From: Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan <sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 388bcc6ecc609fca1b4920de7dc3806c98ec535e ] If platform bus driver registration is failed then, accessing platform bus spin lock (&drv->driver.bus->p->klist_drivers.k_lock) in __platform_driver_probe() without verifying the return value __platform_driver_register() can lead to NULL pointer exception. So check the return value before attempting the spin lock. One such example is below: For a custom usecase, I have intentionally failed the platform bus registration and I expected all the platform device/driver registrations to fail gracefully. But I came across this panic issue. [ 1.331067] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 00000000000000c8 [ 1.331118] #PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode [ 1.331163] #PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page [ 1.331208] PGD 0 P4D 0 [ 1.331233] Oops: 0002 [#1] PREEMPT SMP [ 1.331268] CPU: 3 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Tainted: G W 5.6.0-00049-g670d35fb0144 #165 [ 1.331341] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015 [ 1.331406] RIP: 0010:_raw_spin_lock+0x15/0x30 [ 1.331588] RSP: 0000:ffffc9000001be70 EFLAGS: 00010246 [ 1.331632] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 00000000000000c8 RCX: 0000000000000001 [ 1.331696] RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 0000000000000092 RDI: 0000000000000000 [ 1.331754] RBP: 00000000ffffffed R08: 0000000000000501 R09: 0000000000000001 [ 1.331817] R10: ffff88817abcc520 R11: 0000000000000670 R12: 00000000ffffffed [ 1.331881] R13: ffffffff82dbc268 R14: ffffffff832f070a R15: 0000000000000000 [ 1.331945] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88817bd80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 1.332008] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 1.332062] CR2: 00000000000000c8 CR3: 000000000681e001 CR4: 00000000003606e0 [ 1.332126] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 [ 1.332189] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 [ 1.332252] Call Trace: [ 1.332281] __platform_driver_probe+0x92/0xee [ 1.332323] ? rtc_dev_init+0x2b/0x2b [ 1.332358] cmos_init+0x37/0x67 [ 1.332396] do_one_initcall+0x7d/0x168 [ 1.332428] kernel_init_freeable+0x16c/0x1c9 [ 1.332473] ? rest_init+0xc0/0xc0 [ 1.332508] kernel_init+0x5/0x100 [ 1.332543] ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 [ 1.332579] CR2: 00000000000000c8 [ 1.332616] ---[ end trace 3bd87f12e9010b87 ]--- [ 1.333549] note: swapper/0[1] exited with preempt_count 1 [ 1.333592] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x00000009 [ 1.333736] Kernel Offset: disabled Note, this can only be triggered if a driver errors out from this call, which should never happen. If it does, the driver needs to be fixed. Signed-off-by: Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan <sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200408214003.3356-1-sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/base/platform.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/base/platform.c b/drivers/base/platform.c index bcb6519fe211..0ee3cab88f70 100644 --- a/drivers/base/platform.c +++ b/drivers/base/platform.c @@ -702,6 +702,8 @@ int __init_or_module __platform_driver_probe(struct platform_driver *drv, /* temporary section violation during probe() */ drv->probe = probe; retval = code = __platform_driver_register(drv, module); + if (retval) + return retval; /* * Fixup that section violation, being paranoid about code scanning -- 2.25.1
