linux-kernel - [PATCH] scsi: mpt3sas: FIx a NULL pointer dereference bug in mpt3sas_transport_port

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Message-Id: <20220124172120.62828-1-zhou1615@umn.edu>
Date:   Tue, 25 Jan 2022 01:21:20 +0800
From:   Zhou Qingyang <zhou1615@....edu>
To:     zhou1615@....edu
Cc:     kjlu@....edu, Sathya Prakash <sathya.prakash@...adcom.com>,
        Sreekanth Reddy <sreekanth.reddy@...adcom.com>,
        Suganath Prabu Subramani 
        <suganath-prabu.subramani@...adcom.com>,
        "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@...ux.ibm.com>,
        "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
        Nagalakshmi Nandigama <Nagalakshmi.Nandigama@....com>,
        James Bottomley <JBottomley@...allels.com>,
        MPT-FusionLinux.pdl@...adcom.com, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] scsi: mpt3sas: FIx a NULL pointer dereference bug in mpt3sas_transport_port_add()

In mpt3sas_transport_port_add(), sas_end_device_alloc() is assigned to rphy
and there is a dereference of it. sas_end_device_alloc() could return NULL
on failure of allocation, which could introduce a NULL pointer dereference
bug.

The same as sas_expander_alloc().

Fix this bug by adding a NULL check of rphy.

This bug was found by a static analyzer.

Builds with 'make allyesconfig' show no new warnings,
and our static analyzer no longer warns about this code.

Fixes: f92363d12359 ("mpt3sas: add new driver supporting 12GB SAS")
Signed-off-by: Zhou Qingyang <zhou1615@....edu>
---
The analysis employs differential checking to identify inconsistent 
security operations (e.g., checks or kfrees) between two code paths 
and confirms that the inconsistent operations are not recovered in the
current function or the callers, so they constitute bugs. 

Note that, as a bug found by static analysis, it can be a false
positive or hard to trigger. Multiple researchers have cross-reviewed
the bug.

 drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_transport.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_transport.c b/drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_transport.c
index 0681daee6c14..1caa929cf8bc 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_transport.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_transport.c
@@ -823,6 +823,11 @@ mpt3sas_transport_port_add(struct MPT3SAS_ADAPTER *ioc, u16 handle,
 			hba_port->sas_address =
 			    mpt3sas_port->remote_identify.sas_address;
 	}
+	if (!rphy) {
+		ioc_err(ioc, "failure at %s:%d/%s()!\n",
+			__FILE__, __LINE__, __func__);
+		goto out_fail;
+	}
 
 	rphy->identify = mpt3sas_port->remote_identify;
 
-- 
2.25.1