Re: [PATCH 2/2] SCSI: Fix NULL pointer dereference in runtime PM

[Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>]

On 11/30/2015 11:45 PM, Ken Xue wrote:
> 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
>

Added for 4.4, thanks.

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Jens Axboe