On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 12:45:25AM +0800, Zhou Qingyang wrote:
> In __pata_platform_probe(), devm_kzalloc() is assigned to ap->ops and
> there is a dereference of it right after that, which could introduce a
> NULL pointer dereference bug.
>
> Fix this by adding a NULL check of ap->ops.
>
> 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: f3d5e4f18dba ("ata: pata_of_platform: Allow to use 16-bit wide data transfer")
> Signed-off-by: Zhou Qingyang <zhou1615@xxxxxxx>
> ---
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> 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/ata/pata_platform.c | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/ata/pata_platform.c b/drivers/ata/pata_platform.c
> index 028329428b75..021ef9cbcbc1 100644
> --- a/drivers/ata/pata_platform.c
> +++ b/drivers/ata/pata_platform.c
> @@ -128,6 +128,8 @@ int __pata_platform_probe(struct device *dev, struct resource *io_res,
> ap = host->ports[0];
>
> ap->ops = devm_kzalloc(dev, sizeof(*ap->ops), GFP_KERNEL);
> + if (ap->ops)
> + return -ENOMEM;
This change seems to leak memory. Damien, please revert it.
thanks,
greg k-h
