Re: [PATCH] drm: inhibit drm drivers register to uninitialized drm core

[Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>]

On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 9:14 AM, Alexandru Moise
<00moses.alexander00@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 08:52:46AM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
>> On Sat, Jul 08, 2017 at 11:43:52PM +0200, Alexandru Moise wrote:
>> > If the DRM core fails to init for whatever reason, ensure that
>> > no driver ever calls drm_dev_register().
>> >
>> > This is best done at drm_dev_init() as it covers drivers that call
>> > drm_dev_alloc() as well as drivers that prefer to embed struct
>> > drm_device into their own device struct and call drm_dev_init()
>> > themselves.
>> >
>> > In my case I had so many dynamic device majors used that the major
>> > number for DRM (226) was stolen, causing DRM core init to fail after
>> > failing to register a chrdev, and ultimately calling debugfs_remove()
>> > on drm_debugfs_root in drm_core_exit().
>> >
>> > After drm core failed to init, VGEM was still calling drm_dev_register(),
>> > ultimately leading to drm_debugfs_init(), with drm_debugfs_root passed
>> > as the root for the new debugfs dir at debugfs_create_dir().
>> >
>> > This led to a kernel panic once we were either derefencing root->d_inode
>> > while it was NULL or calling root->d_inode->i_op->lookup() while it was
>> > NULL in debugfs at inode_lock() or lookup_*().
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Alexandru Moise <00moses.alexander00@gmail.com>
>> > ---
>> >  drivers/gpu/drm/drm_drv.c | 16 ++++++++++++++++
>> >  1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)
>> >
>> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_drv.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_drv.c
>> > index 37b8ad3e30d8..2ed2d919beae 100644
>> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_drv.c
>> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_drv.c
>> > @@ -63,6 +63,15 @@ module_param_named(debug, drm_debug, int, 0600);
>> >  static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(drm_minor_lock);
>> >  static struct idr drm_minors_idr;
>> >
>> > +/*
>> > + * If the drm core fails to init for whatever reason,
>> > + * we should prevent any drivers from registering with it.
>> > + * It's best to check this at drm_dev_init(), as some drivers
>> > + * prefer to embed struct drm_device into their own device
>> > + * structure and call drm_dev_init() themselves.
>> > + */
>> > +static bool drm_core_init_complete = false;
>> > +
>> >  static struct dentry *drm_debugfs_root;
>> >
>> >  #define DRM_PRINTK_FMT "[" DRM_NAME ":%s]%s %pV"
>> > @@ -484,6 +493,11 @@ int drm_dev_init(struct drm_device *dev,
>> >  {
>> >     int ret;
>> >
>> > +   if (!drm_core_init_complete) {
>> > +           DRM_ERROR("DRM core is not initialized\n");
>> > +           return -ENODEV;
>> > +   }
>> > +
>> >     kref_init(&dev->ref);
>> >     dev->dev = parent;
>> >     dev->driver = driver;
>> > @@ -966,6 +980,8 @@ static int __init drm_core_init(void)
>> >     if (ret < 0)
>> >             goto error;
>> >
>> > +   drm_core_init_complete = true;
>> > +
>> >     DRM_DEBUG("Initialized\n");
>> >     return 0;
>>
>> Isn't the correct fix to pass down the error value, which iirc should
>> make the kmod stuff unload the module again? Or does this not work'
>> -Daniel
>
> What if everything is built in?

I feared that would be the answer :-/ Still feels funny that everyone
will need to hand-roll this, or does everyone simply assume that their
subsystem's module_init never fails?

Adding a pile of kmod and driver folks in the hopes of getting a
better answer. If there's no better answer pls remind me to merge your
patch in 1-2 weeks, I'll likely forget ...
-Daniel
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Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
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