From: Grygorii Strashko <grygorii.strashko@ti.com>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>, <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
Mugunthan V N <mugunthanvnm@ti.com>
Cc: Sekhar Nori <nsekhar@ti.com>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
<linux-omap@vger.kernel.org>,
Ivan Khoronzhuk <ivan.khoronzhuk@linaro.org>,
Grygorii Strashko <grygorii.strashko@ti.com>
Subject: [PATCH] net: ethernet: ti: davinci_cpdma: fix access to uninitialized variable in cpdma_chan_set_descs()
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2016 17:42:13 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161228234213.22166-1-grygorii.strashko@ti.com> (raw)
Now below code sequence causes "Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer
dereference.." exception and system crash during CPSW CPDMA initialization:
cpsw_probe
|-cpdma_chan_create (TX channel)
|-cpdma_chan_split_pool
|-cpdma_chan_set_descs(for TX channels)
|-cpdma_chan_set_descs(for RX channels) [1]
- and -
static void cpdma_chan_set_descs(struct cpdma_ctlr *ctlr,
int rx, int desc_num,
int per_ch_desc)
{
struct cpdma_chan *chan, *most_chan = NULL;
...
for (i = min; i < max; i++) {
chan = ctlr->channels[i];
if (!chan)
continue;
...
if (most_dnum < chan->desc_num) {
most_dnum = chan->desc_num;
most_chan = chan;
}
}
/* use remains */
most_chan->desc_num += desc_cnt; [2]
}
So, most_chan value will never be reassigned when cpdma_chan_set_descs() is
called second time [1], because there are no RX channels yet and system
will crash at [2].
Hence, fix the issue by checking most_chan for NULL before accessing it.
Fixes: 0fc6432cc78d ("net: ethernet: ti: davinci_cpdma: add weight function for channels")
Signed-off-by: Grygorii Strashko <grygorii.strashko@ti.com>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/ti/davinci_cpdma.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/davinci_cpdma.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/davinci_cpdma.c
index 36518fc..b349d572 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/davinci_cpdma.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/davinci_cpdma.c
@@ -708,7 +708,8 @@ static void cpdma_chan_set_descs(struct cpdma_ctlr *ctlr,
}
}
/* use remains */
- most_chan->desc_num += desc_cnt;
+ if (most_chan)
+ most_chan->desc_num += desc_cnt;
}
/**
--
2.10.1.dirty
next reply other threads:[~2016-12-28 23:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-28 23:42 Grygorii Strashko [this message]
2016-12-29 1:49 ` [PATCH] net: ethernet: ti: davinci_cpdma: fix access to uninitialized variable in cpdma_chan_set_descs() Ivan Khoronzhuk
2016-12-29 16:04 ` Grygorii Strashko
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