[PATCH v2] staging: vc04_services: Fix RCU dereference check

Padmanabha Srinivasaiah treasure4paddy at gmail.com
Thu Dec 30 06:54:11 PST 2021


In service_callback path RCU dereferenced pointer struct vchiq_service
need to be accessed inside rcu read-critical section.

Accessing same with rcu_read_[lock/unlock] fixes the issue.

[   32.201659] =============================
[   32.201664] WARNING: suspicious RCU usage
[   32.201670] 5.15.11-rt24-v8+ #3 Not tainted
[   32.201680] -----------------------------
[   32.201685] drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_core.h:529 suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage!
[   32.201695]
[   32.201695] other info that might help us debug this:
[   32.201695]
[   32.201700]
[   32.201700] rcu_scheduler_active = 2, debug_locks = 1
[   32.201708] no locks held by vchiq-slot/0/98.
[   32.201715]
[   32.201715] stack backtrace:
[   32.201723] CPU: 1 PID: 98 Comm: vchiq-slot/0 Not tainted 5.15.11-rt24-v8+ #3
[   32.201733] Hardware name: Raspberry Pi 4 Model B Rev 1.4 (DT)
[   32.201739] Call trace:
[   32.201742]  dump_backtrace+0x0/0x1b8
[   32.201772]  show_stack+0x20/0x30
[   32.201784]  dump_stack_lvl+0x8c/0xb8
[   32.201799]  dump_stack+0x18/0x34
[   32.201808]  lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0xe4/0xf8
[   32.201817]  service_callback+0x124/0x400
[   32.201830]  slot_handler_func+0xf60/0x1e20
[   32.201839]  kthread+0x19c/0x1a8
[   32.201849]  ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20

Signed-off-by: Padmanabha Srinivasaiah <treasure4paddy at gmail.com>
---
Changes in v2:
	RCU dereferenced pointer need to be accessed inside rcu
read-side critical section.

 .../vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_arm.c      | 10 ++++++++--
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_arm.c b/drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_arm.c
index 6759a6261500..8ddd400ab2c3 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_arm.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_arm.c
@@ -1053,24 +1053,30 @@ service_callback(enum vchiq_reason reason, struct vchiq_header *header,
 	struct vchiq_service *service;
 	struct vchiq_instance *instance;
 	bool skip_completion = false;
+	unsigned int localport;
 
 	DEBUG_INITIALISE(g_state.local);
 
 	DEBUG_TRACE(SERVICE_CALLBACK_LINE);
 
+	rcu_read_lock();
 	service = handle_to_service(handle);
-	if (WARN_ON(!service))
+	if (WARN_ON(!service)) {
+		rcu_read_unlock();
 		return VCHIQ_SUCCESS;
+	}
 
 	user_service = (struct user_service *)service->base.userdata;
 	instance = user_service->instance;
+	localport = service->localport;
+	rcu_read_unlock();
 
 	if (!instance || instance->closing)
 		return VCHIQ_SUCCESS;
 
 	vchiq_log_trace(vchiq_arm_log_level,
 			"%s - service %lx(%d,%p), reason %d, header %lx, instance %lx, bulk_userdata %lx",
-			__func__, (unsigned long)user_service, service->localport,
+			__func__, (unsigned long)user_service, (int)localport,
 			user_service->userdata, reason, (unsigned long)header,
 			(unsigned long)instance, (unsigned long)bulk_userdata);
 
-- 
2.17.1




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