[PATCH] libnvdimm, pmem: fix badblocks notification crash

Dan Williams
2017-04-27T22:16:10Z

The nd_pmem_notify() routine is called whenever an ARS
(address-range-scrub) completes to communicate results to the
per-namespace badblocks instances.

When the namespace is in btt mode we crash because we do not allocate a
struct pmem_device instance in that case. Resulting in the following
crash signature:

BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000030
IP: nd_pmem_notify+0x30/0xf0 [nd_pmem]
Call Trace:
nd_device_notify+0x40/0x50
child_notify+0x10/0x20
device_for_each_child+0x50/0x90
nd_region_notify+0x20/0x30
nd_device_notify+0x40/0x50
nvdimm_region_notify+0x27/0x30
acpi_nfit_scrub+0x341/0x590 [nfit]
process_one_work+0x197/0x450
worker_thread+0x4e/0x4a0
kthread+0x109/0x140

Given that we don't even populate the btt badblocks instance, just
return early and skip the device to region lookup.

This is a simpler version of the original fix by Toshi [1].

[1]: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9700055/

Cc: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
Reported-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
---
drivers/nvdimm/pmem.c | 14 ++++++++------
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/nvdimm/pmem.c b/drivers/nvdimm/pmem.c
index 5b536be5a12e..ee6cd31dafcf 100644
--- a/drivers/nvdimm/pmem.c
+++ b/drivers/nvdimm/pmem.c
@@ -388,21 +388,21 @@ static void nd_pmem_shutdown(struct device *dev)

static void nd_pmem_notify(struct device *dev, enum nvdimm_event event)
{
- struct pmem_device *pmem = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
- struct nd_region *nd_region = to_region(pmem);
resource_size_t offset = 0, end_trunc = 0;
struct nd_namespace_common *ndns;
struct nd_namespace_io *nsio;
+ struct nd_region *nd_region;
+ struct pmem_device *pmem;
struct resource res;

if (event != NVDIMM_REVALIDATE_POISON)
return;

- if (is_nd_btt(dev)) {
- struct nd_btt *nd_btt = to_nd_btt(dev);
+ /* no badblocks instance to update in the btt case */
+ if (is_nd_btt(dev))
+ return;

- ndns = nd_btt->ndns;
- } else if (is_nd_pfn(dev)) {
+ if (is_nd_pfn(dev)) {
struct nd_pfn *nd_pfn = to_nd_pfn(dev);
struct nd_pfn_sb *pfn_sb = nd_pfn->pfn_sb;

@@ -415,6 +415,8 @@ static void nd_pmem_notify(struct device *dev, enum nvdimm_event event)
nsio = to_nd_namespace_io(&ndns->dev);
res.start = nsio->res.start + offset;
res.end = nsio->res.end - end_trunc;
+ pmem = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
+ nd_region = to_region(pmem);
nvdimm_badblocks_populate(nd_region, &pmem->bb, &res);
}