Re: dell_smbios KASAN bug

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Wed Mar 20 2019 - 15:13:58 EST


On Wed, 20 Mar 2019 14:05:49 -0500
Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, 2019-03-20 at 14:41 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > On Wed, 20 Mar 2019 13:29:20 -0500
> > Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > While looking into an unrelated problem, I hit this KASAN use-
> > > after-
> > > free warning, so thought I'd let you know.
> > >
> > > I have no idea how to fix it, but let me know if you need more
> > > info.
> > >
> >
> > Could you run with debug in the kernel command line, and see if you
> > hit
> > any failed messages from the dell_smbios_init() call?
> >
>
> Not much, but this looks relevant:
>
> [ 26.783749] dell_smbios: No SMBIOS backends available (wmi: -19,
> smm: -19)
> [ 26.963648] dell_smbios: No dell-smbios drivers are loaded
>

And does this fix you problem?

-- Steve

diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/dell-smbios-base.c b/drivers/platform/x86/dell-smbios-base.c
index 9dc282ed5a9e..c3825c674522 100644
--- a/drivers/platform/x86/dell-smbios-base.c
+++ b/drivers/platform/x86/dell-smbios-base.c
@@ -619,6 +619,7 @@ static int __init dell_smbios_init(void)

fail_platform_driver:
kfree(da_tokens);
+ da_num_tokens = 0;
return ret;
}