[Intel-gfx] [PATCH v1] drm/i915: fix null pointer dereference

[Nathan Chancellor]

On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 10:37:14AM +0300, Jani Nikula wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Aug 2022, Łukasz Bartosik <lb at semihalf.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> Apologies in advance if you see this twice. I did not see the original
> >> make it to either lore.kernel.org or the freedesktop.org archives so I
> >> figured it might have been sent into the void.
> >>
> >> On Tue, Feb 01, 2022 at 04:33:54PM +0100, Lukasz Bartosik wrote:
> >> > From: Łukasz Bartosik <lb at semihalf.com>
> >> >
> >> > Asus chromebook CX550 crashes during boot on v5.17-rc1 kernel.
> >> > The root cause is null pointer defeference of bi_next
> >> > in tgl_get_bw_info() in drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_bw.c.
> >> >
> >> > BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 000000000000002e
> >> > PGD 0 P4D 0
> >> > Oops: 0002 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
> >> > CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Tainted: G     U            5.17.0-rc1
> >> > Hardware name: Google Delbin/Delbin, BIOS Google_Delbin.13672.156.3 05/14/2021
> >> > RIP: 0010:tgl_get_bw_info+0x2de/0x510
> >> > ...
> >> > [    2.554467] Call Trace:
> >> > [    2.554467]  <TASK>
> >> > [    2.554467]  intel_bw_init_hw+0x14a/0x434
> >> > [    2.554467]  ? _printk+0x59/0x73
> >> > [    2.554467]  ? _dev_err+0x77/0x91
> >> > [    2.554467]  i915_driver_hw_probe+0x329/0x33e
> >> > [    2.554467]  i915_driver_probe+0x4c8/0x638
> >> > [    2.554467]  i915_pci_probe+0xf8/0x14e
> >> > [    2.554467]  ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x12/0x2c
> >> > [    2.554467]  pci_device_probe+0xaa/0x142
> >> > [    2.554467]  really_probe+0x13f/0x2f4
> >> > [    2.554467]  __driver_probe_device+0x9e/0xd3
> >> > [    2.554467]  driver_probe_device+0x24/0x7c
> >> > [    2.554467]  __driver_attach+0xba/0xcf
> >> > [    2.554467]  ? driver_attach+0x1f/0x1f
> >> > [    2.554467]  bus_for_each_dev+0x8c/0xc0
> >> > [    2.554467]  bus_add_driver+0x11b/0x1f7
> >> > [    2.554467]  driver_register+0x60/0xea
> >> > [    2.554467]  ? mipi_dsi_bus_init+0x16/0x16
> >> > [    2.554467]  i915_init+0x2c/0xb9
> >> > [    2.554467]  ? mipi_dsi_bus_init+0x16/0x16
> >> > [    2.554467]  do_one_initcall+0x12e/0x2b3
> >> > [    2.554467]  do_initcall_level+0xd6/0xf3
> >> > [    2.554467]  do_initcalls+0x4e/0x79
> >> > [    2.554467]  kernel_init_freeable+0xed/0x14d
> >> > [    2.554467]  ? rest_init+0xc1/0xc1
> >> > [    2.554467]  kernel_init+0x1a/0x120
> >> > [    2.554467]  ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30
> >> > [    2.554467]  </TASK>
> >> > ...
> >> > Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception
> >> >
> >> > Fixes: c64a9a7c05be ("drm/i915: Update memory bandwidth formulae")
> >> > Signed-off-by: Łukasz Bartosik <lb at semihalf.com>
> >> > ---
> >> >  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_bw.c | 16 +++++++++-------
> >> >  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> >> >
> >> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_bw.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_bw.c
> >> > index 2da4aacc956b..bd0ed68b7faa 100644
> >> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_bw.c
> >> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_bw.c
> >> > @@ -404,15 +404,17 @@ static int tgl_get_bw_info(struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv, const struct intel
> >> >               int clpchgroup;
> >> >               int j;
> >> >
> >> > -             if (i < num_groups - 1)
> >> > -                     bi_next = &dev_priv->max_bw[i + 1];
> >> > -
> >> >               clpchgroup = (sa->deburst * qi.deinterleave / num_channels) << i;
> >> >
> >> > -             if (i < num_groups - 1 && clpchgroup < clperchgroup)
> >> > -                     bi_next->num_planes = (ipqdepth - clpchgroup) / clpchgroup + 1;
> >> > -             else
> >> > -                     bi_next->num_planes = 0;
> >> > +             if (i < num_groups - 1) {
> >> > +                     bi_next = &dev_priv->max_bw[i + 1];
> >> > +
> >> > +                     if (clpchgroup < clperchgroup)
> >> > +                             bi_next->num_planes = (ipqdepth - clpchgroup) /
> >> > +                                                    clpchgroup + 1;
> >> > +                     else
> >> > +                             bi_next->num_planes = 0;
> >> > +             }
> >> >
> >> >               bi->num_qgv_points = qi.num_points;
> >> >               bi->num_psf_gv_points = qi.num_psf_points;
> >> > --
> >> > 2.35.0.rc2.247.g8bbb082509-goog
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
> >> Was this patch ever applied or was the issue fixed in a different way?
> >> If CONFIG_INIT_STACK_ALL_ZERO is enabled (it is on by default when the
> >> compiler supports it), bi_next will be deterministically initialized to
> >> NULL, which means 'bi_next->num_planes = 0' will crash when the first if
> >> statement is not taken (i.e. 'i > num_groups - 1'). This was reported to
> >> us at [1] so it impacts real users (and I have been applying this change
> >> locally for six months). I see some discussion in this thread, was it
> >> ever resolved?
> >>
> >> [1]: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1626
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Nathan
> >
> > The patch was not accepted by upstream. I gave up after sending two reminders
> > that the issue is still present which resulted in no upstream reaction.
> > I have been also applying that patch locally for a few months.
> > Thanks for bringing it up to upstream attention again.
> 
> Apologies for us dropping the ball here. There were objections to the
> code from Ville [1] but nobody stepped up to clean it up. I think this
> was really more about the commit being fixed c64a9a7c05be ("drm/i915:
> Update memory bandwidth formulae") than about the patch at hand.
> 
> In any case, I've gone ahead and pushed this patch to drm-intel-next
> now. With the Fixes tag it should eventually find its way to stable
> v5.17+. Thank you for the patch, review - and nagging. ;)
> 
> What still remains is cleaning up the code. But that should never have
> stalled the fix for months. Sorry again.

No worries, better late than never :) Thanks for applying the change!

Cheers,
Nathan