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cpufreq: qcom: fix writes in read-only memory region
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BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1998398

commit 01039fb upstream.

This commit fixes a kernel oops because of a write in some read-only memory:

	[    9.068287] Unable to handle kernel write to read-only memory at virtual address ffff800009240ad8
	..snip..
	[    9.138790] Internal error: Oops: 9600004f [#1] PREEMPT SMP
	..snip..
	[    9.269161] Call trace:
	[    9.276271]  __memcpy+0x5c/0x230
	[    9.278531]  snprintf+0x58/0x80
	[    9.282002]  qcom_cpufreq_msm8939_name_version+0xb4/0x190
	[    9.284869]  qcom_cpufreq_probe+0xc8/0x39c
	..snip..

The following line defines a pointer that point to a char buffer stored
in read-only memory:

	char *pvs_name = "speedXX-pvsXX-vXX";

This pointer is meant to hold a template "speedXX-pvsXX-vXX" where the
XX values get overridden by the qcom_cpufreq_krait_name_version function. Since
the template is actually stored in read-only memory, when the function
executes the following call we get an oops:

	snprintf(*pvs_name, sizeof("speedXX-pvsXX-vXX"), "speed%d-pvs%d-v%d",
		 speed, pvs, pvs_ver);

To fix this issue, we instead store the template name onto the stack by
using the following syntax:

	char pvs_name_buffer[] = "speedXX-pvsXX-vXX";

Because the `pvs_name` needs to be able to be assigned to NULL, the
template buffer is stored in the pvs_name_buffer and not under the
pvs_name variable.

Cc: v5.7+ <[email protected]> # v5.7+
Fixes: a8811ec ("cpufreq: qcom: Add support for krait based socs")
Signed-off-by: Fabien Parent <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Bader <[email protected]>
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Fabo authored and LukeNow committed Jan 5, 2023
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3 changes: 2 additions & 1 deletion drivers/cpufreq/qcom-cpufreq-nvmem.c
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Expand Up @@ -264,7 +264,8 @@ static int qcom_cpufreq_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
struct nvmem_cell *speedbin_nvmem;
struct device_node *np;
struct device *cpu_dev;
char *pvs_name = "speedXX-pvsXX-vXX";
char pvs_name_buffer[] = "speedXX-pvsXX-vXX";
char *pvs_name = pvs_name_buffer;
unsigned cpu;
const struct of_device_id *match;
int ret;
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