Re: [PATCH] ACPI / tables: Fix a NULL pointer dereference in acpi_table_initrd_scan()

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 01:02:37AM +0800, Zhou Qingyang wrote:
> In acpi_table_initrd_scan(), the return value of acpi_os_map_memory()
> is assigned to table and there is a dereference of it after that.
> acpi_os_map_memory() will return NULL on failure, which may lead to NULL
> pointer dereference.
> 
> Fix this bug by adding a NULL check of table.
> 
> 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.
> 
> Fixes: 5ae74f2cc2f1 ("ACPI / tables: Move table override mechanisms to tables.c")
> Signed-off-by: Zhou Qingyang <zhou1615@umn.edu>
> ---
> The analysis employs differential checking to identify inconsistent 
> security operations (e.g., checks or kfrees) between two code paths 
> and confirms that the inconsistent operations are not recovered in the
> current function or the callers, so they constitute bugs. 
> 
> Note that, as a bug found by static analysis, it can be a false
> positive or hard to trigger. Multiple researchers have cross-reviewed
> the bug.
> 
>  drivers/acpi/tables.c | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/tables.c b/drivers/acpi/tables.c
> index 8b10c192ed32..356e08c4015b 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/tables.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/tables.c
> @@ -755,6 +755,9 @@ static void __init acpi_table_initrd_scan(void)
>  	while (table_offset + ACPI_HEADER_SIZE <= all_tables_size) {
>  		table = acpi_os_map_memory(acpi_tables_addr + table_offset,
>  					   ACPI_HEADER_SIZE);
> +		if (!table)
> +			return;
> +
>  		if (table_offset + table->length > all_tables_size) {
>  			acpi_os_unmap_memory(table, ACPI_HEADER_SIZE);
>  			WARN_ON(1);
> -- 
> 2.25.1
> 

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