From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Soenke Huster <soenke.huster@eknoes.de>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] driver core: fix null pointer deref in device_find_child
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2022 16:38:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YemB2pdWSey1mA52@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220120150246.6216-1-soenke.huster@eknoes.de>
On Thu, Jan 20, 2022 at 04:02:46PM +0100, Soenke Huster wrote:
> Similar to device_for_each_child, device_find_child should not ooops
> if parent->p is NULL. While fuzzing the Bluetooth subsystem, I got a null
> pointer dereference in next_device, which is prevented by this change.
>
> Buglink: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=215497
> Signed-off-by: Soenke Huster <soenke.huster@eknoes.de>
> ---
> I found this while fuzzing the bluetooth subsystem and reported this bug
> in bugzilla. As I feel more like a kernelnewbie, I am not sure whether
> this needs to be patched in driver core, or is just an issue of the
> bluetooth subsystem itself. If the latter is the case: sorry for the
> spam!
bluetooth should be fixed, this is an indication that something is using
a stale pointer and this would be the least of the problems here.
thanks,
greg k-h
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2022-01-20 15:02 [PATCH] driver core: fix null pointer deref in device_find_child Soenke Huster
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