Every error log reported by OPAL is exported to userspace through a
sysfs interface and notified using kobject_uevent(). The userspace
daemon (opal_errd) then reads the error log and acknowledges the error
log is saved safely to disk. Once acknowledged the kernel removes the
respective sysfs file entry causing respective resources to be
released including kobject.

However it's possible the userspace daemon may already be scanning
elog entries when a new sysfs elog entry is created by the kernel.
User daemon may read this new entry and ack it even before kernel can
notify userspace about it through kobject_uevent() call. If that
happens then we have a potential race between
elog_ack_store->kobject_put() and kobject_uevent which can lead to
use-after-free of a kernfs object resulting in a kernel crash. eg:

  BUG: Unable to handle kernel data access on read at 0x6b6b6b6b6b6b6bfb
  Faulting instruction address: 0xc0000000008ff2a0
  Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]
  LE PAGE_SIZE=64K MMU=Hash SMP NR_CPUS=2048 NUMA PowerNV
  CPU: 27 PID: 805 Comm: irq/29-opal-elo Not tainted 5.9.0-rc2-gcc-8.2.0-00214-g6f56a67bcbb5-dirty #363
  ...
  NIP kobject_uevent_env+0xa0/0x910
  LR  elog_event+0x1f4/0x2d0
  Call Trace:
    0x5deadbeef0000122 (unreliable)
    elog_event+0x1f4/0x2d0
    irq_thread_fn+0x4c/0xc0
    irq_thread+0x1c0/0x2b0
    kthread+0x1c4/0x1d0
    ret_from_kernel_thread+0x5c/0x6c

This patch fixes this race by protecting the sysfs file
creation/notification by holding a reference count on kobject until we
safely send kobject_uevent().

The function create_elog_obj() returns the elog object which if used
by caller function will end up in use-after-free problem again.
However, the return value of create_elog_obj() function isn't being
used today and there is no need as well. Hence change it to return
void to make this fix complete.

Fixes: 774fea1a ("powerpc/powernv: Read OPAL error log and export it through sysfs")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.15+
Reported-by: Oliver O'Halloran <oohall@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Oliver O'Halloran <oohall@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Vasant Hegde <hegdevasant@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[mpe: Rework the logic to use a single return, reword comments, add oops]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201006122051.190176-1-mpe@ellerman.id.au