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Message-ID: <CAMj1kXHggvi9LRXKdEGWEs1xzOpD85H_S3CYQOX3byNaemSkZw@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2022 15:37:38 +0100
From: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>
To: Johan Hovold <johan+linaro@...nel.org>
Cc: linux-efi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
stable@...r.kernel.org, Li Heng <liheng40@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] efi: fix NULL-deref in init error path
On Mon, 19 Dec 2022 at 10:10, Johan Hovold <johan+linaro@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> In case runtime services are not supported or have been disabled the
> runtime services workqueue will never have been allocated.
>
> Do not try to destroy the workqueue unconditionally in the unlikely
> event that EFI initialisation fails to avoid dereferencing a NULL
> pointer.
>
> Fixes: 98086df8b70c ("efi: add missed destroy_workqueue when efisubsys_init fails")
> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
> Cc: Li Heng <liheng40@...wei.com>
> Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan+linaro@...nel.org>
Thanks for the fix - I will queue it up after -rc1
> ---
> drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c | 9 ++++++---
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c
> index 09716eebe8ac..a2b0cbc8741c 100644
> --- a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c
> +++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c
> @@ -394,8 +394,8 @@ static int __init efisubsys_init(void)
> efi_kobj = kobject_create_and_add("efi", firmware_kobj);
> if (!efi_kobj) {
> pr_err("efi: Firmware registration failed.\n");
> - destroy_workqueue(efi_rts_wq);
> - return -ENOMEM;
> + error = -ENOMEM;
> + goto err_destroy_wq;
> }
>
> if (efi_rt_services_supported(EFI_RT_SUPPORTED_GET_VARIABLE |
> @@ -443,7 +443,10 @@ static int __init efisubsys_init(void)
> err_put:
> kobject_put(efi_kobj);
> efi_kobj = NULL;
> - destroy_workqueue(efi_rts_wq);
> +err_destroy_wq:
> + if (efi_rts_wq)
> + destroy_workqueue(efi_rts_wq);
> +
> return error;
> }
>
> --
> 2.37.4
>
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