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SubjectRe: [PATCH] drivers/i2c-aspeed: avoid invalid memory reference after timeout
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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@linux.alibaba.com>
>
> -------
>
> Cc: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@google.com>
> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
> Cc: Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>
> Cc: Andrew Jeffery <andrew@aj.id.au>
> Cc: Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@pengutronix.de>
> Cc: linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: openbmc@lists.ozlabs.org
> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
> Cc: linux-aspeed@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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