Re: [PATCH 1/5] debugfs: Prevent NULL dereference reading from string property

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Tue, May 16, 2023 at 05:07:49PM +0100, Richard Fitzgerald wrote:
> Check in debugfs_read_file_str() if the string pointer is NULL.
> 
> It is perfectly reasonable that a driver may wish to export a string
> to debugfs that can have the value NULL to indicate empty/unused/ignore.

Does any in-kernel driver do this today?

If not, why not fix up the driver instead?

> 
> Signed-off-by: Richard Fitzgerald <rf@opensource.cirrus.com>
> ---
>  fs/debugfs/file.c | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/debugfs/file.c b/fs/debugfs/file.c
> index 1f971c880dde..2c085ab4e800 100644
> --- a/fs/debugfs/file.c
> +++ b/fs/debugfs/file.c
> @@ -878,6 +878,9 @@ ssize_t debugfs_read_file_str(struct file *file, char __user *user_buf,
>  		return ret;
>  
>  	str = *(char **)file->private_data;
> +	if (!str)
> +		return simple_read_from_buffer(user_buf, count, ppos, "\n", 1);

Why not print "(NULL)"?

thanks,

greg k-h