[PATCH v4] mtd: rawnand: meson: initialize struct with zeroes

Miquel Raynal miquel.raynal at bootlin.com
Tue Mar 7 11:21:33 PST 2023


On Mon, 2023-02-27 at 10:24:25 UTC, Arseniy Krasnov wrote:
> This structure must be zeroed, because it's field 'hw->core' is used as
> 'parent' in 'clk_core_fill_parent_index()', but it will be uninitialized.
> This happens, because when this struct is not zeroed, pointer 'hw' is
> "initialized" by garbage, which is valid pointer, but points to some
> garbage. So 'hw' will be dereferenced, but 'core' contains some random
> data which will be interpreted as a pointer. The following backtrace is
> result of dereference of such pointer:
> 
> [    1.081319]  __clk_register+0x414/0x820
> [    1.085113]  devm_clk_register+0x64/0xd0
> [    1.088995]  meson_nfc_probe+0x258/0x6ec
> [    1.092875]  platform_probe+0x70/0xf0
> [    1.096498]  really_probe+0xc8/0x3e0
> [    1.100034]  __driver_probe_device+0x84/0x190
> [    1.104346]  driver_probe_device+0x44/0x120
> [    1.108487]  __driver_attach+0xb4/0x220
> [    1.112282]  bus_for_each_dev+0x78/0xd0
> [    1.116077]  driver_attach+0x2c/0x40
> [    1.119613]  bus_add_driver+0x184/0x240
> [    1.123408]  driver_register+0x80/0x140
> [    1.127203]  __platform_driver_register+0x30/0x40
> [    1.131860]  meson_nfc_driver_init+0x24/0x30
> 
> Changelog:
> v1 -> v2:
>  * More details in the commit message.
> v2 -> v3:
>  * Add 'a' article to "interpreted as a pointer".
> v3 -> v4:
>  * Add changelog.
> 
> Fixes: 1e4d3ba66888 ("mtd: rawnand: meson: fix the clock")
> Signed-off-by: Arseniy Krasnov <AVKrasnov at sberdevices.ru>
> Acked-by: Martin Blumenstingl <martin.blumenstingl at googlemail.com>
> Reviewed-by: Neil Armstrong <neil.armstrong at linaro.org>

Applied to https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mtd/linux.git mtd/fixes, thanks.

Miquel



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