From: okaya@codeaurora.org
To: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
Cc: Anton Vasilyev <vasilyev@ispras.ru>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>,
Gaurav Pathak <gauravpathak129@gmail.com>,
Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>,
devel@driverdev.osuosl.org,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
ldv-project@linuxtesting.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: rts5208: add check on NULL before dereference
Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2018 18:22:56 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6358f10997e30da2fe91e75525d14131@codeaurora.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHp75VdkDCCJCqBTGsPCzaCKfT_bqYNGDQekvr56U3fhR+uthA@mail.gmail.com>
On 2018-06-09 15:34, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 9, 2018 at 7:58 PM, <okaya@codeaurora.org> wrote:
>> On 2018-06-09 12:38, Anton Vasilyev wrote:
>>>
>>> If rtsx_probe fails to allocate dev->chip, then NULL pointer
>>> dereference occurs at rtsx_release_resources().
>>>
>>> Patch adds checks chip on NULL before its dereference at
>>> rtsx_release_resources and passing with dereference inside
>>> rtsx_release_chip.
>>>
>>> Found by Linux Driver Verification project (linuxtesting.org).
>
>> I think you should bail out if dev->chip is null rather than adding
>> conditiinals.
>
> I'm wondering if it's false positive. At which circumstances that may
> happen?
Only if dev->chip allocation fails. Code tries to cleanup prior
resources by calling clean_everything() function which ends up in
rtsx_release_resources()
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-06-09 22:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-06-09 16:38 [PATCH] staging: rts5208: add check on NULL before dereference Anton Vasilyev
2018-06-09 16:58 ` okaya
2018-06-09 19:34 ` Andy Shevchenko
2018-06-09 22:22 ` okaya [this message]
2018-06-12 13:06 ` Dan Carpenter
2018-06-13 16:55 ` [PATCH v2] " Anton Vasilyev
2018-06-13 17:00 ` Andy Shevchenko
2018-06-13 17:34 ` [PATCH v3] staging: rts5208: add error handling into rtsx_probe Anton Vasilyev
[not found] ` <20180613173128.32384-1-vasilyev@ispras.ru>
2018-06-19 7:42 ` your mail Dan Carpenter
2018-06-19 15:25 ` [PATCH v4] staging: rts5208: add error handling into rtsx_probe Anton Vasilyev
2018-06-19 17:13 ` Andy Shevchenko
2018-08-01 11:55 ` [PATCH v5] " Anton Vasilyev
2018-08-01 12:18 ` Andy Shevchenko
2018-08-01 14:08 ` Anton Vasilyev
2018-08-01 14:52 ` Dan Carpenter
2018-08-01 15:37 ` Andy Shevchenko
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