On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 05:46:36PM +0800, Huang Shijie wrote: > The imx23 board will check the fingerprint, so it will call the > mx23_check_transcription_stamp. This function will use @chip->buffers->databuf > as its buffer which is allocated in the nand_scan_tail(). > > Unfortunately, the mx23_check_transcription_stamp is called before the > nand_scan_tail(). So we will meet a NULL pointer bug: > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > [ 1.150000] NAND device: Manufacturer ID: 0xec, Chip ID: 0xd7 (Samsung NAND 4GiB 3,3V 8-bit), 4096MiB, page size: 4096, OOB size: 8 > [ 1.160000] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 000005d0 > [ 1.170000] pgd = c0004000 > [ 1.170000] [000005d0] *pgd=00000000 > [ 1.180000] Internal error: Oops: 5 [#1] ARM > [ 1.180000] Modules linked in: > [ 1.180000] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper Not tainted 3.12.0 #89 > [ 1.180000] task: c7440000 ti: c743a000 task.ti: c743a000 > [ 1.180000] PC is at memcmp+0x10/0x54 > [ 1.180000] LR is at gpmi_nand_probe+0x42c/0x894 > [ 1.180000] pc : [<c025fcb0>] lr : [<c02f6a68>] psr: 20000053 > [ 1.180000] sp : c743be2c ip : 600000d3 fp : ffffffff > [ 1.180000] r10: 000005d0 r9 : c02f5f08 r8 : 00000000 > [ 1.180000] r7 : c75858a8 r6 : c75858a8 r5 : c7585b18 r4 : c7585800 > [ 1.180000] r3 : 000005d0 r2 : 00000004 r1 : c05c33e4 r0 : 000005d0 > [ 1.180000] Flags: nzCv IRQs on FIQs off Mode SVC_32 ISA ARM Segment kernel > [ 1.180000] Control: 0005317f Table: 40004000 DAC: 00000017 > [ 1.180000] Process swapper (pid: 1, stack limit = 0xc743a1c0) > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > This patch uses the local array(whose size is 4 bytes) to replace > the referencing of the @chip->buffers->databuf. > > Use the macro FINGERPRINT_LEN to avoid the hardcode. > > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx This is only for 3.12+, right, since we changed around the nand_scan_tail() behavior? (commit f720e7ce510bf79f029be45ce200ccfce5551280) > Reported-by: Fabio Estevam <festevam@xxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Huang Shijie <b32955@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > drivers/mtd/nand/gpmi-nand/gpmi-nand.c | 3 ++- > 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/gpmi-nand/gpmi-nand.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/gpmi-nand/gpmi-nand.c > index 7ac2280..d34cc54 100644 > --- a/drivers/mtd/nand/gpmi-nand/gpmi-nand.c > +++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/gpmi-nand/gpmi-nand.c > @@ -1343,6 +1343,7 @@ static int nand_boot_set_geometry(struct gpmi_nand_data *this) > } > > static const char *fingerprint = "STMP"; > +#define FINGERPRINT_LEN 4 > static int mx23_check_transcription_stamp(struct gpmi_nand_data *this) > { > struct boot_rom_geometry *rom_geo = &this->rom_geometry; > @@ -1352,7 +1353,7 @@ static int mx23_check_transcription_stamp(struct gpmi_nand_data *this) > unsigned int search_area_size_in_strides; > unsigned int stride; > unsigned int page; > - uint8_t *buffer = chip->buffers->databuf; > + uint8_t buffer[FINGERPRINT_LEN + 1]; I agree with Fabio; we don't actually need the +1. (Of course, saving 1 byte is not that much of a problem. But making the code more straightforward is.) If you "ack" I'll just drop the +1 myself. > int saved_chip_number; > int found_an_ncb_fingerprint = false; > Thanks for looking into this quickly, BTW. Brian -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html