Re: KASAN: null-ptr-deref Write in simple_write_to_buffer

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>From 166fa14420aa17f9a693621ef76bd107e1cb5ce8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 7 May 2018 13:12:20 +0900
Subject: [PATCH] PM / hibernate: Fix oops at snapshot_write().

syzbot is reporting NULL pointer dereference at snapshot_write() [1].
This is because data->handle is zero-cleared by ioctl(SNAPSHOT_FREE).
Fix this by checking data_of(data->handle) != NULL before using it.

[1] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=828a3c71bd344a6de8b6a31233d51a72099f27fd

Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: syzbot <syzbot+ae590932da6e45d6564d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx>
---
 kernel/power/user.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/power/user.c b/kernel/power/user.c
index 75c959d..abd2255 100644
--- a/kernel/power/user.c
+++ b/kernel/power/user.c
@@ -186,6 +186,11 @@ static ssize_t snapshot_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *buf,
 		res = PAGE_SIZE - pg_offp;
 	}
 
+	if (!data_of(data->handle)) {
+		res = -EINVAL;
+		goto unlock;
+	}
+
 	res = simple_write_to_buffer(data_of(data->handle), res, &pg_offp,
 			buf, count);
 	if (res > 0)
-- 
1.8.3.1




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