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From: Alexander Martyniuk <alexevgmart@gmail.com>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Alexander Martyniuk <alexevgmart@gmail.com>,
	David Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>, Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>,
	dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Mingyu Wang <25181214217@stu.xidian.edu.cn>,
	Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de>
Subject: [PATCH 5.10/5.15/6.1/6.6/6.12] agp/amd64: Fix broken error propagation in agp_amd64_probe()
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2026 13:21:23 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260629102124.252403-1-alexevgmart@gmail.com> (raw)

From: Mingyu Wang <25181214217@stu.xidian.edu.cn>

commit b08472db93b1ccff84a7adec5779d47f0e9d3a30 upstream.

A NULL pointer dereference was observed in the AMD64 AGP driver when
running in a virtualized environment (e.g. qemu/kvm) without a physical
AMD northbridge. The crash occurs in amd64_fetch_size() when attempting
to dereference the pointer returned by node_to_amd_nb(0).

The root cause of this crash is broken error propagation in
agp_amd64_probe(): When no AMD northbridges are found, cache_nbs()
correctly returns -ENODEV. However, the probe function erroneously
checks the return value against exactly -1, rather than < 0.

As a result, the hardware absence error is masked, allowing the driver
to improperly proceed with initialization. It eventually calls
agp_add_bridge(), which invokes amd64_fetch_size(). Since the hardware
does not exist, node_to_amd_nb(0) returns NULL, leading to a General
Protection Fault (GPF) when accessing its ->misc member.

Fix the issue by correcting the error check in agp_amd64_probe() to
abort properly when cache_nbs() returns any negative error code. This
prevents the driver from erroneously proceeding without hardware, thereby
avoiding the subsequent NULL pointer dereference at its source.

Fixes: a32073bffc65 ("[PATCH] x86_64: Clean and enhance up K8 northbridge access code")
Signed-off-by: Mingyu Wang <25181214217@stu.xidian.edu.cn>
Signed-off-by: Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de>
Reviewed-by: Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v2.6.18+
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260504074823.99377-1-w15303746062@163.com
Signed-off-by: Alexander Martyniuk <alexevgmart@gmail.com>
---
 drivers/char/agp/amd64-agp.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/char/agp/amd64-agp.c b/drivers/char/agp/amd64-agp.c
index 8e41731d3642..c9d7cefa5192 100644
--- a/drivers/char/agp/amd64-agp.c
+++ b/drivers/char/agp/amd64-agp.c
@@ -546,7 +546,7 @@ static int agp_amd64_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev,
 	/* Fill in the mode register */
 	pci_read_config_dword(pdev, bridge->capndx+PCI_AGP_STATUS, &bridge->mode);
 
-	if (cache_nbs(pdev, cap_ptr) == -1) {
+	if (cache_nbs(pdev, cap_ptr) < 0) {
 		agp_put_bridge(bridge);
 		return -ENODEV;
 	}
-- 
2.43.0


             reply	other threads:[~2026-06-29 10:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-06-29 10:21 Alexander Martyniuk [this message]
2026-06-29 15:40 ` [PATCH 5.10/5.15/6.1/6.6/6.12] agp/amd64: Fix broken error propagation in agp_amd64_probe() Andi Kleen
2026-06-30  1:23   ` Mingyu Wang
2026-06-30  9:21     ` Greg Kroah-Hartman

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