linux-kernel - [PATCH -next v3 1/2] watchdog: Fix potential dereferencing of null pointer

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Date:   Thu, 5 Nov 2020 12:38:47 +0000
From:   Wang Wensheng <wangwensheng4@...wei.com>
To:     <wim@...ux-watchdog.org>, <linux@...ck-us.net>,
        <linux-watchdog@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
CC:     <rui.xiang@...wei.com>, <guohanjun@...wei.com>
Subject: [PATCH -next v3 1/2] watchdog: Fix potential dereferencing of null pointer

A reboot notifier, which stops the WDT by calling the stop hook without
any check, would be registered when we set WDOG_STOP_ON_REBOOT flag.

Howerer we allow the WDT driver to omit the stop hook since commit
"d0684c8a93549" ("watchdog: Make stop function optional") and provide
a module parameter for user that controls the WDOG_STOP_ON_REBOOT flag
in commit 9232c80659e94 ("watchdog: Add stop_on_reboot parameter to
control reboot policy"). Together that commits make user potential to
insert a watchdog driver that don't provide a stop hook but with the
stop_on_reboot parameter set, then dereferencing of null pointer occurs
on system reboot.

Check the stop hook before registering the reboot notifier to fix the
issue.

Fixes: d0684c8a9354 ("watchdog: Make stop function optional")
Signed-off-by: Wang Wensheng <wangwensheng4@...wei.com>
---
 drivers/watchdog/watchdog_core.c | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_core.c b/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_core.c
index 423844757812..945ab38b14b8 100644
--- a/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_core.c
+++ b/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_core.c
@@ -267,8 +267,15 @@ static int __watchdog_register_device(struct watchdog_device *wdd)
 	}

 	if (test_bit(WDOG_STOP_ON_REBOOT, &wdd->status)) {
-		wdd->reboot_nb.notifier_call = watchdog_reboot_notifier;
+		if (!wdd->ops->stop) {
+			pr_err("watchdog%d: Cannot support stop_on_reboot\n",
+				wdd->id);
+			watchdog_dev_unregister(wdd);
+			ida_simple_remove(&watchdog_ida, id);
+			return -EINVAL;
+		}

+		wdd->reboot_nb.notifier_call = watchdog_reboot_notifier;
 		ret = register_reboot_notifier(&wdd->reboot_nb);
 		if (ret) {
 			pr_err("watchdog%d: Cannot register reboot notifier (%d)\n",
-- 
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