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Message-ID: <cb138f5d-2470-bfcc-9939-fcaec24de100@huaweicloud.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2025 09:30:55 +0800
From: Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@...weicloud.com>
To: Qasim Ijaz <qasdev00@...il.com>, adilger.kernel@...ger.ca, tytso@....edu
Cc: linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
 stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND] ext4: Fix potential NULL pointer dereferences in
 test_mb_mark_used() and test_mb_free_blocks()



on 3/13/2025 8:00 AM, Qasim Ijaz wrote:
> test_mb_mark_used() and test_mb_free_blocks() call kunit_kzalloc() to 
> allocate memory, however both fail to ensure that the allocations 
> succeeded. If kunit_kzalloc() returns NULL, then dereferencing the 
> corresponding pointer without checking for NULL will lead to 
> a NULL pointer dereference.
> 
> To fix this call KUNIT_ASSERT_NOT_ERR_OR_NULL() to ensure 
> the allocation succeeded.
Reviewed-by: Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@...weicloud.com>
> 
> Fixes: ac96b56a2fbd ("ext4: Add unit test for mb_mark_used")
> Fixes: b7098e1fa7bc ("ext4: Add unit test for mb_free_blocks")
> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Qasim Ijaz <qasdev00@...il.com>
> ---
>  fs/ext4/mballoc-test.c | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/ext4/mballoc-test.c b/fs/ext4/mballoc-test.c
> index bb2a223b207c..d634c12f1984 100644
> --- a/fs/ext4/mballoc-test.c
> +++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc-test.c
> @@ -796,6 +796,7 @@ static void test_mb_mark_used(struct kunit *test)
>  	KUNIT_ASSERT_NOT_ERR_OR_NULL(test, buddy);
>  	grp = kunit_kzalloc(test, offsetof(struct ext4_group_info,
>  				bb_counters[MB_NUM_ORDERS(sb)]), GFP_KERNEL);
> +	KUNIT_ASSERT_NOT_ERR_OR_NULL(test, grp);
>  
>  	ret = ext4_mb_load_buddy(sb, TEST_GOAL_GROUP, &e4b);
>  	KUNIT_ASSERT_EQ(test, ret, 0);
> @@ -860,6 +861,7 @@ static void test_mb_free_blocks(struct kunit *test)
>  	KUNIT_ASSERT_NOT_ERR_OR_NULL(test, buddy);
>  	grp = kunit_kzalloc(test, offsetof(struct ext4_group_info,
>  				bb_counters[MB_NUM_ORDERS(sb)]), GFP_KERNEL);
> +	KUNIT_ASSERT_NOT_ERR_OR_NULL(test, grp);
>  
>  	ret = ext4_mb_load_buddy(sb, TEST_GOAL_GROUP, &e4b);
>  	KUNIT_ASSERT_EQ(test, ret, 0);
> 


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