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From: Aleksey Shishkin <demonaxsh@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@ispras.ru, Aleksey Shishkin <aishishkin@cloud.ru>,
	"James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>,
	"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
	Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] scsi: scsi_dh_rdac: fix NULL pointer dereference in error handling
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2026 09:36:28 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260713063640.3081603-1-demonaxsh@gmail.com> (raw)

From: Aleksey Shishkin <aishishkin@cloud.ru>

There is a critical logic error in error handling. If get_controller()
fails and returns NULL, the function sets err = SCSI_DH_RES_TEMP_UNAVAIL.
However, immediately after spin_unlock(), the code unconditionally
overwrites err with SCSI_DH_OK.

This causes the kernel to falsely report a successful initialization,
leading to an inevitable Null Pointer Dereference (Kernel Panic) later
when the driver attempts to use the uninitialized h->ctlr.

Fix this by moving the assignment err = SCSI_DH_OK inside the else block
so it is only set when the controller is successfully acquired.

Signed-off-by: Aleksey Shishkin <aishishkin@cloud.ru>
---
 drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh_rdac.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh_rdac.c b/drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh_rdac.c
index 88c8e36b221e..ed02e1737bd7 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh_rdac.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh_rdac.c
@@ -455,9 +455,9 @@ static int initialize_controller(struct scsi_device *sdev,
 		else {
 			h->sdev = sdev;
 			list_add_rcu(&h->node, &h->ctlr->dh_list);
+			err = SCSI_DH_OK;
 		}
 		spin_unlock(&list_lock);
-		err = SCSI_DH_OK;
 	}
 	return err;
 }
-- 
2.47.3


             reply	other threads:[~2026-07-13  6:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-07-13  6:36 Aleksey Shishkin [this message]
2026-07-13  6:53 ` [PATCH] scsi: scsi_dh_rdac: fix NULL pointer dereference in error handling sashiko-bot

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