Guenter Roeck 58275db3c7 lib/list_debug.c: Detect uninitialized lists
[ Upstream commit 0cc011c576 ]

In some circumstances, attempts are made to add entries to or to remove
entries from an uninitialized list.  A prime example is
amdgpu_bo_vm_destroy(): It is indirectly called from
ttm_bo_init_reserved() if that function fails, and tries to remove an
entry from a list.  However, that list is only initialized in
amdgpu_bo_create_vm() after the call to ttm_bo_init_reserved() returned
success.  This results in crashes such as

 BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000
 #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
 #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
 PGD 0 P4D 0
 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
 CPU: 1 PID: 1479 Comm: chrome Not tainted 5.10.110-15768-g29a72e65dae5
 Hardware name: Google Grunt/Grunt, BIOS Google_Grunt.11031.149.0 07/15/2020
 RIP: 0010:__list_del_entry_valid+0x26/0x7d
 ...
 Call Trace:
  amdgpu_bo_vm_destroy+0x48/0x8b
  ttm_bo_init_reserved+0x1d7/0x1e0
  amdgpu_bo_create+0x212/0x476
  ? amdgpu_bo_user_destroy+0x23/0x23
  ? kmem_cache_alloc+0x60/0x271
  amdgpu_bo_create_vm+0x40/0x7d
  amdgpu_vm_pt_create+0xe8/0x24b
 ...

Check if the list's prev and next pointers are NULL to catch such problems.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220531222951.92073-1-linux@roeck-us.net
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2022-08-25 11:38:18 +02:00

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