linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/2] kobject: Add sanity check for kset->kobj.ktype in kset

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Message-Id: <20230805084114.1298-2-thunder.leizhen@huaweicloud.com>
Date:   Sat,  5 Aug 2023 16:41:13 +0800
From:   thunder.leizhen@...weicloud.com
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        "Rafael J . Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@...wei.com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] kobject: Add sanity check for kset->kobj.ktype in kset_register()

From: Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@...wei.com>

When I register a kset in the following way:
	static struct kset my_kset;
	kobject_set_name(&my_kset.kobj, "my_kset");
        ret = kset_register(&my_kset);

A null pointer dereference exception is occurred:
[ 4453.568337] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at \
virtual address 0000000000000028
... ...
[ 4453.810361] Call trace:
[ 4453.813062]  kobject_get_ownership+0xc/0x34
[ 4453.817493]  kobject_add_internal+0x98/0x274
[ 4453.822005]  kset_register+0x5c/0xb4
[ 4453.825820]  my_kobj_init+0x44/0x1000 [my_kset]
... ...

Because I didn't initialize my_kset.kobj.ktype.

According to the description in Documentation/core-api/kobject.rst:
 - A ktype is the type of object that embeds a kobject.  Every structure
   that embeds a kobject needs a corresponding ktype.

So add sanity check to make sure kset->kobj.ktype is not NULL.

Signed-off-by: Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@...wei.com>
---
 lib/kobject.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/kobject.c b/lib/kobject.c
index 14e845209226ab8..72fa20f405f1520 100644
--- a/lib/kobject.c
+++ b/lib/kobject.c
@@ -861,6 +861,11 @@ int kset_register(struct kset *k)
 	if (!k)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
+	if (!k->kobj.ktype) {
+		pr_err("must have a ktype to be initialized properly!\n");
+		return -EINVAL;
+	}
+
 	kset_init(k);
 	err = kobject_add_internal(&k->kobj);
 	if (err) {
-- 
2.34.1