linux-kernel - [PATCH] kdb: prevent possible null deref in kdb_msg

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Date:   Mon, 29 Jun 2020 16:59:24 +0300
From:   Cengiz Can <cengiz@...nel.wtf>
To:     Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@...driver.com>,
        Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@...aro.org>,
        Douglas Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>
Cc:     kgdb-bugreport@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Sumit Garg <sumit.garg@...aro.org>,
        Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
        Cengiz Can <cengiz@...nel.wtf>
Subject: [PATCH] kdb: prevent possible null deref in kdb_msg_write

`kdb_msg_write` operates on a global `struct kgdb_io *` called
`dbg_io_ops`.

Although it is initialized in `debug_core.c`, there's a null check in
`kdb_msg_write` which implies that it can be null whenever we dereference
it in this function call.

Coverity scanner caught this as CID 1465042.

I have modified the function to bail out if `dbg_io_ops` is not properly
initialized.

Signed-off-by: Cengiz Can <cengiz@...nel.wtf>
---
 kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_io.c | 15 ++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_io.c b/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_io.c
index 683a799618ad..85e579812458 100644
--- a/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_io.c
+++ b/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_io.c
@@ -549,14 +549,15 @@ static void kdb_msg_write(const char *msg, int msg_len)
 	if (msg_len == 0)
 		return;
 
-	if (dbg_io_ops) {
-		const char *cp = msg;
-		int len = msg_len;
+	if (!dbg_io_ops)
+		return;
 
-		while (len--) {
-			dbg_io_ops->write_char(*cp);
-			cp++;
-		}
+	const char *cp = msg;
+	int len = msg_len;
+
+	while (len--) {
+		dbg_io_ops->write_char(*cp);
+		cp++;
 	}
 
 	for_each_console(c) {
-- 
2.27.0