From: Sean Young <sean@mess.org>
To: Pavel Skripkin <paskripkin@gmail.com>
Cc: mkrufky@linuxtv.org, mchehab@kernel.org, crope@iki.fi,
linux-media@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
syzbot+5ca0bf339f13c4243001@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] media: mxl111sf: change mutex_init() location
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2021 10:29:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210819092908.GA27679@gofer.mess.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <80648833-5f5a-0811-a281-0dba87938d3c@gmail.com>
On Sun, Aug 15, 2021 at 12:06:16PM +0300, Pavel Skripkin wrote:
> On 8/15/21 11:49 AM, Pavel Skripkin wrote:
> > On 8/15/21 11:37 AM, Sean Young wrote:
> > > On Sat, Jul 31, 2021 at 12:38:29AM +0300, Pavel Skripkin wrote:
> > > > Syzbot reported, that mxl111sf_ctrl_msg() uses uninitialized
> > > > mutex. The problem was in wrong mutex_init() location.
> > > >
> > > > Previous mutex_init(&state->msg_lock) call was in ->init() function, but
> > > > dvb_usbv2_init() has this order of calls:
> > > >
> > > > dvb_usbv2_init()
> > > > dvb_usbv2_adapter_init()
> > > > dvb_usbv2_adapter_frontend_init()
> > > > props->frontend_attach()
> > > >
> > > > props->init()
> > > >
> > > > Since mxl111sf_frontend_attach_atsc_mh() calls mxl111sf_ctrl_msg()
> > > > internally we need to initialize state->msg_lock in it to make lockdep
> > > > happy.
> > >
> > > What about the other frontends like mxl111sf_frontend_attach_dvbt? They
> > > no longer initialize the mutex.
> > >
> > Good point. I see, that all other frontends also call
> > mxl111sf_ctrl_msg() inside ->frontend_attach() call.
> >
> > I think, that fixing dvb-usb core is not good idea, so, I will add
> > mutex_init() call inside all frontends, which use mxl111sf_init().
> >
> > What do you think about it?
> >
> >
>
>
> Something like this should work. Helper is just to not copy-paste code
> parts. Build tested against v5.14-rc5
How about creating a dvb_usb_device_properties probe function and
initializing the mutex init there?
Sean
>
>
> diff --git a/drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb-v2/mxl111sf.c
> b/drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb-v2/mxl111sf.c
> index 7865fa0a8295..db1ad3815cd5 100644
> --- a/drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb-v2/mxl111sf.c
> +++ b/drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb-v2/mxl111sf.c
> @@ -49,6 +49,13 @@ MODULE_PARM_DESC(rfswitch, "force rf switch position
> (0=auto, 1=ext, 2=int).");
>
> DVB_DEFINE_MOD_OPT_ADAPTER_NR(adapter_nr);
>
> +static inline void mxl111sf_init_msg_mutex(struct dvb_usb_adapter *adap)
> +{
> + struct mxl111sf_state *state = d_to_priv(adap_to_d(adap));
> +
> + mutex_init(&state->msg_lock);
> +}
> +
> int mxl111sf_ctrl_msg(struct mxl111sf_state *state,
> u8 cmd, u8 *wbuf, int wlen, u8 *rbuf, int rlen)
> {
> @@ -931,8 +938,6 @@ static int mxl111sf_init(struct dvb_usb_device *d)
> .len = sizeof(eeprom), .buf = eeprom },
> };
>
> - mutex_init(&state->msg_lock);
> -
> ret = get_chip_info(state);
> if (mxl_fail(ret))
> pr_err("failed to get chip info during probe");
> @@ -963,16 +968,19 @@ static int mxl111sf_init(struct dvb_usb_device *d)
>
> static int mxl111sf_frontend_attach_dvbt(struct dvb_usb_adapter *adap)
> {
> + mxl111sf_init_msg_mutex(adap);
> return mxl111sf_attach_demod(adap, 0);
> }
>
> static int mxl111sf_frontend_attach_atsc(struct dvb_usb_adapter *adap)
> {
> + mxl111sf_init_msg_mutex(adap);
> return mxl111sf_lgdt3305_frontend_attach(adap, 0);
> }
>
> static int mxl111sf_frontend_attach_mh(struct dvb_usb_adapter *adap)
> {
> + mxl111sf_init_msg_mutex(adap);
> return mxl111sf_lg2160_frontend_attach(adap, 0);
> }
>
> @@ -981,6 +989,7 @@ static int mxl111sf_frontend_attach_atsc_mh(struct
> dvb_usb_adapter *adap)
> int ret;
> pr_debug("%s\n", __func__);
>
> + mxl111sf_init_msg_mutex(adap);
> ret = mxl111sf_lgdt3305_frontend_attach(adap, 0);
> if (ret < 0)
> return ret;
> @@ -1001,6 +1010,7 @@ static int mxl111sf_frontend_attach_mercury(struct
> dvb_usb_adapter *adap)
> int ret;
> pr_debug("%s\n", __func__);
>
> + mxl111sf_init_msg_mutex(adap);
> ret = mxl111sf_lgdt3305_frontend_attach(adap, 0);
> if (ret < 0)
> return ret;
> @@ -1021,6 +1031,7 @@ static int mxl111sf_frontend_attach_mercury_mh(struct
> dvb_usb_adapter *adap)
> int ret;
> pr_debug("%s\n", __func__);
>
> + mxl111sf_init_msg_mutex(adap);
> ret = mxl111sf_attach_demod(adap, 0);
> if (ret < 0)
> return ret;
>
>
>
> With regards,
> Pavel Skripkin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-08-19 9:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-07-30 21:38 [PATCH] media: mxl111sf: change mutex_init() location Pavel Skripkin
2021-08-15 8:37 ` Sean Young
2021-08-15 8:49 ` Pavel Skripkin
2021-08-15 9:06 ` Pavel Skripkin
2021-08-19 9:29 ` Sean Young [this message]
2021-08-19 9:31 ` Pavel Skripkin
2021-08-19 10:38 ` [PATCH v2] " Pavel Skripkin
2021-08-19 10:42 ` [PATCH v3] " Pavel Skripkin
2021-09-12 15:49 ` Pavel Skripkin
2021-09-15 16:40 ` Sean Young
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