From: Marco Pagani <marco.pagani@linux.dev>
To: Qasim Ijaz <qasdev00@gmail.com>,
mdf@kernel.org, hao.wu@intel.com, yilun.xu@intel.com,
trix@redhat.com, marpagan@redhat.com, russ.weight@linux.dev
Cc: linux-fpga@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fpga: fix potential null pointer deref in fpga_mgr_test_img_load_sgt()
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2025 23:00:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dfe1d14f-1488-4a6b-b864-2b9c23ae16df@linux.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250311234509.15523-1-qasdev00@gmail.com>
On 2025-03-12 00:45, Qasim Ijaz wrote:
> fpga_mgr_test_img_load_sgt() allocates memory for sgt using
> kunit_kzalloc() however it does not check if the allocation failed.
> It then passes sgt to sg_alloc_table(), which passes it to
> __sg_alloc_table(). This function calls memset() on sgt in an attempt to
> zero it out. If the allocation fails then sgt will be NULL and the
> memset will trigger a NULL pointer dereference.
>
> Fix this by checking the allocation with KUNIT_ASSERT_NOT_ERR_OR_NULL().
>
> Fixes: ccbc1c302115 ("fpga: add an initial KUnit suite for the FPGA Manager")
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Qasim Ijaz <qasdev00@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Marco Pagani <marco.pagani@linux.dev>
> ---
> drivers/fpga/tests/fpga-mgr-test.c | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/fpga/tests/fpga-mgr-test.c b/drivers/fpga/tests/fpga-mgr-test.c
> index 9cb37aefbac4..1902ebf5a298 100644
> --- a/drivers/fpga/tests/fpga-mgr-test.c
> +++ b/drivers/fpga/tests/fpga-mgr-test.c
> @@ -263,6 +263,7 @@ static void fpga_mgr_test_img_load_sgt(struct kunit *test)
> img_buf = init_test_buffer(test, IMAGE_SIZE);
>
> sgt = kunit_kzalloc(test, sizeof(*sgt), GFP_KERNEL);
> + KUNIT_ASSERT_NOT_ERR_OR_NULL(test, sgt);
> ret = sg_alloc_table(sgt, 1, GFP_KERNEL);
> KUNIT_ASSERT_EQ(test, ret, 0);
> sg_init_one(sgt->sgl, img_buf, IMAGE_SIZE);
Thanks,
Marco
prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-03-16 22:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-03-11 23:45 [PATCH] fpga: fix potential null pointer deref in fpga_mgr_test_img_load_sgt() Qasim Ijaz
2025-03-12 13:01 ` Markus Elfring
2025-03-12 15:07 ` Greg KH
2025-03-16 22:00 ` Marco Pagani [this message]
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