* [PATCH] efivarfs: Defer PM notifier registration until .fill_super
@ 2025-02-23 16:31 Ard Biesheuvel
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From: Ard Biesheuvel @ 2025-02-23 16:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-efi; +Cc: Ard Biesheuvel, James Bottomley, syzbot+00d13e505ef530a45100
syzbot reports an issue that turns out to be caused by the fact that the
efivarfs PM notifier may be invoked before the efivarfs_fs_info::sb
field is populated, resulting in a NULL deference.
So defer the registration until efivarfs_fill_super() is invoked.
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>
Reported-by: syzbot+00d13e505ef530a45100@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Tested-by: syzbot+00d13e505ef530a45100@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
---
fs/efivarfs/super.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/fs/efivarfs/super.c b/fs/efivarfs/super.c
index 09fcf731e65d..6eae8cf655c1 100644
--- a/fs/efivarfs/super.c
+++ b/fs/efivarfs/super.c
@@ -367,6 +367,8 @@ static int efivarfs_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, struct fs_context *fc)
if (err)
return err;
+ register_pm_notifier(&sfi->pm_nb);
+
return efivar_init(efivarfs_callback, sb, true);
}
@@ -552,7 +554,6 @@ static int efivarfs_init_fs_context(struct fs_context *fc)
sfi->pm_nb.notifier_call = efivarfs_pm_notify;
sfi->pm_nb.priority = 0;
- register_pm_notifier(&sfi->pm_nb);
return 0;
}
--
2.47.2
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