Re: [PATCH] firewire: fw-sbp2: fix NULL pointer deref in slave_alloc

From: Stefan Richter
Date: Sun Feb 17 2008 - 12:45:58 EST


On 17 Feb, Stefan Richter wrote:
> Fix a kernel bug when running rescan-scsi-bus while a FireWire disk is
> connected: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10008
>
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/firewire/fw-sbp2.c | 4 ++++
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>
> Index: linux/drivers/firewire/fw-sbp2.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux.orig/drivers/firewire/fw-sbp2.c
> +++ linux/drivers/firewire/fw-sbp2.c
> @@ -1473,6 +1473,10 @@ static int sbp2_scsi_slave_alloc(struct
> {
> struct sbp2_logical_unit *lu = sdev->hostdata;
>
> + /* (Re-)Adding logical units via the SCSI stack is not supported. */
> + if (!lu)
> + return -ENOSYS;
> +
> sdev->allow_restart = 1;
>
> /*
>


There is unfortunately another bug. If the user manually removes the
scsi_device by writing into its "delete" sysfs attribute, the following
will happen when the SBP-2 device is plugged out:


BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000000000000b8
IP: [<ffffffff804188c6>] mutex_lock_nested+0x7b/0x270
PGD 0
Oops: 0002 [1] PREEMPT SMP
CPU 0
Modules linked in: firewire_sbp2 firewire_ohci firewire_core crc_itu_t i915 drm cpufreq_ondemand acpi_cpufreq freq_table applesmc input_polldev led_class coretemp hwmon eeprom snd_seq_oss snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq snd_seq_device snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_hda_intel snd_pcm snd_timer snd snd_page_alloc button sg thermal processor sky2 i2c_i801 rtc [last unloaded: ieee1394]
Pid: 9, comm: events/0 Not tainted 2.6.25-rc2 #3
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff804188c6>] [<ffffffff804188c6>] mutex_lock_nested+0x7b/0x270
RSP: 0018:ffff81007dcddca0 EFLAGS: 00010002
RAX: 0000000000000100 RBX: ffff81007cc4a800 RCX: ffff81007009b000
RDX: ffff81007dc95040 RSI: 00000000000000d1 RDI: ffffffff804d0fcd
RBP: 00000000000000b0 R08: ffffffff805b5000 R09: ffffffff805b6000
R10: 00000000000000b0 R11: 0000000000000046 R12: 0000000000000246
R13: ffff81007dc95040 R14: ffffffff8036a670 R15: 0000000000000000
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffffffff8055a000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0018 ES: 0018 CR0: 000000008005003b
CR2: 00000000000000b8 CR3: 0000000000201000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Process events/0 (pid: 9, threadinfo ffff81007dcdc000, task ffff81007dc95040)
Stack: ffff81007009b000 ffff81007009b078 0000000000000286 ffffffff8041a305
0000000000000000 0000000000000000 ffff81007009b000 ffff81007cc4a800
ffff81007009b638 00000000000000b0 ffff81007009b648 ffff81007009b000
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff8041a305>] ? _spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x49/0x68
[<ffffffff8036a670>] ? scsi_remove_device+0x1e/0x33
[<ffffffff880ef799>] ? :firewire_sbp2:sbp2_release_target+0x33/0xca
[<ffffffff880ef766>] ? :firewire_sbp2:sbp2_release_target+0x0/0xca
[<ffffffff802ec6df>] ? kref_put+0x41/0x4c
[<ffffffff880ef117>] ? :firewire_sbp2:sbp2_remove+0x10/0x14
[<ffffffff8034d75c>] ? __device_release_driver+0x78/0x9e
[<ffffffff8034db94>] ? device_release_driver+0x3d/0x55
[<ffffffff8034cfd0>] ? bus_remove_device+0x76/0x85
[<ffffffff8034b760>] ? device_del+0x114/0x181
[<ffffffff88079095>] ? :firewire_core:shutdown_unit+0x0/0xd
[<ffffffff8034b7d6>] ? device_unregister+0x9/0x12
[<ffffffff8807909e>] ? :firewire_core:shutdown_unit+0x9/0xd
[<ffffffff8041a2f9>] ? _spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x3d/0x68
[<ffffffff8034b361>] ? device_for_each_child+0x22/0x4d
[<ffffffff880790fc>] ? :firewire_core:fw_device_shutdown+0x2e/0x71
[<ffffffff880790ce>] ? :firewire_core:fw_device_shutdown+0x0/0x71
[<ffffffff8023b396>] ? run_workqueue+0xdf/0x1df
[<ffffffff8023be87>] ? worker_thread+0xd8/0xe3
[<ffffffff8023e917>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x2e
[<ffffffff8023bdaf>] ? worker_thread+0x0/0xe3
[<ffffffff8023e813>] ? kthread+0x47/0x74
[<ffffffff804198e0>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_thunk+0x35/0x3a
[<ffffffff8020c008>] ? child_rip+0xa/0x12
[<ffffffff8020b6e3>] ? restore_args+0x0/0x3d
[<ffffffff8023e68a>] ? kthreadd+0x14c/0x171
[<ffffffff8023e68a>] ? kthreadd+0x14c/0x171
[<ffffffff8023e7cc>] ? kthread+0x0/0x74
[<ffffffff8020bffe>] ? child_rip+0x0/0x12


Code: c0 74 1a 83 3d 43 8a 55 00 00 75 11 be 86 00 00 00 48 c7 c7 cd 0f 4d 80 e8 40 3c e1 ff 9c 41 5c fa e8 f8 e9 e2 ff b8 00 01 00 00 <f0> 66 0f c1 45 08 38 e0 74 07 f3 90 8a 45 08 eb f5 48 39 6d 58
RIP [<ffffffff804188c6>] mutex_lock_nested+0x7b/0x270
RSP <ffff81007dcddca0>
CR2: 00000000000000b8
---[ end trace 2a9c61e9883e29d2 ]---

--
Stefan Richter
-=====-==--- --=- =---=
http://arcgraph.de/sr/

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