linux-kernel - [PATCH] clkdev: fix potential NULL pointer dereference

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Message-Id: <20240507064434.3213933-1-m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Date: Tue,  7 May 2024 08:44:34 +0200
From: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>
To: linux-clk@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>, Russell King
	<linux@...linux.org.uk>, Michael Turquette <mturquette@...libre.com>,
	Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] clkdev: fix potential NULL pointer dereference

dev_fmt argument is optional, so avoid dereferencing it unconditionally.

Fixes: 4d11c62ca8d7 ("clkdev: report over-sized strings when creating clkdev entries")
Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>
---

This fixes the following kernel panic observed on Samsung Exynos542x
SoCs family:

8<--- cut here ---
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000 when read
[00000000] *pgd=00000000
Internal error: Oops: 5 [#1] PREEMPT SMP ARM
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 6.8.0-00001-g4d11c62ca8d7 #14975
Hardware name: Samsung Exynos (Flattened Device Tree)
PC is at vsnprintf+0x4c/0x3c8
LR is at init_stack+0x1dd6/0x2000
pc : [<c0c09d3c>]    lr : [<c1301dd6>]    psr: 800000d3
..
Flags: Nzcv  IRQs off  FIQs off  Mode SVC_32  ISA ARM  Segment none
Control: 10c5387d  Table: 4000406a  DAC: 00000051
..
Process swapper/0 (pid: 0, stack limit = 0x(ptrval))
Stack: (0xc1301c70 to 0xc1302000)
..
 vsnprintf from va_format.constprop.0+0x70/0x160
 va_format.constprop.0 from pointer+0x454/0x670
 pointer from vsnprintf+0x228/0x3c8
 vsnprintf from vprintk_store+0x100/0x428
 vprintk_store from vprintk_emit+0x6c/0x328
 vprintk_emit from vprintk_default+0x24/0x2c
 vprintk_default from _printk+0x28/0x4c
 _printk from vclkdev_alloc+0xf0/0x110
 vclkdev_alloc from clkdev_hw_create+0x28/0x88
 clkdev_hw_create from clk_hw_register_clkdev+0x38/0x3c
 clk_hw_register_clkdev from samsung_clk_register_fixed_rate+0xa4/0xd4
 samsung_clk_register_fixed_rate from exynos5x_clk_init+0xf0/0x2b0
 exynos5x_clk_init from of_clk_init+0x15c/0x228
 of_clk_init from time_init+0x24/0x30
 time_init from start_kernel+0x4b8/0x620
 start_kernel from 0x0
Code: e09e9001 e1a05002 e28da01c 2a000086 (e5d50000)
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill the idle task!
---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill the idle task! ]---

Best regards
Marek Szyprowski, PhD
Samsung R&D Institute Poland
---
 drivers/clk/clkdev.c | 10 ++++++----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/clk/clkdev.c b/drivers/clk/clkdev.c
index ddacab7863d0..d2801ae70e34 100644
--- a/drivers/clk/clkdev.c
+++ b/drivers/clk/clkdev.c
@@ -194,10 +194,12 @@ vclkdev_alloc(struct clk_hw *hw, const char *con_id, const char *dev_fmt,
 	return &cla->cl;
 
 fail:
-	fmt.fmt = dev_fmt;
-	fmt.va = &ap_copy;
-	pr_err("%pV:%s: %s ID is greater than %zu\n",
-	       &fmt, con_id, failure, max_size);
+	if (dev_fmt) {
+		fmt.fmt = dev_fmt;
+		fmt.va = &ap_copy;
+		pr_err("%pV:%s: %s ID is greater than %zu\n",
+		       &fmt, con_id, failure, max_size);
+	}
 	va_end(ap_copy);
 	kfree(cla);
 	return NULL;
-- 
2.34.1