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SubjectRe: [PATCH for 4.19-stable] padata: fix null pointer deref of pd->pinst
On Fri, Feb 14, 2020 at 01:28:21PM -0500, Daniel Jordan wrote:
> The 4.19 backport dc34710a7aba ("padata: Remove broken queue flushing")
> removed padata_alloc_pd()'s assignment to pd->pinst, resulting in:
>
> Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference ...
> ...
> pc : padata_reorder+0x144/0x2e0
> ...
> Call trace:
> padata_reorder+0x144/0x2e0
> padata_do_serial+0xc8/0x128
> pcrypt_aead_enc+0x60/0x70 [pcrypt]
> padata_parallel_worker+0xd8/0x138
> process_one_work+0x1bc/0x4b8
> worker_thread+0x164/0x580
> kthread+0x134/0x138
> ret_from_fork+0x10/0x18
>
> This happened because the backport was based on an enhancement that
> moved this assignment but isn't in 4.19:
>
> bfde23ce200e ("padata: unbind parallel jobs from specific CPUs")
>
> Simply restore the assignment to fix the crash.
>
> Fixes: dc34710a7aba ("padata: Remove broken queue flushing")
> Reported-by: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@huawei.com>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
> Cc: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
> Cc: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> ---
> kernel/padata.c | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

Thanks for this, now queued up.

greg k-h

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