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From:   Zhou Qingyang <zhou1615@umn.edu>
To:     zhou1615@umn.edu
Cc:     kjlu@umn.edu, "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>,
        Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>, Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@intel.com>,
        linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] ACPI / tables: Fix a NULL pointer dereference in acpi_table_initrd_scan()
Date:   Tue, 25 Jan 2022 01:02:37 +0800
Message-Id: <20220124170237.57718-1-zhou1615@umn.edu>
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In acpi_table_initrd_scan(), the return value of acpi_os_map_memory()
is assigned to table and there is a dereference of it after that.
acpi_os_map_memory() will return NULL on failure, which may lead to NULL
pointer dereference.

Fix this bug by adding a NULL check of table.

This bug was found by a static analyzer.

Builds with 'make allyesconfig' show no new warnings,
and our static analyzer no longer warns about this code.

Fixes: 5ae74f2cc2f1 ("ACPI / tables: Move table override mechanisms to tables.c")
Signed-off-by: Zhou Qingyang <zhou1615@umn.edu>
---
The analysis employs differential checking to identify inconsistent 
security operations (e.g., checks or kfrees) between two code paths 
and confirms that the inconsistent operations are not recovered in the
current function or the callers, so they constitute bugs. 

Note that, as a bug found by static analysis, it can be a false
positive or hard to trigger. Multiple researchers have cross-reviewed
the bug.

 drivers/acpi/tables.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/acpi/tables.c b/drivers/acpi/tables.c
index 8b10c192ed32..356e08c4015b 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/tables.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/tables.c
@@ -755,6 +755,9 @@ static void __init acpi_table_initrd_scan(void)
 	while (table_offset + ACPI_HEADER_SIZE <= all_tables_size) {
 		table = acpi_os_map_memory(acpi_tables_addr + table_offset,
 					   ACPI_HEADER_SIZE);
+		if (!table)
+			return;
+
 		if (table_offset + table->length > all_tables_size) {
 			acpi_os_unmap_memory(table, ACPI_HEADER_SIZE);
 			WARN_ON(1);
-- 
2.25.1