Patch "net/irda: fix NULL pointer dereference on memory allocation failure" has been added to the 3.14-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    net/irda: fix NULL pointer dereference on memory allocation failure

to the 3.14-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     net-irda-fix-null-pointer-dereference-on-memory-allocation-failure.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From foo@baz Sun Aug 14 20:39:28 CEST 2016
From: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2016 07:43:50 +0200
Subject: net/irda: fix NULL pointer dereference on memory allocation failure
Status: RO
Content-Length: 2956
Lines: 66

From: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>

[ Upstream commit d3e6952cfb7ba5f4bfa29d4803ba91f96ce1204d ]

I ran into this:

    kasan: CONFIG_KASAN_INLINE enabled
    kasan: GPF could be caused by NULL-ptr deref or user memory access
    general protection fault: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN
    CPU: 2 PID: 2012 Comm: trinity-c3 Not tainted 4.7.0-rc7+ #19
    Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Ubuntu-1.8.2-1ubuntu1 04/01/2014
    task: ffff8800b745f2c0 ti: ffff880111740000 task.ti: ffff880111740000
    RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff82bbf066>]  [<ffffffff82bbf066>] irttp_connect_request+0x36/0x710
    RSP: 0018:ffff880111747bb8  EFLAGS: 00010286
    RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000069dd8358
    RDX: 0000000000000009 RSI: 0000000000000027 RDI: 0000000000000048
    RBP: ffff880111747c00 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
    R10: 0000000069dd8358 R11: 1ffffffff0759723 R12: 0000000000000000
    R13: ffff88011a7e4780 R14: 0000000000000027 R15: 0000000000000000
    FS:  00007fc738404700(0000) GS:ffff88011af00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
    CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
    CR2: 00007fc737fdfb10 CR3: 0000000118087000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
    Stack:
     0000000000000200 ffff880111747bd8 ffffffff810ee611 ffff880119f1f220
     ffff880119f1f4f8 ffff880119f1f4f0 ffff88011a7e4780 ffff880119f1f232
     ffff880119f1f220 ffff880111747d58 ffffffff82bca542 0000000000000000
    Call Trace:
     [<ffffffff82bca542>] irda_connect+0x562/0x1190
     [<ffffffff825ae582>] SYSC_connect+0x202/0x2a0
     [<ffffffff825b4489>] SyS_connect+0x9/0x10
     [<ffffffff8100334c>] do_syscall_64+0x19c/0x410
     [<ffffffff83295ca5>] entry_SYSCALL64_slow_path+0x25/0x25
    Code: 41 89 ca 48 89 e5 41 57 41 56 41 55 41 54 41 89 d7 53 48 89 fb 48 83 c7 48 48 89 fa 41 89 f6 48 c1 ea 03 48 83 ec 20 4c 8b 65 10 <0f> b6 04 02 84 c0 74 08 84 c0 0f 8e 4c 04 00 00 80 7b 48 00 74
    RIP  [<ffffffff82bbf066>] irttp_connect_request+0x36/0x710
     RSP <ffff880111747bb8>
    ---[ end trace 4cda2588bc055b30 ]---

The problem is that irda_open_tsap() can fail and leave self->tsap = NULL,
and then irttp_connect_request() almost immediately dereferences it.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 net/irda/af_irda.c |    7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/net/irda/af_irda.c
+++ b/net/irda/af_irda.c
@@ -1037,8 +1037,11 @@ static int irda_connect(struct socket *s
 	}
 
 	/* Check if we have opened a local TSAP */
-	if (!self->tsap)
-		irda_open_tsap(self, LSAP_ANY, addr->sir_name);
+	if (!self->tsap) {
+		err = irda_open_tsap(self, LSAP_ANY, addr->sir_name);
+		if (err)
+			goto out;
+	}
 
 	/* Move to connecting socket, start sending Connect Requests */
 	sock->state = SS_CONNECTING;


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from vegard.nossum@oracle.com are

queue-3.14/ext4-short-cut-orphan-cleanup-on-error.patch
queue-3.14/block-fix-use-after-free-in-seq-file.patch
queue-3.14/ext4-check-for-extents-that-wrap-around.patch
queue-3.14/net-irda-fix-null-pointer-dereference-on-memory-allocation-failure.patch
queue-3.14/ext4-don-t-call-ext4_should_journal_data-on-the-journal-inode.patch