From: Chenyuan Yang <chenyuan0y@gmail.com>
To: hdegoede@redhat.com, ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com,
rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com, acelan.kao@canonical.com,
u.kleine-koenig@baylibre.com
Cc: platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, zijie98@gmail.com,
Chenyuan Yang <chenyuan0y@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2] platform/x86: dell-uart-backlight: fix NULL pointer dereference in probe
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2025 12:01:18 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250111180118.2274516-1-chenyuan0y@gmail.com> (raw)
The dell_uart_bl_serdev_probe() function calls devm_serdev_device_open()
before setting the client ops via serdev_device_set_client_ops(). This
ordering can trigger a NULL pointer dereference in the serdev controller's
receive_buf handler, as it assumes serdev->ops is valid when
SERPORT_ACTIVE is set.
This is similar to the issue fixed in commit 5e700b384ec1
("platform/chrome: cros_ec_uart: properly fix race condition") where
devm_serdev_device_open() was called before fully initializing the
device.
Fix the race by ensuring client ops are set before enabling the port via
devm_serdev_device_open().
Note, serdev_device_set_baudrate() and
serdev_device_set_flow_control() calls should be
after the devm_serdev_device_open() call.
Fixes: 484bae9e4d6a ("platform/x86: Add new Dell UART backlight driver")
Signed-off-by: Chenyuan Yang <chenyuan0y@gmail.com>
CC: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
---
drivers/platform/x86/dell/dell-uart-backlight.c | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/dell/dell-uart-backlight.c b/drivers/platform/x86/dell/dell-uart-backlight.c
index 6e5dc7e3674f..bcc5c0f3bb4d 100644
--- a/drivers/platform/x86/dell/dell-uart-backlight.c
+++ b/drivers/platform/x86/dell/dell-uart-backlight.c
@@ -283,6 +283,9 @@ static int dell_uart_bl_serdev_probe(struct serdev_device *serdev)
init_waitqueue_head(&dell_bl->wait_queue);
dell_bl->dev = dev;
+ serdev_device_set_drvdata(serdev, dell_bl);
+ serdev_device_set_client_ops(serdev, &dell_uart_bl_serdev_ops);
+
ret = devm_serdev_device_open(dev, serdev);
if (ret)
return dev_err_probe(dev, ret, "opening UART device\n");
@@ -290,8 +293,6 @@ static int dell_uart_bl_serdev_probe(struct serdev_device *serdev)
/* 9600 bps, no flow control, these are the default but set them to be sure */
serdev_device_set_baudrate(serdev, 9600);
serdev_device_set_flow_control(serdev, false);
- serdev_device_set_drvdata(serdev, dell_bl);
- serdev_device_set_client_ops(serdev, &dell_uart_bl_serdev_ops);
get_version[0] = DELL_SOF(GET_CMD_LEN);
get_version[1] = CMD_GET_VERSION;
--
2.34.1
next reply other threads:[~2025-01-11 18:01 UTC|newest]
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