netdev - Re: [PATCH] brcmfmac: Fix a NULL pointer dereference in brcmf_of

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Date:   Wed, 26 Jan 2022 14:44:15 +0100
From:   Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@...adcom.com>
To:     Zhou Qingyang <zhou1615@....edu>
Cc:     kjlu@....edu, Arend van Spriel <aspriel@...il.com>,
        Franky Lin <franky.lin@...adcom.com>,
        Hante Meuleman <hante.meuleman@...adcom.com>,
        Chi-hsien Lin <chi-hsien.lin@...ineon.com>,
        Wright Feng <wright.feng@...ineon.com>,
        Chung-hsien Hsu <chung-hsien.hsu@...ineon.com>,
        Kalle Valo <kvalo@...nel.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Len Baker <len.baker@....com>,
        "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@...nel.org>,
        Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@...aro.org>,
        Hans deGoede <hdegoede@...hat.com>,
        Matthias Brugger <mbrugger@...e.com>,
        linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
        brcm80211-dev-list.pdl@...adcom.com,
        SHA-cyfmac-dev-list@...ineon.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] brcmfmac: Fix a NULL pointer dereference in
 brcmf_of_probe()

On 1/24/2022 5:50 PM, 'Zhou Qingyang' via BRCM80211-DEV-LIST,PDL wrote:
> In brcmf_of_probe(), the return value of devm_kzalloc() is assigned to
> board_type and there is a dereference of it in strcpy() right after
> that. devm_kzalloc() could return NULL on failure of allocation, which
> could lead to NULL pointer dereference.
> 
> Fix this bug by adding a NULL check of board_type.
> 
> This bug was found by a static analyzer.
> 
> Builds with 'make allyesconfig' show no new warnings,
> and our static analyzer no longer warns about this code

Thanks for this suggestion. However, this has been addressed already by 
this patch [1].

Regards,
Arend

[1] 
https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-wireless/patch/20220117142919.207370-8-marcan@marcan.st/

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