cpufreq: qcom: fix writes in read-only memory region
authorFabien Parent <fabien.parent@linaro.org>
Sat, 15 Oct 2022 13:04:23 +0000 (15:04 +0200)
committerViresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Tue, 18 Oct 2022 10:52:25 +0000 (16:22 +0530)
This commit fixes a kernel oops because of a write in some read-only memory:

[    9.068287] Unable to handle kernel write to read-only memory at virtual address ffff800009240ad8
..snip..
[    9.138790] Internal error: Oops: 9600004f [#1] PREEMPT SMP
..snip..
[    9.269161] Call trace:
[    9.276271]  __memcpy+0x5c/0x230
[    9.278531]  snprintf+0x58/0x80
[    9.282002]  qcom_cpufreq_msm8939_name_version+0xb4/0x190
[    9.284869]  qcom_cpufreq_probe+0xc8/0x39c
..snip..

The following line defines a pointer that point to a char buffer stored
in read-only memory:

char *pvs_name = "speedXX-pvsXX-vXX";

This pointer is meant to hold a template "speedXX-pvsXX-vXX" where the
XX values get overridden by the qcom_cpufreq_krait_name_version function. Since
the template is actually stored in read-only memory, when the function
executes the following call we get an oops:

snprintf(*pvs_name, sizeof("speedXX-pvsXX-vXX"), "speed%d-pvs%d-v%d",
 speed, pvs, pvs_ver);

To fix this issue, we instead store the template name onto the stack by
using the following syntax:

char pvs_name_buffer[] = "speedXX-pvsXX-vXX";

Because the `pvs_name` needs to be able to be assigned to NULL, the
template buffer is stored in the pvs_name_buffer and not under the
pvs_name variable.

Cc: v5.7+ <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v5.7+
Fixes: a8811ec764f9 ("cpufreq: qcom: Add support for krait based socs")
Signed-off-by: Fabien Parent <fabien.parent@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
drivers/cpufreq/qcom-cpufreq-nvmem.c

index 3bd38acde4b957c58fddd6ba02b75a2e7c3e1679..82e0339d7722b2f40b3dbb3c4ad68fcfbac9dfb7 100644 (file)
@@ -265,7 +265,8 @@ static int qcom_cpufreq_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
        struct nvmem_cell *speedbin_nvmem;
        struct device_node *np;
        struct device *cpu_dev;
-       char *pvs_name = "speedXX-pvsXX-vXX";
+       char pvs_name_buffer[] = "speedXX-pvsXX-vXX";
+       char *pvs_name = pvs_name_buffer;
        unsigned cpu;
        const struct of_device_id *match;
        int ret;