[PATCH] blspec: fix crash when trying to boot from loop mounts

Sascha Hauer s.hauer at pengutronix.de
Sun Jan 21 23:27:10 PST 2018


On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 03:19:30PM +0100, Philipp Zabel wrote:
> 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(-)

Applied, thanks

Sascha

> 
> 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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