From: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>
To: robh@kernel.org, saravanak@kernel.org
Cc: devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] of: unittest: Remove refcount underflow tests
Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2026 13:19:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261101122128.2124348-1-dakr@kernel.org> (raw)
With CONFIG_OF_UNITTEST=y and CONFIG_BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION=y, the
machine no longer boots after commit 5b5224220747 ("refcount: Use
CONFIG_BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION for UAF-related errors").
of_unittest_lifecycle() deliberately calls of_node_put() after the
node's reference count has reached zero. The test expects a warning and
continues to check that a subsequent put does not produce another
warning. With BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION enabled, refcount underflow now
triggers BUG() instead. This panics the kernel during boot:
kernel BUG at lib/refcount.c:37!
Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Tainted: G N 7.3.0+ #14 PREEMPT(full)
RIP: 0010:refcount_warn_saturate+0x89/0x90
Call Trace:
of_unittest_lifecycle+0x158/0x310
of_unittest+0x105/0x130
do_one_initcall+0x127/0x350
do_initcall_level+0x7c/0xe0
do_initcalls+0x59/0xa0
kernel_init_freeable+0x118/0x1a0
kernel_init+0x1f/0x140
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x0000000b
Remove the refcount underflow tests, which exercise the refcount
implementation rather than OF-specific behavior.
Fixes: 5b5224220747 ("refcount: Use CONFIG_BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION for UAF-related errors")
Signed-off-by: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>
---
drivers/of/unittest.c | 43 -------------------------------------------
1 file changed, 43 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/of/unittest.c b/drivers/of/unittest.c
index e255f54f4d76..03fc941c0995 100644
--- a/drivers/of/unittest.c
+++ b/drivers/of/unittest.c
@@ -3678,9 +3678,6 @@ static void __init of_unittest_lifecycle(void)
* - Decrementing refcount to zero via of_node_put() should cause the
* attempt to free the node memory by of_node_release() to fail
* because the node is not a dynamic node.
- *
- * - Decrementing refcount past zero should result in additional
- * errors reported.
*/
np = of_find_node_by_path(refcount_path);
@@ -3714,46 +3711,6 @@ static void __init of_unittest_lifecycle(void)
EXPECT_END(KERN_INFO, "OF: ERROR: of_node_release() detected bad of_node_put() on /testcase-data/refcount-node");
-
- /*
- * expect stack trace for subsequent of_node_put():
- * __refcount_sub_and_test() calls:
- * refcount_warn_saturate(r, REFCOUNT_SUB_UAF)
- *
- * Not capturing entire WARN_ONCE() trace with EXPECT_*(), just
- * the first three lines, and the last line.
- */
- EXPECT_BEGIN(KERN_INFO, "------------[ cut here ]------------");
- EXPECT_BEGIN(KERN_INFO, "WARNING: <<all>>");
- EXPECT_BEGIN(KERN_INFO, "refcount_t: underflow; use-after-free.");
- EXPECT_BEGIN(KERN_INFO, "---[ end trace <<int>> ]---");
-
- /* refcount is now zero, this should fail */
- unittest(1, "/testcase-data/refcount-node is zero");
- of_node_put(np);
-
- EXPECT_END(KERN_INFO, "---[ end trace <<int>> ]---");
- EXPECT_END(KERN_INFO, "refcount_t: underflow; use-after-free.");
- EXPECT_END(KERN_INFO, "WARNING: <<all>>");
- EXPECT_END(KERN_INFO, "------------[ cut here ]------------");
-
- /*
- * Q. do we expect to get yet another warning?
- * A. no, the WARNING is from WARN_ONCE()
- */
- EXPECT_NOT_BEGIN(KERN_INFO, "------------[ cut here ]------------");
- EXPECT_NOT_BEGIN(KERN_INFO, "WARNING: <<all>>");
- EXPECT_NOT_BEGIN(KERN_INFO, "refcount_t: underflow; use-after-free.");
- EXPECT_NOT_BEGIN(KERN_INFO, "---[ end trace <<int>> ]---");
-
- unittest(1, "/testcase-data/refcount-node is zero, second time");
- of_node_put(np);
-
- EXPECT_NOT_END(KERN_INFO, "---[ end trace <<int>> ]---");
- EXPECT_NOT_END(KERN_INFO, "refcount_t: underflow; use-after-free.");
- EXPECT_NOT_END(KERN_INFO, "WARNING: <<all>>");
- EXPECT_NOT_END(KERN_INFO, "------------[ cut here ]------------");
-
/*
* refcount of zero will trigger stack traces from any further
* attempt to of_node_get() node "refcount-node". One example of
base-commit: a287f97d4256b5f5527f5b5a54f8ada55e1482c7
--
2.56.0
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