2021-04-07 09:31:37

by Ricardo Ribalda

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Subject: [PATCH RESEND] lib/scatterlist: Fix NULL pointer deference

When sg_alloc_table_from_pages is called with n_pages = 0, we write in a
non-allocated page. Fix it by checking early the error condition.

[ 7.666801] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000010
[ 7.667487] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
[ 7.667970] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
[ 7.668448] PGD 0 P4D 0
[ 7.668690] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI
[ 7.669037] CPU: 0 PID: 184 Comm: modprobe Not tainted 5.11.0+ #2
[ 7.669606] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.14.0-2 04/01/2014
[ 7.670378] RIP: 0010:__sg_alloc_table_from_pages+0x2c5/0x4a0
[ 7.670924] Code: c9 01 48 c7 40 08 00 00 00 00 48 89 08 8b 47 0c 41 8d 44 00 ff 89 47 0c 48 81 fa 00 f0 ff ff 0f 87 d4 01 00 00 49 8b 16 89 d8 <4a> 8b 74 fd 00 4c 89 d1 44 29 f8 c1 e0 0c 44 29 d8 4c 39 d0 48 0f
[ 7.672643] RSP: 0018:ffffba1e8028fb30 EFLAGS: 00010287
[ 7.673133] RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: 0000000000000001 RCX: 0000000000000002
[ 7.673791] RDX: 0000000000000002 RSI: ffffffffada6d0ba RDI: ffff9afe01fff820
[ 7.674448] RBP: 0000000000000010 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000001
[ 7.675100] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000
[ 7.675754] R13: 00000000fffff000 R14: ffff9afe01fff800 R15: 0000000000000000
[ 7.676409] FS: 00007fb0f448f540(0000) GS:ffff9afe07a00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[ 7.677151] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[ 7.677681] CR2: 0000000000000010 CR3: 0000000002184001 CR4: 0000000000370ef0
[ 7.678342] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
[ 7.679019] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
[ 7.680349] Call Trace:
[ 7.680605] ? device_add+0x146/0x810
[ 7.681021] sg_alloc_table_from_pages+0x11/0x30
[ 7.681511] vb2_dma_sg_alloc+0x162/0x280 [videobuf2_dma_sg]

Cc: [email protected]
Fixes: efc42bc98058 ("scatterlist: add sg_alloc_table_from_pages function")
Signed-off-by: Ricardo Ribalda <[email protected]>
---
lib/scatterlist.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/scatterlist.c b/lib/scatterlist.c
index a59778946404..1e83b6a3d930 100644
--- a/lib/scatterlist.c
+++ b/lib/scatterlist.c
@@ -435,6 +435,9 @@ struct scatterlist *__sg_alloc_table_from_pages(struct sg_table *sgt,
unsigned int added_nents = 0;
struct scatterlist *s = prv;

+ if (n_pages == 0)
+ return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
+
/*
* The algorithm below requires max_segment to be aligned to PAGE_SIZE
* otherwise it can overshoot.
--
2.31.0.208.g409f899ff0-goog


2021-04-07 19:21:01

by Christoph Hellwig

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Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND] lib/scatterlist: Fix NULL pointer deference

Looks good,

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>