Re: [PATCH] thermal: Fix a NULL pointer dereference

From: David Collins
Date: Fri Sep 03 2021 - 21:08:06 EST


On 9/3/21 5:34 PM, Subbaraman Narayanamurthy wrote:
of_parse_thermal_zones() parses the thermal-zones node and registers a
thermal_zone device for each subnode. However, if a thermal zone is
consuming a thermal sensor and that thermal sensor device hasn't probed
yet, an attempt to set trip_point_*_temp for that thermal zone device
can cause a NULL pointer dereference. Fix it.

console:/sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone87 # echo 120000 > trip_point_0_temp
...
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000020
...
Call trace:
of_thermal_set_trip_temp+0x40/0xc4
trip_point_temp_store+0xc0/0x1dc
dev_attr_store+0x38/0x88
sysfs_kf_write+0x64/0xc0
kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x108/0x1d0
vfs_write+0x2f4/0x368
ksys_write+0x7c/0xec
__arm64_sys_write+0x20/0x30
el0_svc_common.llvm.7279915941325364641+0xbc/0x1bc
do_el0_svc+0x28/0xa0
el0_svc+0x14/0x24
el0_sync_handler+0x88/0xec
el0_sync+0x1c0/0x200

Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Suggested-by: David Collins <quic_collinsd@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Subbaraman Narayanamurthy <quic_subbaram@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/thermal/thermal_of.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/thermal/thermal_of.c b/drivers/thermal/thermal_of.c
index 6379f26..ba53252 100644
--- a/drivers/thermal/thermal_of.c
+++ b/drivers/thermal/thermal_of.c
@@ -301,7 +301,7 @@ static int of_thermal_set_trip_temp(struct thermal_zone_device *tz, int trip,
if (trip >= data->ntrips || trip < 0)
return -EDOM;
- if (data->ops->set_trip_temp) {
+ if (data->ops && data->ops->set_trip_temp) {
int ret;
ret = data->ops->set_trip_temp(data->sensor_data, trip, temp);


It looks like the same kind of data->ops null pointer dereference issue is present in three other functions within this file: of_thermal_get_temp(), of_thermal_set_emul_temp(), and of_thermal_get_trend(). Should those be fixed along with of_thermal_set_trip_temp() in a single patch?

Thanks,
David