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    s390/qeth: fix NULL deref in qeth_clear_working_pool_list() · 248f064a
    Julian Wiedmann authored
    When qeth_set_online() calls qeth_clear_working_pool_list() to roll
    back after an error exit from qeth_hardsetup_card(), we are at risk of
    accessing card->qdio.in_q before it was allocated by
    qeth_alloc_qdio_queues() via qeth_mpc_initialize().
    
    qeth_clear_working_pool_list() then dereferences NULL, and by writing to
    queue->bufs[i].pool_entry scribbles all over the CPU's lowcore.
    Resulting in a crash when those lowcore areas are used next (eg. on
    the next machine-check interrupt).
    
    Such a scenario would typically happen when the device is first set
    online and its queues aren't allocated yet. An early IO error or certain
    misconfigs (eg. mismatched transport mode, bad portno) then cause us to
    error out from qeth_hardsetup_card() with card->qdio.in_q still being
    NULL.
    
    Fix it by checking the pointer for NULL before accessing it.
    
    Note that we also have (rare) paths inside qeth_mpc_initialize() where
    a configuration change can cause us to free the existing queues,
    expecting that subsequent code will allocate them again. If we then
    error out before that re-allocation happens, the same bug occurs.
    
    Fixes: eff73e16 ("s390/qeth: tolerate pre-filled RX buffer")
    Reported-by: default avatarStefan Raspl <raspl@linux.ibm.com>
    Root-caused-by: default avatarHeiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJulian Wiedmann <jwi@linux.ibm.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarAlexandra Winter <wintera@linux.ibm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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qeth_core_main.c 188 KB