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[3.8.y.z,extended,stable] Patch "rds: prevent dereference of a NULL device" has been added to staging queue

Message ID 1389822584-4028-1-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com
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Kamal Mostafa Jan. 15, 2014, 9:49 p.m. UTC
This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    rds: prevent dereference of a NULL device

to the linux-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.8.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.8.13.16.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.8.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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From f091e9190565160923e311bd2e1720271581a011 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 23:49:42 -0500
Subject: rds: prevent dereference of a NULL device

[ Upstream commit c2349758acf1874e4c2b93fe41d072336f1a31d0 ]

Binding might result in a NULL device, which is dereferenced
causing this BUG:

[ 1317.260548] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 000000000000097
4
[ 1317.261847] IP: [<ffffffff84225f52>] rds_ib_laddr_check+0x82/0x110
[ 1317.263315] PGD 418bcb067 PUD 3ceb21067 PMD 0
[ 1317.263502] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
[ 1317.264179] Dumping ftrace buffer:
[ 1317.264774]    (ftrace buffer empty)
[ 1317.265220] Modules linked in:
[ 1317.265824] CPU: 4 PID: 836 Comm: trinity-child46 Tainted: G        W    3.13.0-rc4-
next-20131218-sasha-00013-g2cebb9b-dirty #4159
[ 1317.267415] task: ffff8803ddf33000 ti: ffff8803cd31a000 task.ti: ffff8803cd31a000
[ 1317.268399] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff84225f52>]  [<ffffffff84225f52>] rds_ib_laddr_check+
0x82/0x110
[ 1317.269670] RSP: 0000:ffff8803cd31bdf8  EFLAGS: 00010246
[ 1317.270230] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff88020b0dd388 RCX: 0000000000000000
[ 1317.270230] RDX: ffffffff8439822e RSI: 00000000000c000a RDI: 0000000000000286
[ 1317.270230] RBP: ffff8803cd31be38 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
[ 1317.270230] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: 0000000000000000
[ 1317.270230] R13: 0000000054086700 R14: 0000000000a25de0 R15: 0000000000000031
[ 1317.270230] FS:  00007ff40251d700(0000) GS:ffff88022e200000(0000) knlGS:000000000000
0000
[ 1317.270230] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
[ 1317.270230] CR2: 0000000000000974 CR3: 00000003cd478000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
[ 1317.270230] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
[ 1317.270230] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000090602
[ 1317.270230] Stack:
[ 1317.270230]  0000000054086700 5408670000a25de0 5408670000000002 0000000000000000
[ 1317.270230]  ffffffff84223542 00000000ea54c767 0000000000000000 ffffffff86d26160
[ 1317.270230]  ffff8803cd31be68 ffffffff84223556 ffff8803cd31beb8 ffff8800c6765280
[ 1317.270230] Call Trace:
[ 1317.270230]  [<ffffffff84223542>] ? rds_trans_get_preferred+0x42/0xa0
[ 1317.270230]  [<ffffffff84223556>] rds_trans_get_preferred+0x56/0xa0
[ 1317.270230]  [<ffffffff8421c9c3>] rds_bind+0x73/0xf0
[ 1317.270230]  [<ffffffff83e4ce62>] SYSC_bind+0x92/0xf0
[ 1317.270230]  [<ffffffff812493f8>] ? context_tracking_user_exit+0xb8/0x1d0
[ 1317.270230]  [<ffffffff8119313d>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0x10
[ 1317.270230]  [<ffffffff8107a852>] ? syscall_trace_enter+0x32/0x290
[ 1317.270230]  [<ffffffff83e4cece>] SyS_bind+0xe/0x10
[ 1317.270230]  [<ffffffff843a6ad0>] tracesys+0xdd/0xe2
[ 1317.270230] Code: 00 8b 45 cc 48 8d 75 d0 48 c7 45 d8 00 00 00 00 66 c7 45 d0 02 00
89 45 d4 48 89 df e8 78 49 76 ff 41 89 c4 85 c0 75 0c 48 8b 03 <80> b8 74 09 00 00 01 7
4 06 41 bc 9d ff ff ff f6 05 2a b6 c2 02
[ 1317.270230] RIP  [<ffffffff84225f52>] rds_ib_laddr_check+0x82/0x110
[ 1317.270230]  RSP <ffff8803cd31bdf8>
[ 1317.270230] CR2: 0000000000000974

Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com>
---
 net/rds/ib.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

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diff --git a/net/rds/ib.c b/net/rds/ib.c
index b4c8b00..ba2dffe 100644
--- a/net/rds/ib.c
+++ b/net/rds/ib.c
@@ -338,7 +338,8 @@  static int rds_ib_laddr_check(__be32 addr)
 	ret = rdma_bind_addr(cm_id, (struct sockaddr *)&sin);
 	/* due to this, we will claim to support iWARP devices unless we
 	   check node_type. */
-	if (ret || cm_id->device->node_type != RDMA_NODE_IB_CA)
+	if (ret || !cm_id->device ||
+	    cm_id->device->node_type != RDMA_NODE_IB_CA)
 		ret = -EADDRNOTAVAIL;

 	rdsdebug("addr %pI4 ret %d node type %d\n",