From: Will McVicker <willmcvicker@google.com>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>,
Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: kernel-team@android.com, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
Will McVicker <willmcvicker@google.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v1] sysfs: fix sysfs_kf_seq_show null pointer dereference
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2022 17:24:01 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220614172401.3010509-1-willmcvicker@google.com> (raw)
When the kobj->ktype is null, sysfs_file_ops() returns a NULL pointer
for the sysfs_ops. When this happens, we hit a kernel panic in
sysfs_kf_seq_show() by dereferencing ops to check if ->show is NULL.
Based on commit 820879ee1865 ("sysfs: simplify sysfs_kf_seq_show"), it
sounds like we won't hit this often, but I have randomly hit this on my
Pixel 6 with 5.19-rc1. Refer to the crash stack below:
Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address ...
Internal error: Oops: 96000004 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
Hardware name: Oriole EVT 1.0 (DT)
pc : sysfs_kf_seq_show+0x3c/0x160
lr : kernfs_seq_show+0x54/0xa0
Call trace:
sysfs_kf_seq_show+0x3c/0x160
kernfs_seq_show+0x54/0xa0
seq_read_iter+0x17c/0x638
kernfs_fop_read_iter+0x70/0x1f4
vfs_read+0x240/0x36c
ksys_read+0x7c/0xf0
__arm64_sys_read+0x20/0x30
invoke_syscall+0x60/0x150
el0_svc_common+0xb8/0x100
do_el0_svc+0x30/0xd4
el0_svc+0x30/0xc0
el0t_64_sync_handler+0x88/0xf8
el0t_64_sync+0x1a0/0x1a4
Fixes: 820879ee1865 ("sysfs: simplify sysfs_kf_seq_show")
Signed-off-by: Will McVicker <willmcvicker@google.com>
---
fs/sysfs/file.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/fs/sysfs/file.c b/fs/sysfs/file.c
index a12ac0356c69..f09f86f10410 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/file.c
+++ b/fs/sysfs/file.c
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ static int sysfs_kf_seq_show(struct seq_file *sf, void *v)
ssize_t count;
char *buf;
- if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!ops->show))
+ if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!ops || !ops->show))
return -EINVAL;
/* acquire buffer and ensure that it's >= PAGE_SIZE and clear */
--
2.36.1.476.g0c4daa206d-goog
next reply other threads:[~2022-06-14 17:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-06-14 17:24 Will McVicker [this message]
2022-06-14 17:28 ` [PATCH v1] sysfs: fix sysfs_kf_seq_show null pointer dereference Greg Kroah-Hartman
[not found] ` <CABYd82ZwAnjnBbJh73op32tKkcR-X96qtnFFJKLifYvs2ei9eA@mail.gmail.com>
2022-06-14 18:44 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-06-14 18:45 ` William McVicker
2022-06-15 17:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-06-16 23:18 ` William McVicker
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