From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-19.4 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIMWL_WL_HIGH, DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, INCLUDES_CR_TRAILER,INCLUDES_PATCH,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS, USER_AGENT_GIT autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05864C43462 for ; Wed, 12 May 2021 18:45:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C820061432 for ; Wed, 12 May 2021 18:45:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1358743AbhELSor (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 May 2021 14:44:47 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:36108 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S243726AbhELQl6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 May 2021 12:41:58 -0400 Received: by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 410C361CF4; Wed, 12 May 2021 16:06:17 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1620835577; bh=TH9HxxzcUuVWYmDueDD75n9GZ1q7nkDozQBjGxUNubM=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=GdEFqUfhwYbaKupGXJkiDxYsDeAFb6VZqjaAiQfEsw2fbipCuWQ/pvNipN//kAj3d Ot3tHLFIEvyuZ28SXn7fYfdyA98SNnHfo0kvGBHB1J+y1T+SrwhQ+ZHFpBase+l20A ZWnDgmM0oVhxyHiqiNPyGBkdh/Anx8RzM/hwonGY= From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig , Kevin Tian , Max Gurtovoy , Cornelia Huck , Jason Gunthorpe , Alex Williamson , Sasha Levin Subject: [PATCH 5.12 400/677] vfio/mdev: Do not allow a mdev_type to have a NULL parent pointer Date: Wed, 12 May 2021 16:47:26 +0200 Message-Id: <20210512144850.623620559@linuxfoundation.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.31.1 In-Reply-To: <20210512144837.204217980@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20210512144837.204217980@linuxfoundation.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.66 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Jason Gunthorpe [ Upstream commit b5a1f8921d5040bb788492bf33a66758021e4be5 ] There is a small race where the parent is NULL even though the kobj has already been made visible in sysfs. For instance the attribute_group is made visible in sysfs_create_files() and the mdev_type_attr_show() does: ret = attr->show(kobj, type->parent->dev, buf); Which will crash on NULL parent. Move the parent setup to before the type pointer leaves the stack frame. Fixes: 7b96953bc640 ("vfio: Mediated device Core driver") Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Reviewed-by: Kevin Tian Reviewed-by: Max Gurtovoy Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe Message-Id: <2-v2-d36939638fc6+d54-vfio2_jgg@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin --- drivers/vfio/mdev/mdev_sysfs.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/vfio/mdev/mdev_sysfs.c b/drivers/vfio/mdev/mdev_sysfs.c index 917fd84c1c6f..367ff5412a38 100644 --- a/drivers/vfio/mdev/mdev_sysfs.c +++ b/drivers/vfio/mdev/mdev_sysfs.c @@ -105,6 +105,7 @@ static struct mdev_type *add_mdev_supported_type(struct mdev_parent *parent, return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); type->kobj.kset = parent->mdev_types_kset; + type->parent = parent; ret = kobject_init_and_add(&type->kobj, &mdev_type_ktype, NULL, "%s-%s", dev_driver_string(parent->dev), @@ -132,7 +133,6 @@ static struct mdev_type *add_mdev_supported_type(struct mdev_parent *parent, } type->group = group; - type->parent = parent; return type; attrs_failed: -- 2.30.2