Re: [PATCH v2] vduse: Fix NULL pointer dereference on sysfs access

From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Yongji Xie <xieyongji@bytedance.com>
Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>,
	Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com>,
	virtualization <virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] vduse: Fix NULL pointer dereference on sysfs access
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2022 05:51:26 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220602055103-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACycT3v+r1-RO1q_BuStkaais7n0yDXK4gT89WhchpX3AvRPcg@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Jun 02, 2022 at 12:55:02PM +0800, Yongji Xie wrote:
> Ping.

Thanks for the reminder!
Will queue for rc2, rc1 has too much stuff already.

> On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 3:36 PM Xie Yongji <xieyongji@bytedance.com> 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 <oliver.sang@intel.com>
> > Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> > Signed-off-by: Xie Yongji <xieyongji@bytedance.com>
> > ---
> >  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;
> >
> >         ret = alloc_chrdev_region(&vduse_major, 0, VDUSE_DEV_MAX, "vduse");
> >         if (ret)
> > --
> > 2.20.1
> >