From: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@gmail.com>
To: arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com, franky.lin@broadcom.com,
hante.meuleman@broadcom.com, chi-hsien.lin@cypress.com,
wright.feng@cypress.com, kvalo@codeaurora.org,
davem@davemloft.net, pieter-paul.giesberts@broadcom.com,
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Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
brcm80211-dev-list.pdl@broadcom.com,
brcm80211-dev-list@cypress.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] brcm80211: Avoid possible null-pointer dereferences in wlc_phy_radio_init_2056()
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2019 17:56:52 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190729095652.1976-1-baijiaju1990@gmail.com> (raw)
In wlc_phy_radio_init_2056(), regs_SYN_2056_ptr, regs_TX_2056_ptr and
regs_RX_2056_ptr may be not assigned, and thus they are still NULL.
Then, they are used on lines 20042-20050:
wlc_phy_init_radio_regs(pi, regs_SYN_2056_ptr, (u16) RADIO_2056_SYN);
wlc_phy_init_radio_regs(pi, regs_TX_2056_ptr, (u16) RADIO_2056_TX0);
wlc_phy_init_radio_regs(pi, regs_TX_2056_ptr, (u16) RADIO_2056_TX1);
wlc_phy_init_radio_regs(pi, regs_RX_2056_ptr, (u16) RADIO_2056_RX0);
wlc_phy_init_radio_regs(pi, regs_RX_2056_ptr, (u16) RADIO_2056_RX1);
Thus, possible null-pointer dereferences may occur.
To avoid these bugs, when these variables are not assigned,
wlc_phy_radio_init_2056() directly returns.
Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@gmail.com>
---
drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmsmac/phy/phy_n.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmsmac/phy/phy_n.c b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmsmac/phy/phy_n.c
index 07f61d6155ea..0c57d48f47b1 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmsmac/phy/phy_n.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmsmac/phy/phy_n.c
@@ -20035,7 +20035,7 @@ static void wlc_phy_radio_init_2056(struct brcms_phy *pi)
break;
default:
- break;
+ return;
}
}
--
2.17.0
next reply other threads:[~2019-07-29 9:57 UTC|newest]
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2019-07-29 9:56 Jia-Ju Bai [this message]
2019-09-03 13:37 ` [PATCH] brcm80211: Avoid possible null-pointer dereferences in wlc_phy_radio_init_2056() Kalle Valo
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