linux/drivers/i2c
Vladimir Zapolskiy 147b36d5b7 i2c: core: fix NULL pointer dereference under race condition
Race condition between registering an I2C device driver and
deregistering an I2C adapter device which is assumed to manage that
I2C device may lead to a NULL pointer dereference due to the
uninitialized list head of driver clients.

The root cause of the issue is that the I2C bus may know about the
registered device driver and thus it is matched by bus_for_each_drv(),
but the list of clients is not initialized and commonly it is NULL,
because I2C device drivers define struct i2c_driver as static and
clients field is expected to be initialized by I2C core:

  i2c_register_driver()             i2c_del_adapter()
    driver_register()                 ...
      bus_add_driver()                ...
        ...                           bus_for_each_drv(..., __process_removed_adapter)
      ...                               i2c_do_del_adapter()
    ...                                   list_for_each_entry_safe(..., &driver->clients, ...)
    INIT_LIST_HEAD(&driver->clients);

To solve the problem it is sufficient to do clients list head
initialization before calling driver_register().

The problem was found while using an I2C device driver with a sluggish
registration routine on a bus provided by a physically detachable I2C
master controller, but practically the oops may be reproduced under
the race between arbitraty I2C device driver registration and managing
I2C bus device removal e.g. by unbinding the latter over sysfs:

% echo 21a4000.i2c > /sys/bus/platform/drivers/imx-i2c/unbind
  Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000
  Internal error: Oops: 17 [#1] SMP ARM
  CPU: 2 PID: 533 Comm: sh Not tainted 4.9.0-rc3+ #61
  Hardware name: Freescale i.MX6 Quad/DualLite (Device Tree)
  task: e5ada400 task.stack: e4936000
  PC is at i2c_do_del_adapter+0x20/0xcc
  LR is at __process_removed_adapter+0x14/0x1c
  Flags: NzCv  IRQs on  FIQs on  Mode SVC_32  ISA ARM  Segment none
  Control: 10c5387d  Table: 35bd004a  DAC: 00000051
  Process sh (pid: 533, stack limit = 0xe4936210)
  Stack: (0xe4937d28 to 0xe4938000)
  Backtrace:
  [<c0667be0>] (i2c_do_del_adapter) from [<c0667cc0>] (__process_removed_adapter+0x14/0x1c)
  [<c0667cac>] (__process_removed_adapter) from [<c0516998>] (bus_for_each_drv+0x6c/0xa0)
  [<c051692c>] (bus_for_each_drv) from [<c06685ec>] (i2c_del_adapter+0xbc/0x284)
  [<c0668530>] (i2c_del_adapter) from [<bf0110ec>] (i2c_imx_remove+0x44/0x164 [i2c_imx])
  [<bf0110a8>] (i2c_imx_remove [i2c_imx]) from [<c051a838>] (platform_drv_remove+0x2c/0x44)
  [<c051a80c>] (platform_drv_remove) from [<c05183d8>] (__device_release_driver+0x90/0x12c)
  [<c0518348>] (__device_release_driver) from [<c051849c>] (device_release_driver+0x28/0x34)
  [<c0518474>] (device_release_driver) from [<c0517150>] (unbind_store+0x80/0x104)
  [<c05170d0>] (unbind_store) from [<c0516520>] (drv_attr_store+0x28/0x34)
  [<c05164f8>] (drv_attr_store) from [<c0298acc>] (sysfs_kf_write+0x50/0x54)
  [<c0298a7c>] (sysfs_kf_write) from [<c029801c>] (kernfs_fop_write+0x100/0x214)
  [<c0297f1c>] (kernfs_fop_write) from [<c0220130>] (__vfs_write+0x34/0x120)
  [<c02200fc>] (__vfs_write) from [<c0221088>] (vfs_write+0xa8/0x170)
  [<c0220fe0>] (vfs_write) from [<c0221e74>] (SyS_write+0x4c/0xa8)
  [<c0221e28>] (SyS_write) from [<c0108a20>] (ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x1c)

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Zapolskiy <vladimir_zapolskiy@mentor.com>
Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
2016-11-04 20:36:58 +01:00
..
algos i2c: algo-bit: declare i2c_bit_quirk_no_clk_stretch as static 2016-05-11 17:16:30 +02:00
busses i2c: imx: defer probe if bus recovery GPIOs are not ready 2016-10-25 12:15:00 +02:00
muxes Merge branch 'i2c/for-4.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wsa/linux 2016-10-07 14:12:21 -07:00
Kconfig i2c: Update the description of I2C_SMBUS 2016-07-18 20:11:08 +02:00
Makefile i2c: slave-eeprom: add eeprom simulator driver 2014-12-11 22:25:54 +01:00
i2c-boardinfo.c i2c: remove __init from i2c_register_board_info() 2016-06-19 14:13:50 +02:00
i2c-core.c i2c: core: fix NULL pointer dereference under race condition 2016-11-04 20:36:58 +01:00
i2c-core.h i2c: remove FSF address 2014-11-07 18:35:33 +01:00
i2c-dev.c i2c-dev: don't get i2c adapter via i2c_dev 2016-07-08 10:29:31 +09:00
i2c-mux.c i2c: move locking operations to their own struct 2016-08-30 22:56:14 +02:00
i2c-slave-eeprom.c i2c: Drop owner assignment from i2c_driver 2015-08-10 08:37:35 +02:00
i2c-smbus.c i2c: i2c-smbus: fix i2c_handle_smbus_host_notify documentation 2016-07-18 20:09:54 +02:00
i2c-stub.c i2c: i2c-stub: sort includes 2016-02-20 23:33:39 +01:00