Re: [patch] PCI: check the return value of device_create_bin_file() in pci_create_bus()

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On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 12:39:31PM +0200, Sven Wegener wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Aug 2008, Simon Horman wrote:
> 
> > Check the return value of device_create_bin_file in pci_create_bus,
> > unwind if neccessary, and propogate any errors to the caller.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > --- 
> > 
> > drivers/pci/probe.c: In function `pci_create_bus':
> > drivers/pci/probe.c:66: warning: ignoring return value of `device_create_bin_file', declared with attribute warn_unused_result
> > drivers/pci/probe.c:74: warning: ignoring return value of `device_create_bin_file', declared with attribute warn_unused_result
> > 
> > # ia64-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc --version
> > ia64-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc (GCC) 3.4.5
> > Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> > This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
> > warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
> > 
> > Index: linux-2.6/drivers/pci/probe.c
> > ===================================================================
> > --- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/pci/probe.c	2008-08-05 19:58:43.000000000 +1000
> > +++ linux-2.6/drivers/pci/probe.c	2008-08-05 19:59:15.000000000 +1000
> > @@ -53,26 +53,37 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(no_pci_devices);
> >   * a per-bus basis.  This routine creates the files and ties them into
> >   * their associated read, write and mmap files from pci-sysfs.c
> >   */
> > -static void pci_create_legacy_files(struct pci_bus *b)
> > +static int pci_create_legacy_files(struct pci_bus *b)
> >  {
> > +	int error;
> > +
> >  	b->legacy_io = kzalloc(sizeof(struct bin_attribute) * 2,
> >  			       GFP_ATOMIC);
> > -	if (b->legacy_io) {
> > -		b->legacy_io->attr.name = "legacy_io";
> > -		b->legacy_io->size = 0xffff;
> > -		b->legacy_io->attr.mode = S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR;
> > -		b->legacy_io->read = pci_read_legacy_io;
> > -		b->legacy_io->write = pci_write_legacy_io;
> > -		device_create_bin_file(&b->dev, b->legacy_io);
> > -
> > -		/* Allocated above after the legacy_io struct */
> > -		b->legacy_mem = b->legacy_io + 1;
> > -		b->legacy_mem->attr.name = "legacy_mem";
> > -		b->legacy_mem->size = 1024*1024;
> > -		b->legacy_mem->attr.mode = S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR;
> > -		b->legacy_mem->mmap = pci_mmap_legacy_mem;
> > -		device_create_bin_file(&b->dev, b->legacy_mem);
> > +	if (!b->legacy_io)
> > +		return -ENOMEM;
> > +
> > +	b->legacy_io->attr.name = "legacy_io";
> > +	b->legacy_io->size = 0xffff;
> > +	b->legacy_io->attr.mode = S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR;
> > +	b->legacy_io->read = pci_read_legacy_io;
> > +	b->legacy_io->write = pci_write_legacy_io;
> > +	error = device_create_bin_file(&b->dev, b->legacy_io);
> > +	if (error)
> > +		return error;
> 
> I'd release the memory here and NULLify legacy_io.
> 
> > +
> > +	/* Allocated above after the legacy_io struct */
> > +	b->legacy_mem = b->legacy_io + 1;
> > +	b->legacy_mem->attr.name = "legacy_mem";
> > +	b->legacy_mem->size = 1024*1024;
> > +	b->legacy_mem->attr.mode = S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR;
> > +	b->legacy_mem->mmap = pci_mmap_legacy_mem;
> > +	error = device_create_bin_file(&b->dev, b->legacy_mem);
> > +	if (error) {
> > +		device_remove_bin_file(&b->dev, b->legacy_io);
> > +		return error;
> 
> Here too.
> 
> Reason: If we fail to create the legacy_io file, legacy_mem will still be 
> NULL, because it has been not initialized at that point. But we will try 
> to remove it in pci_remove_legacy_files and in sysfs_remove_bin_file 
> we're going to derefence it and blow up.

Yes, sorry, my bad.



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