linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] serial: 8250: fix null-ptr-deref in serial8250_start

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Date:   Wed, 22 Jul 2020 09:56:38 +0800
From:   "liwei (GF)" <liwei391@...wei.com>
To:     Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@...wei.com>,
        <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
CC:     <jslaby@...e.com>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-serial@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] serial: 8250: fix null-ptr-deref in serial8250_start_tx()

Hi Yingliang,

On 2020/7/21 22:38, Yang Yingliang wrote:
(SNIP)
> 
> SERIAL_PORT_DFNS is not defined on each arch, if it's not defined,
> serial8250_set_defaults() won't be called in serial8250_isa_init_ports(),
> so the p->serial_in pointer won't be initialized, and it leads a null-ptr-deref.
> Fix this problem by calling serial8250_set_defaults() after init uart port.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@...wei.com>
> ---
>  drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c
> index fc118f649887..cae61d1ebec5 100644
> --- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c
> +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c
> @@ -524,6 +524,7 @@ static void __init serial8250_isa_init_ports(void)
>  		 */
>  		up->mcr_mask = ~ALPHA_KLUDGE_MCR;
>  		up->mcr_force = ALPHA_KLUDGE_MCR;
> +		serial8250_set_defaults(up);

That is really a good catch, but this modification looks not good to me.

First, serial8250_set_defaults()'s parameter 'up' updated in the loop below is used to
lead to different branch in this function. So that the logic is broken.

Second, up->port.iobase and up->port.iotype are both initialized to 0, so the 'serial_in'
and 'serial_out' will be assigned to the ops for IO space with port 0 here, i don't think
that is correct.

>  	}
>  
>  	/* chain base port ops to support Remote Supervisor Adapter */
> @@ -547,7 +548,6 @@ static void __init serial8250_isa_init_ports(void)
>  		port->membase  = old_serial_port[i].iomem_base;
>  		port->iotype   = old_serial_port[i].io_type;
>  		port->regshift = old_serial_port[i].iomem_reg_shift;
> -		serial8250_set_defaults(up);
>  
>  		port->irqflags |= irqflag;
>  		if (serial8250_isa_config != NULL)
> 


Thanks,
Wei