linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] fprobe: Check rethook_alloc() return in rethook initialization

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Message-Id: <20221025170346.2fbd0158e98882dd09812431@kernel.org>
Date:   Tue, 25 Oct 2022 17:03:46 +0900
From:   Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@...nel.org>
To:     Rafael Mendonca <rafaelmendsr@...il.com>
Cc:     Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fprobe: Check rethook_alloc() return in rethook
 initialization

On Tue, 25 Oct 2022 00:12:08 -0300
Rafael Mendonca <rafaelmendsr@...il.com> wrote:

> Check if fp->rethook succeeded to be allocated. Otherwise, if
> rethook_alloc() fails, then we end up dereferencing a NULL pointer in
> rethook_add_node().

Good catch!

Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@...nel.org>

Thank you!

> 
> Fixes: 5b0ab78998e3 ("fprobe: Add exit_handler support")
> Signed-off-by: Rafael Mendonca <rafaelmendsr@...il.com>
> ---
>  kernel/trace/fprobe.c | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/trace/fprobe.c b/kernel/trace/fprobe.c
> index aac63ca9c3d1..71614b2a67ff 100644
> --- a/kernel/trace/fprobe.c
> +++ b/kernel/trace/fprobe.c
> @@ -141,6 +141,8 @@ static int fprobe_init_rethook(struct fprobe *fp, int num)
>  		return -E2BIG;
>  
>  	fp->rethook = rethook_alloc((void *)fp, fprobe_exit_handler);
> +	if (!fp->rethook)
> +		return -ENOMEM;
>  	for (i = 0; i < size; i++) {
>  		struct fprobe_rethook_node *node;
>  
> -- 
> 2.34.1
> 


-- 
Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@...nel.org>