The control device has no drvdata. So we will get a
NULL pointer dereference when accessing control
device's msg_timeout attribute via sysfs:
[ 132.841881][ T3644] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 00000000000000f8
[ 132.850619][ T3644] RIP: 0010:msg_timeout_show (drivers/vdpa/vdpa_user/vduse_dev.c:1271)
[ 132.869447][ T3644] dev_attr_show (drivers/base/core.c:2094)
[ 132.870215][ T3644] sysfs_kf_seq_show (fs/sysfs/file.c:59)
[ 132.871164][ T3644] ? device_remove_bin_file (drivers/base/core.c:2088)
[ 132.872082][ T3644] kernfs_seq_show (fs/kernfs/file.c:164)
[ 132.872838][ T3644] seq_read_iter (fs/seq_file.c:230)
[ 132.873578][ T3644] ? __vmalloc_area_node (mm/vmalloc.c:3041)
[ 132.874532][ T3644] kernfs_fop_read_iter (fs/kernfs/file.c:238)
[ 132.875513][ T3644] __kernel_read (fs/read_write.c:440 (discriminator 1))
[ 132.876319][ T3644] kernel_read (fs/read_write.c:459)
[ 132.877129][ T3644] kernel_read_file (fs/kernel_read_file.c:94)
[ 132.877978][ T3644] kernel_read_file_from_fd (include/linux/file.h:45 fs/kernel_read_file.c:186)
[ 132.879019][ T3644] __do_sys_finit_module (kernel/module.c:4207)
[ 132.879930][ T3644] __ia32_sys_finit_module (kernel/module.c:4189)
[ 132.880930][ T3644] do_int80_syscall_32 (arch/x86/entry/common.c:112 arch/x86/entry/common.c:132)
[ 132.881847][ T3644] entry_INT80_compat (arch/x86/entry/entry_64_compat.S:419)
To fix it, don't create the unneeded attribute for
control device anymore.
Fixes: c8a6153b6c59 ("vduse: Introduce VDUSE - vDPA Device in Userspace")
Reported-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Xie Yongji <xieyongji@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/vdpa/vdpa_user/vduse_dev.c | 7 +++----
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/vdpa/vdpa_user/vduse_dev.c b/drivers/vdpa/vdpa_user/vduse_dev.c
index f85d1a08ed87..160e40d03084 100644
--- a/drivers/vdpa/vdpa_user/vduse_dev.c
+++ b/drivers/vdpa/vdpa_user/vduse_dev.c
@@ -1344,9 +1344,9 @@ static int vduse_create_dev(struct vduse_dev_config *config,
dev->minor = ret;
dev->msg_timeout = VDUSE_MSG_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT;
- dev->dev = device_create(vduse_class, NULL,
- MKDEV(MAJOR(vduse_major), dev->minor),
- dev, "%s", config->name);
+ dev->dev = device_create_with_groups(vduse_class, NULL,
+ MKDEV(MAJOR(vduse_major), dev->minor),
+ dev, vduse_dev_groups, "%s", config->name);
if (IS_ERR(dev->dev)) {
ret = PTR_ERR(dev->dev);
goto err_dev;
@@ -1595,7 +1595,6 @@ static int vduse_init(void)
return PTR_ERR(vduse_class);
vduse_class->devnode = vduse_devnode;
- vduse_class->dev_groups = vduse_dev_groups;
ret = alloc_chrdev_region(&vduse_major, 0, VDUSE_DEV_MAX, "vduse");
if (ret)
--
2.20.1
