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FAILED: patch "[PATCH] x86/mce/amd: Publish the bank pointer only after setup has" failed to apply to 4.4-stable tree

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The patch below does not apply to the 4.4-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to <[email protected]>.

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From 6e5cf31fbe651bed7ba1df768f2e123531132417 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2020 13:28:41 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] x86/mce/amd: Publish the bank pointer only after setup has
succeeded

threshold_create_bank() creates a bank descriptor per MCA error thresholding counter which can be controlled over sysfs. It publishes the pointer to that bank in a per-CPU variable and then goes on to create additional thresholding blocks if the bank has such.

However, that creation of additional blocks in allocate_threshold_blocks() can fail, leading to a use-after-free through the per-CPU pointer.

Therefore, publish that pointer only after all blocks have been setup successfully.

Fixes 019f34fccfd5 ("x86, MCE, AMD: Move shared bank to node descriptor")
Reported-by Saar Amar <[email protected]>
Reported-by Dan Carpenter <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Cc <[email protected]>
Link http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] open here
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/amd.c +16 -17
index b3a50d962851..e7313e5c497c 100644
@@ -1198,8 +1198,9 @@ static const char *get_name(unsigned int bank, struct threshold_block *b)
 	return buf_mcatype;
 }
 
-static int allocate_threshold_blocks(unsigned int cpu, unsigned int bank,
-				     unsigned int block, u32 address)
+static int allocate_threshold_blocks(unsigned int cpu, struct threshold_bank *tb,
+				     unsigned int bank, unsigned int block,
+				     u32 address)
 {
 	struct threshold_block *b = NULL;
 	u32 low, high;

@@ -1243,16 +1244,12 @@ static int allocate_threshold_blocks(unsigned int cpu, unsigned int bank,
 
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&b->miscj);
 
-	if (per_cpu(threshold_banks, cpu)[bank]->blocks) {
-		list_add(&b->miscj,
-			 &per_cpu(threshold_banks, cpu)[bank]->blocks->miscj);
-	} else {
-		per_cpu(threshold_banks, cpu)[bank]->blocks = b;
-	}
+	if (tb->blocks)
+		list_add(&b->miscj, &tb->blocks->miscj);
+	else
+		tb->blocks = b;
 
-	err = kobject_init_and_add(&b->kobj, &threshold_ktype,
-				   per_cpu(threshold_banks, cpu)[bank]->kobj,
-				   get_name(bank, b));
+	err = kobject_init_and_add(&b->kobj, &threshold_ktype, tb->kobj, get_name(bank, b));
 	if (err)
 		goto out_free;
 recurse:

@@ -1260,7 +1257,7 @@ static int allocate_threshold_blocks(unsigned int cpu, unsigned int bank,
 	if (!address)
 		return 0;
 
-	err = allocate_threshold_blocks(cpu, bank, block, address);
+	err = allocate_threshold_blocks(cpu, tb, bank, block, address);
 	if (err)
 		goto out_free;
 

@@ -1345,8 +1342,6 @@ static int threshold_create_bank(unsigned int cpu, unsigned int bank)
 		goto out_free;
 	}
 
-	per_cpu(threshold_banks, cpu)[bank] = b;
-
 	if (is_shared_bank(bank)) {
 		refcount_set(&b->cpus, 1);
 

@@ -1357,9 +1352,13 @@ static int threshold_create_bank(unsigned int cpu, unsigned int bank)
 		}
 	}
 
-	err = allocate_threshold_blocks(cpu, bank, 0, msr_ops.misc(bank));
-	if (!err)
-		goto out;
+	err = allocate_threshold_blocks(cpu, b, bank, 0, msr_ops.misc(bank));
+	if (err)
+		goto out_free;
+
+	per_cpu(threshold_banks, cpu)[bank] = b;
+
+	return 0;
 
  out_free:
 	kfree(b);