linux-kernel - [PATCH v2] pci: pcie-rcar: fix a potential NULL pointer dereference

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-Id: <20190315072943.22923-1-kjlu@umn.edu>
Date:   Fri, 15 Mar 2019 02:29:43 -0500
From:   Kangjie Lu <kjlu@....edu>
To:     kjlu@....edu
Cc:     Simon Horman <horms@...ge.net.au>,
        Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@....com>,
        Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-renesas-soc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2] pci: pcie-rcar: fix a potential NULL pointer dereference

In case __get_free_pages fails and returns NULL, the fix returns
-ENOMEM and releases resources to avoid NULL pointer dereference.

Signed-off-by: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@....edu>
Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@...der.be>

---
V2 removes the error message.
---
 drivers/pci/controller/pcie-rcar.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/pci/controller/pcie-rcar.c b/drivers/pci/controller/pcie-rcar.c
index c8febb009454..71e55995c058 100644
--- a/drivers/pci/controller/pcie-rcar.c
+++ b/drivers/pci/controller/pcie-rcar.c
@@ -929,6 +929,10 @@ static int rcar_pcie_enable_msi(struct rcar_pcie *pcie)
 
 	/* setup MSI data target */
 	msi->pages = __get_free_pages(GFP_KERNEL, 0);
+	if (!msi->pages) {
+		err = -ENOMEM;
+		goto err;
+	}
 	base = virt_to_phys((void *)msi->pages);
 
 	rcar_pci_write_reg(pcie, base | MSIFE, PCIEMSIALR);
-- 
2.17.1