[PATCH v4 8/9] iommu: Remove unused argument in is_attach_deferred

Tony Lindgren tony at atomide.com
Wed Mar 30 23:25:20 PDT 2022


Hi,

* Jason Gunthorpe <jgg at nvidia.com> [220330 17:31]:
> On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 08:19:37PM +0300, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> 
> > > > __iommu_probe_device from probe_iommu_group+0x2c/0x38
> > > > probe_iommu_group from bus_for_each_dev+0x74/0xbc
> > > > bus_for_each_dev from bus_iommu_probe+0x34/0x2e8
> > > > bus_iommu_probe from bus_set_iommu+0x80/0xc8
> > > > bus_set_iommu from omap_iommu_init+0x88/0xcc
> > > > omap_iommu_init from do_one_initcall+0x44/0x24c
> > > > 
> > > > Any ideas for a fix?
> > > > 
> > > > It would be good to fix this quickly so we don't end up with a broken
> > > > v5.18-rc1..
> > > > 
> > > > For reference, this is mainline commit 41bb23e70b50 ("iommu: Remove unused
> > > > argument in is_attach_deferred").
> > > 
> > > Are you confident in the bisection? I don't see how that commit could
> > > NULL deref..
> > 
> > Oops sorry you're right, the breaking commit is a different patch, it's
> > 3f6634d997db ("iommu: Use right way to retrieve iommu_ops") instead. I must
> > have picked the wrong commit while testing.
> 
> That makes alot more sense
>  
> > > Can you find the code that is the NULL deref?
> > 
> > I can debug a bit more tomorrow.
> 
> Looks like omap's omap_iommu_probe_device() is buggy, it returns 0 on
> error paths:
> 
> 	num_iommus = of_property_count_elems_of_size(dev->of_node, "iommus",
> 						     sizeof(phandle));
> 	if (num_iommus < 0)
> 		return 0;
> 
> This function needs to return an errno -ENODEV
> 
> Otherwise it causes a NULL dev->iommu->iommu_dev and dev_iommu_ops() will
> crash.

You got it. This fixes the issue for me. Looks like the regression already
happened earlier and recent changes just expose it.

For reference, fix posted at:

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-iommu/20220331062301.24269-1-tony@atomide.com/T/#u

Regards,

Tony



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