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From: Filip Jensen <dev-Felipe.Jensen@duagon.com>
To: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, jirislaby@kernel.org,
	dev-jorge.sanjuangarcia@duagon.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-serial@vger.kernel.org,
	Filip Jensen <dev-Felipe.Jensen@duagon.com>,
	Jose Javier Rodriguez Barbarin
	<dev-josejavier.rodriguez@duagon.com>
Subject: [PATCH] 8250_men_mcb: port.dev unset can entail a null ptr deref
Date: Thu,  5 Mar 2026 17:28:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260305162815.41818-1-dev-Felipe.Jensen@duagon.com> (raw)

The dev field of the uart_port structure is needed in the later call to
serial8250_register_8250_port and unless the port is part of the initial
registered ports (cf. CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_RUNTIME_UARTS) with a dev
already set, it will make a null pointer deref in has_acpi_companion
and could also later at uart_add_one_port call:

Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range
RIP: 0010:serial8250_register_8250_port+0xd34/0x2030
drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c

A proposal for a security check against this missing field in any driver
for the 8250_core.c will be sent in another patch.

Reviewed-by: Jose Javier Rodriguez Barbarin <dev-josejavier.rodriguez@duagon.com>
Signed-off-by: Filip Jensen <dev-Felipe.Jensen@duagon.com>
---
 drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_men_mcb.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_men_mcb.c b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_men_mcb.c
index 6373234da03d..259516078793 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_men_mcb.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_men_mcb.c
@@ -214,6 +214,7 @@ static int serial_8250_men_mcb_probe(struct mcb_device *mdev,
 		uart.port.iotype = UPIO_MEM;
 		uart.port.uartclk = men_lookup_uartclk(mdev);
 		uart.port.irq = mcb_get_irq(mdev);
+		uart.port.dev = &mdev->dev;
 		uart.port.mapbase = (unsigned long) mem->start
 					    + data->offset[i];
 
-- 
2.34.1

             reply	other threads:[~2026-03-05 16:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-03-05 16:28 Filip Jensen [this message]
2026-03-12 13:42 ` [PATCH] 8250_men_mcb: port.dev unset can entail a null ptr deref Greg KH

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