Re: [PATCH] staging: fwserial: Fix potential NULL pointer dereferences

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Fri, May 21, 2021 at 02:43:39PM +0300, Evgeny Novikov wrote:
> If fwtty_install() will be invoked with such tty->index that will be
> not less than MAX_TOTAL_PORTS then fwtty_port_get() will return NULL and
> fwtty_install() will either assign it to tty->driver_data or dereference
> in fwtty_port_put() (if tty_standard_install() will fail). The similar
> situation is with fwloop_install(). The patch fixes both cases.

But how can those cases ever happen?

> Found by Linux Driver Verification project (linuxtesting.org).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Evgeny Novikov <novikov@ispras.ru>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/fwserial/fwserial.c | 6 ++++++
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/fwserial/fwserial.c b/drivers/staging/fwserial/fwserial.c
> index 1ee6382cafc4..d0810896511e 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/fwserial/fwserial.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/fwserial/fwserial.c
> @@ -1069,6 +1069,9 @@ static int fwtty_install(struct tty_driver *driver, struct tty_struct *tty)
>  	struct fwtty_port *port = fwtty_port_get(tty->index);
>  	int err;
>  
> +	if (!port)
> +		return -ENODEV;

there's already a valid tty pointer here, so the index can not be "too
big".

> +
>  	err = tty_standard_install(driver, tty);
>  	if (!err)
>  		tty->driver_data = port;
> @@ -1082,6 +1085,9 @@ static int fwloop_install(struct tty_driver *driver, struct tty_struct *tty)
>  	struct fwtty_port *port = fwtty_port_get(table_idx(tty->index));
>  	int err;
>  
> +	if (!port)
> +		return -ENODEV;
> +

Same here, how can this ever happen?

thanks,

greg k-h