[PATCH] blspec: fix crash when trying to boot from loop mounts
Philipp Zabel
p.zabel at pengutronix.de
Thu Jan 18 06:19:30 PST 2018
When trying to boot from a loop mount path, the blspec code passes a
NULL pointer to dev_name, because cdev->dev is not set for loop mounts:
unable to handle NULL pointer dereference at address 0x00000020
pc : [<4fe09e28>] lr : [<4fe02305>]
sp : 4ffef7c0 ip : 31b75c78 fp : 31b6a388
r10: 31b6a368 r9 : 315a4cac r8 : 00000001
r7 : 00000001 r6 : 311b8540 r5 : ffffffea r4 : 31b6a3f8
r3 : 00000000 r2 : 10000000 r1 : 00000001 r0 : 00000000
Flags: nzcv IRQs off FIQs off Mode SVC_32
[<4fe09e28>] (dev_id+0xc/0x38) from [<4fe02305>] (blspec_scan_directory+0x3e1/0x484)
[<4fe02305>] (blspec_scan_directory+0x3e1/0x484) from [<4fe02551>] (blspec_bootentry_provider+0x1d/0x3c)
[<4fe02551>] (blspec_bootentry_provider+0x1d/0x3c) from [<4fe0984b>] (bootentry_create_from_name+0x23/0xdc)
[<4fe0984b>] (bootentry_create_from_name+0x23/0xdc) from [<4fe246f9>] (do_boot+0x95/0x160)
[<4fe246f9>] (do_boot+0x95/0x160) from [<4fe032e9>] (execute_command+0x21/0x48)
[<4fe032e9>] (execute_command+0x21/0x48) from [<4fe088e3>] (run_list_real+0x56b/0x634)
[<4fe088e3>] (run_list_real+0x56b/0x634) from [<4fe08249>] (parse_stream_outer+0xd9/0x164)
[<4fe08249>] (parse_stream_outer+0xd9/0x164) from [<4fe08b6d>] (run_shell+0x31/0x60)
[<4fe08b6d>] (run_shell+0x31/0x60) from [<4fe032e9>] (execute_command+0x21/0x48)
[<4fe032e9>] (execute_command+0x21/0x48) from [<4fe088e3>] (run_list_real+0x56b/0x634)
[<4fe088e3>] (run_list_real+0x56b/0x634) from [<4fe085fd>] (run_list_real+0x285/0x634)
[<4fe444b9>] (unwind_backtrace+0x1/0x58) from [<4fe00b7d>] (panic+0x1d/0x34)
[<4fe00b7d>] (panic+0x1d/0x34) from [<4fe42a75>] (do_exception+0xd/0x10)
[<4fe42a75>] (do_exception+0xd/0x10) from [<4fe42ad5>] (do_data_abort+0x21/0x2c)
[<4fe42ad5>] (do_data_abort+0x21/0x2c) from [<4fe42394>] (do_abort_6+0x48/0x54)
Fix this by checking cdev->dev as well as cdev before calling dev_name.
Signed-off-by: Philipp Zabel <p.zabel at pengutronix.de>
---
common/blspec.c | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/common/blspec.c b/common/blspec.c
index b258e6600b..6171461a72 100644
--- a/common/blspec.c
+++ b/common/blspec.c
@@ -107,7 +107,8 @@ static int blspec_boot(struct bootentry *be, int verbose, int dryrun)
}
pr_info("booting %s from %s\n", blspec_entry_var_get(entry, "title"),
- entry->cdev ? dev_name(entry->cdev->dev) : "none");
+ (entry->cdev && entry->cdev->dev) ?
+ dev_name(entry->cdev->dev) : "none");
ret = bootm_boot(&data);
if (ret)
@@ -505,7 +506,7 @@ int blspec_scan_directory(struct bootentries *bootentries, const char *root)
found++;
- if (entry->cdev) {
+ if (entry->cdev && entry->cdev->dev) {
devname = xstrdup(dev_name(entry->cdev->dev));
if (entry->cdev->dev->parent)
hwdevname = xstrdup(dev_name(entry->cdev->dev->parent));
--
2.11.0
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