From: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
To: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@kernel.org>,
Tyrel Datwyler <tyreld@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>,
Haren Myneni <haren@linux.ibm.com>,
linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][next] powerpc/vas: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2021 09:30:53 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h7d3beqq.fsf@mpe.ellerman.id.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211026184201.GB1457721@embeddedor>
"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@kernel.org> writes:
> On Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 02:09:31PM -0700, Tyrel Datwyler wrote:
>> On 10/14/21 10:03 PM, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
>> > (!ptr && !ptr->foo) strikes again. :)
>> >
>> > The expression (!ptr && !ptr->foo) is bogus and in case ptr is NULL,
>> > it leads to a NULL pointer dereference: ptr->foo.
>> >
>> > Fix this by converting && to ||
>> >
>> > This issue was detected with the help of Coccinelle, and audited and
>> > fixed manually.
>> >
>> > Fixes: 1a0d0d5ed5e3 ("powerpc/vas: Add platform specific user window operations")
>> > Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
>> > Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
>> Looking at the usage pattern it is obvious that if we determine !ptr attempting
>> to also confirm !ptr->ops is going to blow up.
>>
>> LGTM.
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Tyrel Datwyler <tyreld@linux.ibm.com>
>
> I think I'll take this in my tree.
I've already put it in powerpc/next:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux.git/commit/?h=next&id=61cb9ac66b30374c7fd8a8b2a3c4f8f432c72e36
If you need to pick it up as well for some reason that's fine.
cheers
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From: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
To: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@kernel.org>,
Tyrel Datwyler <tyreld@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Haren Myneni <haren@linux.ibm.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][next] powerpc/vas: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2021 09:30:53 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h7d3beqq.fsf@mpe.ellerman.id.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211026184201.GB1457721@embeddedor>
"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@kernel.org> writes:
> On Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 02:09:31PM -0700, Tyrel Datwyler wrote:
>> On 10/14/21 10:03 PM, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
>> > (!ptr && !ptr->foo) strikes again. :)
>> >
>> > The expression (!ptr && !ptr->foo) is bogus and in case ptr is NULL,
>> > it leads to a NULL pointer dereference: ptr->foo.
>> >
>> > Fix this by converting && to ||
>> >
>> > This issue was detected with the help of Coccinelle, and audited and
>> > fixed manually.
>> >
>> > Fixes: 1a0d0d5ed5e3 ("powerpc/vas: Add platform specific user window operations")
>> > Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
>> > Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
>> Looking at the usage pattern it is obvious that if we determine !ptr attempting
>> to also confirm !ptr->ops is going to blow up.
>>
>> LGTM.
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Tyrel Datwyler <tyreld@linux.ibm.com>
>
> I think I'll take this in my tree.
I've already put it in powerpc/next:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux.git/commit/?h=next&id=61cb9ac66b30374c7fd8a8b2a3c4f8f432c72e36
If you need to pick it up as well for some reason that's fine.
cheers
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-10-26 22:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-10-15 5:03 [PATCH][next] powerpc/vas: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference Gustavo A. R. Silva
2021-10-15 5:03 ` Gustavo A. R. Silva
2021-10-18 21:09 ` Tyrel Datwyler
2021-10-18 21:09 ` Tyrel Datwyler
2021-10-18 21:26 ` Gustavo A. R. Silva
2021-10-18 21:26 ` Gustavo A. R. Silva
2021-10-26 18:42 ` Gustavo A. R. Silva
2021-10-26 18:42 ` Gustavo A. R. Silva
2021-10-26 22:30 ` Michael Ellerman [this message]
2021-10-26 22:30 ` Michael Ellerman
2021-10-26 22:40 ` Gustavo A. R. Silva
2021-10-26 22:40 ` Gustavo A. R. Silva
2021-10-27 11:21 ` Michael Ellerman
2021-10-27 11:21 ` Michael Ellerman
2021-11-02 10:11 ` Michael Ellerman
2021-11-02 10:11 ` Michael Ellerman
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