Nokia N900: refcount_t underflow, use after free

Pavel Machek pavel at ucw.cz
Sat Mar 10 03:26:34 PST 2018


Hi!

> >>> Well, there certainly seems to be an obvious bug wherein
> >>> isp_detach_iommu() just releases the mapping directly without calling
> >>> arm_iommu_detach_device() to balance the equivalent attach. That can't
> >>> be helping.
> >>
> >> Indeed, I have been able to reproduce the same warning using a
> >> standalone test module, and the missing arm_iommu_detach_device() is
> >> causing the warning after probe (during failure path) or during
> >> remove.
> > 
> > Ok do you have an idea how to fix the isp error paths? Untested patch
> > would be fine... But it seems that you know what needs to be fixed and
> > I don't.
> > 
> 
> OK, see if the following fixes the issue for you, only build tested.

Word-wrapped, so I applied by hand. And yes, the oops at boot is
gone. Thanks!

(Camera still does not work in -next... kills system. Oh well. Lets
debug that some other day.)

> 8< ---------------------
> >From bac9a48fb646dc51f2030d676a0dbe3298c3b134 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Suman Anna <s-anna at ti.com>
> Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2018 16:39:59 -0600
> Subject: [PATCH] media: omap3isp: fix unbalanced dma_iommu_mapping
> 
> The OMAP3 ISP driver manages its MMU mappings through the IOMMU-aware
> ARM DMA backend. The current code creates a dma_iommu_mapping and
> attaches this to the ISP device, but never detaches the mapping in
> either the probe failure paths or the driver remove path resulting
> in an unbalanced mapping refcount and a memory leak. Fix this properly.
> 
> Reported-by: Pavel Machek <pavel at ucw.cz>
> Signed-off-by: Suman Anna <s-anna at ti.com>

Tested-by: Pavel Machek <pavel at ucw.cz>
									Pavel

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