[PATCH] drivers/i2c-aspeed: avoid invalid memory reference after timeout
Heyi Guo
guoheyi at linux.alibaba.com
Tue Jan 11 18:52:25 AEDT 2022
Hi all,
Any comments?
Thanks,
Heyi
在 2022/1/9 下午9:26, Heyi Guo 写道:
> The memory will be freed by the caller if transfer timeout occurs,
> then it would trigger kernel panic if the peer device responds with
> something after timeout and triggers the interrupt handler of aspeed
> i2c driver.
>
> Set the msgs pointer to NULL to avoid invalid memory reference after
> timeout to fix this potential kernel panic.
>
> Signed-off-by: Heyi Guo <guoheyi at linux.alibaba.com>
>
> -------
>
> Cc: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins at google.com>
> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>
> Cc: Joel Stanley <joel at jms.id.au>
> Cc: Andrew Jeffery <andrew at aj.id.au>
> Cc: Philipp Zabel <p.zabel at pengutronix.de>
> Cc: linux-i2c at vger.kernel.org
> Cc: openbmc at lists.ozlabs.org
> Cc: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
> Cc: linux-aspeed at lists.ozlabs.org
> ---
> drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-aspeed.c | 5 +++++
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-aspeed.c b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-aspeed.c
> index 67e8b97c0c950..3ab0396168680 100644
> --- a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-aspeed.c
> +++ b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-aspeed.c
> @@ -708,6 +708,11 @@ static int aspeed_i2c_master_xfer(struct i2c_adapter *adap,
> spin_lock_irqsave(&bus->lock, flags);
> if (bus->master_state == ASPEED_I2C_MASTER_PENDING)
> bus->master_state = ASPEED_I2C_MASTER_INACTIVE;
> + /*
> + * All the buffers may be freed after returning to caller, so
> + * set msgs to NULL to avoid memory reference after freeing.
> + */
> + bus->msgs = NULL;
> spin_unlock_irqrestore(&bus->lock, flags);
>
> return -ETIMEDOUT;
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