Re: [PATCH v2] drivers: thermal: Add NULL pointer check before using cooling device stats

From: manafm
Date: Fri Mar 05 2021 - 12:25:02 EST


On 2020-12-08 00:23, Manaf Meethalavalappu Pallikunhi wrote:

Gentle reminder..

There is a possible chance that some cooling device stats buffer
allocation fails due to very high cooling device max state value.
Later cooling device update sysfs can try to access stats data
for the same cooling device. It will lead to NULL pointer
dereference issue.

Add a NULL pointer check before accessing thermal cooling device
stats data. It fixes the following bug

[ 26.812833] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at
virtual address 0000000000000004
[ 27.122960] Call trace:
[ 27.122963] do_raw_spin_lock+0x18/0xe8
[ 27.122966] _raw_spin_lock+0x24/0x30
[ 27.128157] thermal_cooling_device_stats_update+0x24/0x98
[ 27.128162] cur_state_store+0x88/0xb8
[ 27.128166] dev_attr_store+0x40/0x58
[ 27.128169] sysfs_kf_write+0x50/0x68
[ 27.133358] kernfs_fop_write+0x12c/0x1c8
[ 27.133362] __vfs_write+0x54/0x160
[ 27.152297] vfs_write+0xcc/0x188
[ 27.157132] ksys_write+0x78/0x108
[ 27.162050] ksys_write+0xf8/0x108
[ 27.166968] __arm_smccc_hvc+0x158/0x4b0
[ 27.166973] __arm_smccc_hvc+0x9c/0x4b0
[ 27.186005] el0_svc+0x8/0xc

Signed-off-by: Manaf Meethalavalappu Pallikunhi <manafm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/thermal/thermal_sysfs.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/thermal/thermal_sysfs.c b/drivers/thermal/thermal_sysfs.c
index 473449b..10ca4f5 100644
--- a/drivers/thermal/thermal_sysfs.c
+++ b/drivers/thermal/thermal_sysfs.c
@@ -827,6 +827,9 @@ void thermal_cooling_device_stats_update(struct
thermal_cooling_device *cdev,
{
struct cooling_dev_stats *stats = cdev->stats;

+ if (!stats)
+ return;
+
spin_lock(&stats->lock);

if (stats->state == new_state)