[PATCH 6.19 569/781] staging: greybus: lights: avoid NULL deref

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-02-25T01:37:35Z

From: Chaitanya Mishra <chaitanyamishra.ai@gmail.com>

[ Upstream commit efcffd9a6ad8d190651498d5eda53bfc7cf683a7 ]

gb_lights_light_config() stores channel_count before allocating the
channels array. If kcalloc() fails, gb_lights_release() iterates the
non-zero count and dereferences light->channels, which is NULL.

Allocate channels first and only then publish channels_count so the
cleanup path can't walk a NULL pointer.

Fixes: 2870b52bae4c ("greybus: lights: add lights implementation")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260108103700.15384-1-chaitanyamishra.ai@gmail.com/
Reviewed-by: Rui Miguel Silva <rui.silva@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Chaitanya Mishra <chaitanyamishra.ai@gmail.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260108151254.81553-1-chaitanyamishra.ai@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
drivers/staging/greybus/light.c | 8 ++++++--
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/greybus/light.c b/drivers/staging/greybus/light.c
index e509fdc715dbb..38c233a706c48 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/greybus/light.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/greybus/light.c
@@ -1008,14 +1008,18 @@ static int gb_lights_light_config(struct gb_lights *glights, u8 id)
if (!strlen(conf.name))
return -EINVAL;

- light->channels_count = conf.channel_count;
light->name = kstrndup(conf.name, NAMES_MAX, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!light->name)
return -ENOMEM;
- light->channels = kcalloc(light->channels_count,
+ light->channels = kcalloc(conf.channel_count,
sizeof(struct gb_channel), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!light->channels)
return -ENOMEM;
+ /*
+ * Publish channels_count only after channels allocation so cleanup
+ * doesn't walk a NULL channels pointer on allocation failure.
+ */
+ light->channels_count = conf.channel_count;

/* First we collect all the configurations for all channels */
for (i = 0; i < light->channels_count; i++) {
--
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