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Message-ID: <m3ttlolktk.fsf@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 02 Mar 2024 15:23:03 +0000
From: Rui Miguel Silva <rmfrfs@...il.com>
To: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...aro.org>, Mikhail Lobanov
<m.lobanov@...alinux.ru>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
greybus-dev@...ts.linaro.org, linux-staging@...ts.linux.dev,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] greybus: Fix deref of NULL in
__gb_lights_flash_brightness_set
Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...aro.org> writes:
Hi Dan,
> On Fri, Mar 01, 2024 at 02:04:24PM -0500, Mikhail Lobanov wrote:
>> Dereference of null pointer in the __gb_lights_flash_brightness_set function.
>> Assigning the channel the result of executing the get_channel_from_mode function
>> without checking for NULL may result in an error.
>
> get_channel_from_mode() can only return NULL when light->channels_count
> is zero.
>
> Although get_channel_from_mode() seems buggy to me. If it can't
> find the correct mode, it just returns the last channel. So potentially
> it should be made to return NULL.
Correct, thanks for the fix. Will you or me send a proper patch for
this? Taking also the suggestion from Alex.
Thanks in advance.
Cheers,
Rui
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/greybus/light.c b/drivers/staging/greybus/light.c
> index d62f97249aca..acd435f5d25d 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/greybus/light.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/greybus/light.c
> @@ -95,15 +95,15 @@ static struct led_classdev *get_channel_cdev(struct gb_channel *channel)
> static struct gb_channel *get_channel_from_mode(struct gb_light *light,
> u32 mode)
> {
> - struct gb_channel *channel = NULL;
> + struct gb_channel *channel;
> int i;
>
> for (i = 0; i < light->channels_count; i++) {
> channel = &light->channels[i];
> if (channel && channel->mode == mode)
> - break;
> + return channel;
> }
> - return channel;
> + return NULL;
> }
>
> static int __gb_lights_flash_intensity_set(struct gb_channel *channel,
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