Dan Williams 1cb95e072e libnvdimm/dimm: Fix security capability detection for non-Intel NVDIMMs
Kees reports a crash with the following signature...

 RIP: 0010:nvdimm_visible+0x79/0x80
 [..]
 Call Trace:
  internal_create_group+0xf4/0x380
  sysfs_create_groups+0x46/0xb0
  device_add+0x331/0x680
  nd_async_device_register+0x15/0x60
  async_run_entry_fn+0x38/0x100

...when starting a QEMU environment with "label-less" DIMM. Without
labels QEMU does not publish any DSM methods. Without defined methods
the NVDIMM_FAMILY type is not established and the nfit driver will skip
registering security operations.

In that case the security state should be initialized to a negative
value in __nvdimm_create() and nvdimm_visible() should skip
interrogating the specific ops. However, since 'enum
nvdimm_security_state' was only defined to contain positive values the
"if (nvdimm->sec.state < 0)" check always fails.

Define a negative error state to allow negative state values to be
handled as expected.

Fixes: f298939655 ("acpi/nfit, libnvdimm: Introduce nvdimm_security_ops")
Reviewed-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
Reported-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Tested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2019-01-08 22:06:09 -08:00
2018-10-31 08:54:14 -07:00
2019-01-04 14:27:09 -07:00
2019-01-06 17:08:20 -08:00

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