[PATCH] net:fec: fixed unaligned access and stack corruption

Ahmad Fatoum a.fatoum at pengutronix.de
Tue Jul 7 13:11:31 EDT 2020


On 7/7/20 6:01 PM, Enrico Scholz wrote:
> on 64 bit architectures, the 'enum fec_type' might not be aligned and
> large enough to hold a pointer.  

I am wondering if we couldn't just adopt the Linux prototype:
void *dev_get_drvdata(const struct device_d *dev);

and do away with the error code and most of the casts.
Users won't be able to differentiate between NULL from id table
and NULL due to lack of drvdata, but I don't think this is
that much of a downside, compared with not having casts obscure
the more common pitfall (besides fec_imx.c, lm75.c, apbh_dma.c and nand_mxs.c
are affected as well of which probably only the first is an issue.)

@Sascha, thoughts?

> When running barebox without MMU,
> this will crash like
> 
> | i.MX8MM unique ID: dab4b7491a2c4209
> | DABT (current EL) exception (ESR 0x96000061) at 0x00000000fffefeb4
> | elr: 00000000ffe14c28 lr : 00000000ffe196e0
> | x0 : 0000000000000002 x1 : 00000000fffefeb4
> | x2 : 00000000ffe91370 x3 : 00000000bfe1b6e8
> | x4 : 0000000000000000 x5 : 0000000011000000
> | ...
> | Call trace:
> | [<ffe14c28>] (dev_get_drvdata+0xc/0x30) from [<ffe1446c>] (device_probe+0x54/0xd0)
> | [<ffe1446c>] (device_probe+0x54/0xd0) from [<ffe14530>] (match+0x48/0x58)
> | [<ffe14530>] (match+0x48/0x58) from [<ffe14a64>] (register_driver+0xc0/0xd0)
> | [<ffe14a64>] (register_driver+0xc0/0xd0) from [<ffe01738>] (start_barebox+0x64/0x90)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Enrico Scholz <enrico.scholz at sigma-chemnitz.de>
> ---
>  drivers/net/fec_imx.c | 5 ++++-
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/fec_imx.c b/drivers/net/fec_imx.c
> index 772f930f0d08..30ee7841faba 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/fec_imx.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/fec_imx.c
> @@ -739,14 +739,17 @@ static int fec_probe(struct device_d *dev)
>  	void *base;
>  	int ret;
>  	enum fec_type type;
> +	void const *type_v;
>  	int phy_reset;
>  	u32 msec = 1, phy_post_delay = 0;
>  	u32 reg;
>  
> -	ret = dev_get_drvdata(dev, (const void **)&type);
> +	ret = dev_get_drvdata(dev, &type_v);
>  	if (ret)
>  		return ret;
>  
> +	type = (uintptr_t)(type_v);
> +
>  	fec = xzalloc(sizeof(*fec));
>  	fec->type = type;
>  	fec->dev = dev;
> 

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