3.18-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@xxxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit ae61cf5b9913027c6953a79ed3894da4f47061bd ]
When both uio and the uio drivers are built in the kernel, it is possible
for a driver to register devices before the uio class is registered.
This may result in a NULL pointer dereference later on in
get_device_parent() when accessing the class glue_dirs spinlock.
The trace looks like that:
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000140
[...]
[<ffff0000089cc234>] _raw_spin_lock+0x14/0x48
[<ffff0000084f56bc>] device_add+0x154/0x6a0
[<ffff0000084f5e48>] device_create_groups_vargs+0x120/0x128
[<ffff0000084f5edc>] device_create+0x54/0x60
[<ffff0000086e72c0>] __uio_register_device+0x120/0x4a8
[<ffff000008528b7c>] jaguar2_pci_probe+0x2d4/0x558
[<ffff0000083fc18c>] local_pci_probe+0x3c/0xb8
[<ffff0000083fd81c>] pci_device_probe+0x11c/0x180
[<ffff0000084f88bc>] driver_probe_device+0x22c/0x2d8
[<ffff0000084f8a24>] __driver_attach+0xbc/0xc0
[<ffff0000084f69fc>] bus_for_each_dev+0x4c/0x98
[<ffff0000084f81b8>] driver_attach+0x20/0x28
[<ffff0000084f7d08>] bus_add_driver+0x1b8/0x228
[<ffff0000084f93c0>] driver_register+0x60/0xf8
[<ffff0000083fb918>] __pci_register_driver+0x40/0x48
Return EPROBE_DEFER in that case so the driver can register the device
later.
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/uio/uio.c | 9 +++++++++
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
--- a/drivers/uio/uio.c
+++ b/drivers/uio/uio.c
@@ -249,6 +249,8 @@ static struct class uio_class = {
.dev_groups = uio_groups,
};
+bool uio_class_registered;
+
/*
* device functions
*/
@@ -771,6 +773,9 @@ static int init_uio_class(void)
printk(KERN_ERR "class_register failed for uio\n");
goto err_class_register;
}
+
+ uio_class_registered = true;
+
return 0;
err_class_register:
@@ -781,6 +786,7 @@ exit:
static void release_uio_class(void)
{
+ uio_class_registered = false;
class_unregister(&uio_class);
uio_major_cleanup();
}
@@ -800,6 +806,9 @@ int __uio_register_device(struct module
struct uio_device *idev;
int ret = 0;
+ if (!uio_class_registered)
+ return -EPROBE_DEFER;
+
if (!parent || !info || !info->name || !info->version)
return -EINVAL;
