Re: [PATCH v3] PCI: Fix crash during pci_dev hot-unplug on pseries KVM guest

Bjorn Helgaas [off-list ref] writes:

On Sat, Aug 03, 2024 at 12:03:25AM +0530, Amit Machhiwal wrote:

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With CONFIG_PCI_DYNAMIC_OF_NODES [1], a hot-plug and hot-unplug sequence
of a PCI device attached to a PCI-bridge causes following kernel Oops on
a pseries KVM guest:

What is unique about pseries here?  There's nothing specific to
pseries in the patch, so I would expect this to be a generic problem
on any arch.

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 RTAS: event: 2, Type: Hotplug Event (229), Severity: 1
 Kernel attempted to read user page (10ec00000048) - exploit attempt? (uid: 0)
 BUG: Unable to handle kernel data access on read at 0x10ec00000048

Weird address.  I would expect NULL or something.  Where did this
non-NULL pointer come from?

It originally comes from np->data, which is supposed to be an
of_changeset.

The powerpc code also uses np->data for the struct pci_dn pointer, see
pci_add_device_node_info().

I wonder if that's why it's non-NULL?

Amit, do we have exact steps to reproduce this? I poked around a bit but
couldn't get it to trigger.

cheers