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If both ftl.ko and gluebi.ko are loaded, the notifier of ftl
triggers NULL pointer dereference when trying to access
‘gluebi->desc’ in gluebi_read().
ubi_gluebi_init
ubi_register_volume_notifier
ubi_enumerate_volumes
ubi_notify_all
gluebi_notify nb->notifier_call()
gluebi_create
mtd_device_register
mtd_device_parse_register
add_mtd_device
blktrans_notify_add not->add()
ftl_add_mtd tr->add_mtd()
scan_header
mtd_read
mtd_read_oob
mtd_read_oob_std
gluebi_read mtd->read()
gluebi->desc - NULL
Detailed reproduction information available at the Link [1],
In the normal case, obtain gluebi->desc in the gluebi_get_device(),
and access gluebi->desc in the gluebi_read(). However,
gluebi_get_device() is not executed in advance in the
ftl_add_mtd() process, which leads to NULL pointer dereference.
The solution for the gluebi module is to run jffs2 on the UBI
volume without considering working with ftl or mtdblock [2].
Therefore, this problem can be avoided by preventing gluebi from
creating the mtdblock device after creating mtd partition of the
type MTD_UBIVOLUME.
Fixes: 2ba3d76a1e29 ("UBI: make gluebi a separate module")
Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217992 [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/441107100.23734.1697904580252.JavaMail.zimbra@nod.at/ [2]
Signed-off-by: ZhaoLong Wang <wangzhaolong1@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Zhihao Cheng <chengzhihao1@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mtd/20231220024619.2138625-1-wangzhaolong1@huawei.com
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