linux-kernel - [PATCH] scripts/mod/modpost: fix null pointer dereference

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Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2024 15:13:21 +0100
From: Max Kellermann <max.kellermann@...os.com>
To: masahiroy@...nel.org,
	nathan@...nel.org,
	nicolas@...sle.eu,
	linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Max Kellermann <max.kellermann@...os.com>
Subject: [PATCH] scripts/mod/modpost: fix null pointer dereference

If the find_fromsym() call fails and returns NULL, the warn() call
will dereference this NULL pointer and cause the program to crash.

This happened when I tried to build with "test_user_copy" module.
With this fix, it prints lots of warnings like this:

 WARNING: modpost: lib/test_user_copy: section mismatch in reference: (unknown)+0x4 (section: .text.fixup) -> (unknown) (section: .init.text)

Signed-off-by: Max Kellermann <max.kellermann@...os.com>
---
 scripts/mod/modpost.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/scripts/mod/modpost.c b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
index bf7c4b4b5ff4..6b37039c9e92 100644
--- a/scripts/mod/modpost.c
+++ b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
@@ -1050,7 +1050,9 @@ static void default_mismatch_handler(const char *modname, struct elf_info *elf,
 	sec_mismatch_count++;
 
 	warn("%s: section mismatch in reference: %s+0x%x (section: %s) -> %s (section: %s)\n",
-	     modname, fromsym, (unsigned int)(faddr - from->st_value), fromsec, tosym, tosec);
+	     modname, fromsym,
+	     (unsigned int)(faddr - (from ? from->st_value : 0)),
+	     fromsec, tosym, tosec);
 
 	if (mismatch->mismatch == EXTABLE_TO_NON_TEXT) {
 		if (match(tosec, mismatch->bad_tosec))
-- 
2.39.2