From: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
To: Ben Horgan <ben.horgan@arm.com>
Cc: james.morse@arm.com, reinette.chatre@intel.com,
fenghuay@nvidia.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, dave.martin@arm.com,
will@kernel.org, catalin.marinas@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/2] arm_mpam: Fix a NULL pointer dereference on unbinding after an error interrupt
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2026 17:38:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51f5d369-9491-49cb-957a-dd70ad42ecd6@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260806144631.2502918-2-ben.horgan@arm.com>
Hi,
On 8/6/26 16:46, Ben Horgan wrote:
> If a user unbinds an MSC after mpam_disable() has been run in response
> to an error interrupt then a dereference of a NULL pointer occurs as
> mpam_disable() sets the drvdata to NULL. Add an early return to the driver
> remove callback to avoid this.
Yes, I added a very similar patch to my stack yesterday, in response to
a Sashiko complaint.
However I was still calling mpam_free_garbage() at the end, to me it
looks like this is not depending on any MSC?
Cheers,
Andre
> Fixes: f04046f2577a ("arm_mpam: Add probe/remove for mpam msc driver and kbuild boiler plate")
> Signed-off-by: Ben Horgan <ben.horgan@arm.com>
> ---
> drivers/resctrl/mpam_devices.c | 3 +++
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/resctrl/mpam_devices.c b/drivers/resctrl/mpam_devices.c
> index 2f09f4b78bd3..bc6cc0b5c96b 100644
> --- a/drivers/resctrl/mpam_devices.c
> +++ b/drivers/resctrl/mpam_devices.c
> @@ -2025,6 +2025,9 @@ static void mpam_msc_drv_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
> {
> struct mpam_msc *msc = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
>
> + if (!msc)
> + return;
> +
> mutex_lock(&mpam_list_lock);
> mpam_msc_destroy(msc);
> mutex_unlock(&mpam_list_lock);
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-08-06 15:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-06 14:46 [PATCH v1 0/2] MPAM Fixes for UAF and NPE on unbind Ben Horgan
2026-08-06 14:46 ` [PATCH v1 1/2] arm_mpam: Fix a NULL pointer dereference on unbinding after an error interrupt Ben Horgan
2026-08-06 15:38 ` Andre Przywara [this message]
2026-08-06 19:36 ` Ben Horgan
2026-08-06 14:46 ` [PATCH v1 2/2] arm_mpam: Disable driver unbind to avoid UAF Ben Horgan
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