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In some circumstances, attempts are made to add entries to or to remove entries from an uninitialized list. A prime example is amdgpu_bo_vm_destroy(): It is indirectly called from ttm_bo_init_reserved() if that function fails, and tries to remove an entry from a list. However, that list is only initialized in amdgpu_bo_create_vm() after the call to ttm_bo_init_reserved() returned success. This results in crashes such as BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000 #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page PGD 0 P4D 0 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI CPU: 1 PID: 1479 Comm: chrome Not tainted 5.10.110-15768-g29a72e65dae5 Hardware name: Google Grunt/Grunt, BIOS Google_Grunt.11031.149.0 07/15/2020 RIP: 0010:__list_del_entry_valid+0x26/0x7d ... Call Trace: amdgpu_bo_vm_destroy+0x48/0x8b ttm_bo_init_reserved+0x1d7/0x1e0 amdgpu_bo_create+0x212/0x476 ? amdgpu_bo_user_destroy+0x23/0x23 ? kmem_cache_alloc+0x60/0x271 amdgpu_bo_create_vm+0x40/0x7d amdgpu_vm_pt_create+0xe8/0x24b ... Check if the list's prev and next pointers are NULL to catch such problems. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220531222951.92073-1-linux@roeck-us.net Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.