Re: [PATCH] driver core: platform: Fix the usage of platform device name(pdev->name)

[Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>]

Hi,

On Mon, Apr 22, 2019 at 05:16:29PM -0700, Venkata Narendra Kumar Gutta wrote:
> Platform core is using pdev->name as the platform device name to do
> the binding of the devices with the drivers. But, when the platform
> driver overrides the platform device name with dev_set_name(),
> the pdev->name is pointing to a location which is freed and becomes
> an invalid parameter to do the binding match.
> 
> use-after-free instance:
> 
> [   33.325013] BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in strcmp+0x8c/0xb0
> [   33.330646] Read of size 1 at addr ffffffc10beae600 by task modprobe
> [   33.339068] CPU: 5 PID: 518 Comm: modprobe Tainted:
> 			G S      W  O      4.19.30+ #3
> [   33.346835] Hardware name: MTP (DT)
> [   33.350419] Call trace:
> [   33.352941]  dump_backtrace+0x0/0x3b8
> [   33.356713]  show_stack+0x24/0x30
> [   33.360119]  dump_stack+0x160/0x1d8
> [   33.363709]  print_address_description+0x84/0x2e0
> [   33.368549]  kasan_report+0x26c/0x2d0
> [   33.372322]  __asan_report_load1_noabort+0x2c/0x38
> [   33.377248]  strcmp+0x8c/0xb0
> [   33.380306]  platform_match+0x70/0x1f8
> [   33.384168]  __driver_attach+0x78/0x3a0
> [   33.388111]  bus_for_each_dev+0x13c/0x1b8
> [   33.392237]  driver_attach+0x4c/0x58
> [   33.395910]  bus_add_driver+0x350/0x560
> [   33.399854]  driver_register+0x23c/0x328
> [   33.403886]  __platform_driver_register+0xd0/0xe0
> 
> So, use dev_name(&pdev->dev), which fetches the platform device name from
> the kobject(dev->kobj->name) of the device instead of the pdev->name.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Venkata Narendra Kumar Gutta <vnkgutta@codeaurora.org>

This patch results in a large number of crashes (statistics: total: 349
pass: 244 fail: 105) in my boot tests (https://kerneltests.org/builders).
Affected architectures are (at least) arm, m68k, mips, ppc, and sh.
The reason for the crash is different for each architecture. Sometimes
the boot will stall, sometimes there is a crash, and sometimes the system
will fail to restart.

Here is an example for a log message, seen on arm (and m68k, but with ttyS
instead of ttySA).

WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1349 tty_init_dev+0x14c/0x1a4
tty_init_dev: ttySA driver does not set tty->port. This will crash the kernel later. Fix the driver!

This is then indeed followed by a crash in tty_init_dev().

Bisect log for m68k attached below. Reverting this patch fixes the
problem at least for arm, m68k, and mips images.

Guenter

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# bad: [3d17a1de96a233cf89bfbb5a77ebb1a05c420681] Add linux-next specific files for 20190429
# good: [085b7755808aa11f78ab9377257e1dad2e6fa4bb] Linux 5.1-rc6
git bisect start 'HEAD' 'v5.1-rc6'
# good: [48ea994d711ca2e66038741e549f3ebd3072e215] Merge remote-tracking branch 'crypto/master'
git bisect good 48ea994d711ca2e66038741e549f3ebd3072e215
# good: [2d49c5dbbd93045625927b6acf54bf43f86f97fd] Merge remote-tracking branch 'spi/for-next'
git bisect good 2d49c5dbbd93045625927b6acf54bf43f86f97fd
# bad: [7d38461c1c19569f7952c66913b38a78b2c51828] Merge remote-tracking branch 'staging/staging-next'
git bisect bad 7d38461c1c19569f7952c66913b38a78b2c51828
# bad: [b827800209cf30ed4e2d3a503044014b56f2b06f] Merge remote-tracking branch 'tty/tty-next'
git bisect bad b827800209cf30ed4e2d3a503044014b56f2b06f
# good: [e643fe145f03134a9de2b8996e11e03b8a0cd90a] Merge remote-tracking branch 'tip/auto-latest'
git bisect good e643fe145f03134a9de2b8996e11e03b8a0cd90a
# good: [cac573af020fbe8b16c1c769ed692126b8eceb69] Merge remote-tracking branch 'ipmi/for-next'
git bisect good cac573af020fbe8b16c1c769ed692126b8eceb69
# good: [ad74b8649beaf1a22cf8641324e3321fa0269d16] usb: typec: ucsi: Preliminary support for alternate modes
git bisect good ad74b8649beaf1a22cf8641324e3321fa0269d16
# bad: [9dc730c74af21b8403a9befba0f5f2e3bd9d6be4] Merge remote-tracking branch 'usb/usb-next'
git bisect bad 9dc730c74af21b8403a9befba0f5f2e3bd9d6be4
# good: [ab3a9f2ccc080d27873f76869c9a780be45e581e] acpi/hmat: fix an uninitialized memory_target
git bisect good ab3a9f2ccc080d27873f76869c9a780be45e581e
# good: [70283454c918f1d65de0ec50c45ef592d781bcae] livepatch: Replace klp_ktype_patch's default_attrs with groups
git bisect good 70283454c918f1d65de0ec50c45ef592d781bcae
# good: [33e39350ebd20fe6a77a51b8c21c3aa6b4a208cf] usb: xhci: add Immediate Data Transfer support
git bisect good 33e39350ebd20fe6a77a51b8c21c3aa6b4a208cf
# good: [5afa0a5ed3da85f64f27613a38daa1c4f69dd8ff] usb: xhci: add endpoint context tracing when an endpoint is added
git bisect good 5afa0a5ed3da85f64f27613a38daa1c4f69dd8ff
# bad: [a85b96e9e11d97a1fb4a683030d6aa98e1a872e8] Merge remote-tracking branch 'driver-core/driver-core-next'
git bisect bad a85b96e9e11d97a1fb4a683030d6aa98e1a872e8
# bad: [edb16da34b084c66763f29bee42b4e6bb33c3d66] driver core: platform: Fix the usage of platform device name(pdev->name)
git bisect bad edb16da34b084c66763f29bee42b4e6bb33c3d66
# first bad commit: [edb16da34b084c66763f29bee42b4e6bb33c3d66] driver core: platform: Fix the usage of platform device name(pdev->name)