Re: [PATCH] Revert "ath9k: Fix general protection fault in ath9k_hif_usb_rx_cb"

[Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>]

Viktor Jägersküpper <viktor_jaegerskuepper@freenet.de> writes:

> Kalle Valo wrote:
>> Viktor Jägersküpper <viktor_jaegerskuepper@freenet.de> writes:
>> 
>>> Kalle Valo writes:
>>>> Roman Mamedov <rm@romanrm.net> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> On Sat,  4 Apr 2020 12:18:38 +0800
>>>>> Qiujun Huang <hqjagain@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> In ath9k_hif_usb_rx_cb interface number is assumed to be 0.
>>>>>> usb_ifnum_to_if(urb->dev, 0)
>>>>>> But it isn't always true.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The case reported by syzbot:
>>>>>> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-usb/000000000000666c9c05a1c05d12@google.com
>>>>>> usb 2-1: new high-speed USB device number 2 using dummy_hcd
>>>>>> usb 2-1: config 1 has an invalid interface number: 2 but max is 0
>>>>>> usb 2-1: config 1 has no interface number 0
>>>>>> usb 2-1: New USB device found, idVendor=0cf3, idProduct=9271, bcdDevice=
>>>>>> 1.08
>>>>>> usb 2-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
>>>>>> general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address
>>>>>> 0xdffffc0000000015: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN
>>>>>> KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x00000000000000a8-0x00000000000000af]
>>>>>> CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 5.6.0-rc5-syzkaller #0
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Call Trace
>>>>>> __usb_hcd_giveback_urb+0x29a/0x550 drivers/usb/core/hcd.c:1650
>>>>>> usb_hcd_giveback_urb+0x368/0x420 drivers/usb/core/hcd.c:1716
>>>>>> dummy_timer+0x1258/0x32ae drivers/usb/gadget/udc/dummy_hcd.c:1966
>>>>>> call_timer_fn+0x195/0x6f0 kernel/time/timer.c:1404
>>>>>> expire_timers kernel/time/timer.c:1449 [inline]
>>>>>> __run_timers kernel/time/timer.c:1773 [inline]
>>>>>> __run_timers kernel/time/timer.c:1740 [inline]
>>>>>> run_timer_softirq+0x5f9/0x1500 kernel/time/timer.c:1786
>>>>>> __do_softirq+0x21e/0x950 kernel/softirq.c:292
>>>>>> invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:373 [inline]
>>>>>> irq_exit+0x178/0x1a0 kernel/softirq.c:413
>>>>>> exiting_irq arch/x86/include/asm/apic.h:546 [inline]
>>>>>> smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x141/0x540 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1146
>>>>>> apic_timer_interrupt+0xf/0x20 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:829
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Reported-and-tested-by: syzbot+40d5d2e8a4680952f042@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Qiujun Huang <hqjagain@gmail.com>
>>>>>
>>>>> This causes complete breakage of ath9k operation across all the stable kernel
>>>>> series it got backported to, and I guess the mainline as well. Please see:
>>>>> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=208251
>>>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1848631
>>>>
>>>> So there's no fix for this? I was under impression that someone fixed
>>>> this, but maybe I'm mixing with something else.
>>>>
>>>> If this is not fixed can someone please submit a patch to revert the
>>>> offending commit (or commits) so that we get ath9k working again?
>>>>
>>>
>>> This reverts commit 2bbcaaee1fcbd83272e29f31e2bb7e70d8c49e05
>>> ("ath9k: Fix general protection fault
>>> in ath9k_hif_usb_rx_cb") because the driver gets stuck like this:
>>>
>>>   [    5.778803] usb 1-5: Manufacturer: ATHEROS
>>>   [   21.697488] usb 1-5: ath9k_htc: Firmware ath9k_htc/htc_9271-1.4.0.fw requested
>>>   [   21.701377] usbcore: registered new interface driver ath9k_htc
>>>   [ 22.053705] usb 1-5: ath9k_htc: Transferred FW:
>>> ath9k_htc/htc_9271-1.4.0.fw, size: 51008
>>>   [   22.306182] ath9k_htc 1-5:1.0: ath9k_htc: HTC initialized with 33 credits
>>>   [  115.708513] ath9k_htc: Failed to initialize the device
>>>   [  115.708683] usb 1-5: ath9k_htc: USB layer deinitialized
>>>
>>> Reported-by: Roman Mamedov <rm@romanrm.net>
>>> Ref: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=208251
>>> Fixes: 2bbcaaee1fcb ("ath9k: Fix general protection fault in ath9k_hif_usb_rx_cb")
>>> Tested-by: Viktor Jägersküpper <viktor_jaegerskuepper@freenet.de>
>>> Signed-off-by: Viktor Jägersküpper <viktor_jaegerskuepper@freenet.de>
>>> ---
>>>
>>> I couldn't find any fix for this, so here is the patch which reverts the
>>> offending commit. I have tested it with 5.8.0-rc3 and with 5.7.4.
>>>
>>> Feel free to change the commit message if it is necessary or appropriate, I am
>>> just a user affected by this bug.
>> 
>> This was badly formatted:
>> 
>> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11636783/
>> 
>> But v2 looks correct:
>> 
>> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11637341/
>> 
>> Thanks, I'll take a closer look at this as soon as I can.
>> 
>
> Hi Kalle,
>
> it seems you didn't have time for this so far. If you don't have time at the
> moment, is there someone else who can fix this? Reverting the commit is just the
> first and easy option and fixing this properly can be done after that.

I was on vacation, I will get to your patch in the next few days.

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