From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Linyu Yuan <quic_linyyuan@quicinc.com>,
linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [REGRESSION 5.19] NULL dereference by ucsi_acpi driver
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2022 18:32:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r11cmbx0.wl-tiwai@suse.de> (raw)
Hi,
we've got multiple reports about 5.19 kernel starting crashing after
some time, and this turned out to be triggered by ucsi_acpi driver.
The details are found in:
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1202386
The culprit seems to be the commit 87d0e2f41b8c
usb: typec: ucsi: add a common function ucsi_unregister_connectors()
This commit looks as if it were a harmless cleanup, but this failed in
a subtle way. Namely, in the error scenario, the driver gets an error
at ucsi_register_altmodes(), and goes to the error handling to release
the resources. Through this refactoring, the release part was unified
to a funciton ucsi_unregister_connectors(). And there, it has a NULL
check of con->wq, and it bails out the loop if it's NULL.
Meanwhile, ucsi_register_port() itself still calls destroy_workqueue()
and clear con->wq at its error path. This ended up in the leftover
power supply device with the uninitialized / cleared device.
It was confirmed that the problem could be avoided by a simple
revert.
I guess another fix could be removing the part clearing con->wq, i.e.
--- a/drivers/usb/typec/ucsi/ucsi.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/typec/ucsi/ucsi.c
@@ -1192,11 +1192,6 @@ static int ucsi_register_port(struct ucsi *ucsi, int index)
out_unlock:
mutex_unlock(&con->lock);
- if (ret && con->wq) {
- destroy_workqueue(con->wq);
- con->wq = NULL;
- }
-
return ret;
}
... but it's totally untested and I'm not entirely sure whether it's
better.
thanks,
Takashi
next reply other threads:[~2022-08-19 17:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-08-19 16:32 Takashi Iwai [this message]
2022-08-20 18:40 ` [REGRESSION 5.19] NULL dereference by ucsi_acpi driver Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-08-22 2:44 ` Linyu Yuan
2022-08-30 12:51 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-08-30 12:53 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-08-22 13:24 ` Heikki Krogerus
2022-08-23 2:26 ` Linyu Yuan
2022-08-23 6:41 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-08-23 6:52 ` Takashi Iwai
2022-08-24 9:50 ` Thorsten Leemhuis
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