Commit d2572f5b authored by Dan Williams's avatar Dan Williams Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

libnvdimm, region: fix flush hint detection crash

commit bc042fdf upstream.

In the case where a dimm does not have any associated flush hints the
ndrd->flush_wpq array may be uninitialized leading to crashes with the
following signature:

 BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000010
 IP: region_visible+0x10f/0x160 [libnvdimm]

 Call Trace:
  internal_create_group+0xbe/0x2f0
  sysfs_create_groups+0x40/0x80
  device_add+0x2d8/0x650
  nd_async_device_register+0x12/0x40 [libnvdimm]
  async_run_entry_fn+0x39/0x170
  process_one_work+0x212/0x6c0
  ? process_one_work+0x197/0x6c0
  worker_thread+0x4e/0x4a0
  kthread+0x10c/0x140
  ? process_one_work+0x6c0/0x6c0
  ? kthread_create_on_node+0x60/0x60
  ret_from_fork+0x31/0x40
Reviewed-by: default avatarJeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Fixes: f284a4f2 ("libnvdimm: introduce nvdimm_flush() and nvdimm_has_flush()")
Signed-off-by: default avatarDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent d517be51
......@@ -968,17 +968,20 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(nvdimm_flush);
*/
int nvdimm_has_flush(struct nd_region *nd_region)
{
struct nd_region_data *ndrd = dev_get_drvdata(&nd_region->dev);
int i;
/* no nvdimm == flushing capability unknown */
if (nd_region->ndr_mappings == 0)
return -ENXIO;
for (i = 0; i < nd_region->ndr_mappings; i++)
/* flush hints present, flushing required */
if (ndrd_get_flush_wpq(ndrd, i, 0))
for (i = 0; i < nd_region->ndr_mappings; i++) {
struct nd_mapping *nd_mapping = &nd_region->mapping[i];
struct nvdimm *nvdimm = nd_mapping->nvdimm;
/* flush hints present / available */
if (nvdimm->num_flush)
return 1;
}
/*
* The platform defines dimm devices without hints, assume
......
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