Random memory corruption of fe[1]->dvb pointer
Commit Message
While working on a driver I noticed that I had trouble unloading the
module after testing, it crashed while running
dvb_usbv2_adapter_frontend_exit. So I added a print out of some pointers
and got this:
Init:
usb 1-1: dvb_usbv2_adapter_frontend_init: adap=fe[0] ffff88006afa6818
usb 1-1: dvb_usbv2_adapter_frontend_init: adap=fe[0]->dvb ffff880078cba580
usb 1-1: dvb_usbv2_adapter_frontend_init: adap=fe[1] ffff88003698e830
usb 1-1: dvb_usbv2_adapter_frontend_init: adap=fe[1]->dvb ffff880078cba580
ok looking 64bit pointers
Deinit:
usb 1-1: dvb_usbv2_exit:
usb 1-1: dvb_usbv2_remote_exit:
usb 1-1: dvb_usbv2_adapter_exit:
usb 1-1: dvb_usbv2_adapter_exit: fe0[0]= ffff88006afa6818
usb 1-1: dvb_usbv2_adapter_exit: fe0[0]->dvb= ffff880078cba580
usb 1-1: dvb_usbv2_adapter_exit: fe1[0]= ffff88003698e830
usb 1-1: dvb_usbv2_adapter_exit: fe1[0]->dvb= 003a746165733a3d
usb 1-1: dvb_usbv2_adapter_frontend_exit: adap=0
usb 1-1: dvb_usbv2_adapter_frontend_exit: fe[1]= ffff88003698e830
usb 1-1: dvb_usbv2_adapter_frontend_exit: fe[1]->dvb= 003a746165733a3d
Later on in dvb_usbv2_adapter_frontend_exit() fe[1]->dvb is dereferenced
and thus causes a kernel crash.
So for some reason fe[1]->dvb gets corrupted. It doesn't happen all the
time but after max 3 times I get this crash. I have reproduced this on
my main machine running Ubuntu 14.04, 14.10 and a VM running Ubuntu
14.04 all running stock kernel (3.13 and 3.16) and the media_build back
port code.
After some investigation I saw that fe[1]->demodulator_priv also gets
corrupted. Something is overwriting the pointers.
So with that knowledge I wrote the following patch and now I can freely
reload the driver without a crash. This of course doesn't fix the issue
but just corrupts unused dummy memory.
So does anyone have any hunch on what might be causing this issue or how
to track it down ?
Keep in mind that this could be caused by me running the media_build
code or some bug in the driver. Or it could also affect the regular tree
when unplugging devices with more then 1 frontend.
MvH
Benjamin Larsson
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b/drivers/media/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.h
@@ -413,19 +413,30 @@ struct dtv_frontend_properties {
#define DVB_FE_DEVICE_RESUME 3
struct dvb_frontend {
- struct dvb_frontend_ops ops;
- struct dvb_adapter *dvb;
void *demodulator_priv;
+ int dummy1[16000];
void *tuner_priv;
+ int dummy2[16000];
void *frontend_priv;
+ int dummy3[16000];
void *sec_priv;
+ int dummy4[16000];
void *analog_demod_priv;
+ int dummy5[16000];
struct dtv_frontend_properties dtv_property_cache;
+ int dummy6[16000];
#define DVB_FRONTEND_COMPONENT_TUNER 0
#define DVB_FRONTEND_COMPONENT_DEMOD 1
int (*callback)(void *adapter_priv, int component, int cmd, int
arg);
+ int dummy7[16000];
int id;
+ int dummy8[16000];
unsigned int exit;
+ int dummy9[16000];
+ struct dvb_frontend_ops ops;
+ int dummy10[16000];
+ struct dvb_adapter *dvb;
+ int dummy11[16000];
};