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From: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
To: sohu0106 <sohu0106@126.com>
Cc: schwidefsky@de.ibm.com, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org,
	torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: drivers/s390/char/keyboard.c NULL pointer reference
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2017 11:26:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170804092608.GB3278@osiris> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3b10f99f.aa01.15da8632dec.Coremail.sohu0106@126.com>

On Thu, Aug 03, 2017 at 09:57:38PM +0800, sohu0106 wrote:
> 
> 
> Local users able to send the NULL arg argument to kbd_ioctl(), which could cause kernel crash
> 
> 
> 
> 
> diff --git a/keyboard.c 
> b/keyboard.c
> index ba0e4f9..3ec16b1 100644
> --- a/keyboard.c
> +++ b/keyboard.c
> @@ -456,6 +456,8 @@ int kbd_ioctl(struct kbd_data *kbd, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
>         int perm;
>  
>         argp = (void __user *)arg;
> +       if( !argp )
> +               return -EFAULT;

This doesn't make sense as well. All uaccess functions are able to handle
NULL pointers within user space.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-08-04  9:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-03 13:57 drivers/s390/char/keyboard.c NULL pointer reference sohu0106
2017-08-04  9:26 ` Heiko Carstens [this message]
2017-08-05  1:44   ` sohu0106
2017-08-05  7:50     ` Heiko Carstens

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