk-core.c
+++ b/block/blk-core.c
@@ -3097,6 +3097,9 @@ int blk_pre_runtime_suspend(struct reque
 {
 	int ret = 0;
 
+	if (!q->dev)
+		return ret;
+
 	spin_lock_irq(q->queue_lock);
 	if (q->nr_pending) {
 		ret = -EBUSY;
@@ -3124,6 +3127,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(blk_pre_runtime_suspend);
  */
 void blk_post_runtime_suspend(struct request_queue *q, int err)
 {
+	if (!q->dev)
+		return;
+
 	spin_lock_irq(q->queue_lock);
 	if (!err) {
 		q->rpm_status = RPM_SUSPENDED;
@@ -3148,6 +3154,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(blk_post_runtime_suspend);
  */
 void blk_pre_runtime_resume(struct request_queue *q)
 {
+	if (!q->dev)
+		return;
+
 	spin_lock_irq(q->queue_lock);
 	q->rpm_status = RPM_RESUMING;
 	spin_unlock_irq(q->queue_lock);
@@ -3170,6 +3179,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(blk_pre_runtime_resume);
  */
 void blk_post_runtime_resume(struct request_queue *q, int err)
 {
+	if (!q->dev)
+		return;
+
 	spin_lock_irq(q->queue_lock);
 	if (!err) {
 		q->rpm_status = RPM_ACTIVE;


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ken.xue@amd.com are

queue-3.10/scsi-fix-null-pointer-dereference-in-runtime-pm.patch