Julian, Jiri,
On my laptop I'm getting a kernel page fault with the current git
tree, and I'm tentatively blaming commit
9ee3e06610fd ("HID: i2c-hid: override HID descriptors for certain devices")
but that's simply because it's the only thing that seems to touch this
particular area in this merge window.
The oops looks like this:
BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 000000007a25d598
PGD 0 P4D 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI
CPU: 1 PID: 888 Comm: systemd-udevd Not tainted 4.19.0-07715-g345671ea0f92 #4
Hardware name: Dell Inc. XPS 13 9350/09JHRY, BIOS 1.7.0 01/16/2018
RIP: 0010:strstr+0x19/0x70
where the code disassembly (and the register contents) shows that the
wild pointer is the first argument to "strstr()", which just has a
bogus value that is not a valid kernel pointer (RDI: 000000007a25d598
- which is obviously also the address of the page fault)
The call trace is:
dmi_matches+0x55/0xc0
dmi_first_match+0x26/0x40
i2c_hid_get_dmi_i2c_hid_desc_override+0x16/0x40 [i2c_hid]
i2c_hid_probe+0x28c/0x760 [i2c_hid]
i2c_device_probe+0x1e7/0x260
really_probe+0xf8/0x3e0
driver_probe_device+0x10f/0x120
bus_for_each_drv+0x66/0xb0
__device_attach+0xd9/0x150
bus_probe_device+0x8a/0xa0
device_add+0x48e/0x660
i2c_new_device+0x162/0x350
which is why I suspect that new i2c_hid_get_dmi_hid_report_desc_override() code.
I *think* the problem is that the i2c_hid_dmi_desc_override_table[]
isn't terminated by a NULL entry, and I will test that next.
What makes me *very* unhappy about this is that if I'm right, I think
it means that code was literally not tested at all by anybody who
didn't have one of the entries in that list.
Linus
