On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 8:24 AM Ardelean, Alexandru
<alexandru.Ardelean@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Wednesday, November 25, 2020 4:37 PM
> > To: Ardelean, Alexandru <alexandru.Ardelean@xxxxxxxxxx>; Jonathan
> > Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Subject: re: iio: adc: ad7298: rework external ref setup & remove platform data
> >
> > [External]
> >
> > Hi there,
> >
> > Static analysis with Coverity on Linux-next today found a potential null pointer
> > dereference. I believe it was triggered by the following commit:
> >
> > commit 28963f2f6b46d75bda8fed15bd5ce9923427a40d
> > Author: Alexandru Ardelean <alexandru.ardelean@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Thu Oct 1 17:10:48 2020 +0300
> >
> > iio: adc: ad7298: rework external ref setup & remove platform data
> >
> > ..however the issue may have existed before now and this change triggered the
> > bug being found.
> >
> > The analysis is as follows:
> >
> >
> > 282 static int ad7298_probe(struct spi_device *spi)
> > 283 {
> > 284 struct ad7298_state *st;
> > 285 struct iio_dev *indio_dev;
> > 286 int ret;
> > 287
> > 288 indio_dev = devm_iio_device_alloc(&spi->dev, sizeof(*st));
> >
> > 1. Condition indio_dev == NULL, taking false branch.
> >
> > 289 if (indio_dev == NULL)
> > 290 return -ENOMEM;
> > 291
> > 292 st = iio_priv(indio_dev);
> > 293
> > 294 st->reg = devm_regulator_get_optional(&spi->dev, "vref");
> >
> > 2. Condition !IS_ERR(st->reg), taking false branch.
> >
> > 295 if (!IS_ERR(st->reg)) {
> > 296 st->ext_ref = AD7298_EXTREF;
> > 297 } else {
> > 298 ret = PTR_ERR(st->reg);
> >
> > 3. Condition ret != -19, taking false branch.
> >
> > 299 if (ret != -ENODEV)
> > 300 return ret;
> > 301
> > 302 st->reg = NULL;
> > 303 }
> > 304
> >
> > 4. Condition st->reg, taking false branch.
> > 5. var_compare_op: Comparing st->reg to null implies that st->reg might be
> > null.
> >
> > 305 if (st->reg) {
> > 306 ret = regulator_enable(st->reg);
> > 307 if (ret)
> > 308 return ret;
> > 309 }
> > 310
> > 311 spi_set_drvdata(spi, indio_dev);
> > 312
> > 313 st->spi = spi;
> > 314
> > 315 indio_dev->name = spi_get_device_id(spi)->name;
> > 316 indio_dev->modes = INDIO_DIRECT_MODE;
> > 317 indio_dev->channels = ad7298_channels;
> > 318 indio_dev->num_channels = ARRAY_SIZE(ad7298_channels);
> > 319 indio_dev->info = &ad7298_info;
> > 320
> > 321 /* Setup default message */
> > 322
> > 323 st->scan_single_xfer[0].tx_buf = &st->tx_buf[0];
> > 324 st->scan_single_xfer[0].len = 2;
> > 325 st->scan_single_xfer[0].cs_change = 1;
> > 326 st->scan_single_xfer[1].tx_buf = &st->tx_buf[1];
> > 327 st->scan_single_xfer[1].len = 2;
> > 328 st->scan_single_xfer[1].cs_change = 1;
> > 329 st->scan_single_xfer[2].rx_buf = &st->rx_buf[0];
> > 330 st->scan_single_xfer[2].len = 2;
> > 331
> > 332 spi_message_init(&st->scan_single_msg);
> > 333 spi_message_add_tail(&st->scan_single_xfer[0],
> > &st->scan_single_msg);
> > 334 spi_message_add_tail(&st->scan_single_xfer[1],
> > &st->scan_single_msg);
> > 335 spi_message_add_tail(&st->scan_single_xfer[2],
> > &st->scan_single_msg);
> > 336
> > 337 ret = iio_triggered_buffer_setup(indio_dev, NULL,
> > 338 &ad7298_trigger_handler, NULL);
> >
> > 6. Condition ret, taking true branch.
> >
> > 339 if (ret)
> >
> > 7. Jumping to label error_disable_reg.
> >
> > 340 goto error_disable_reg;
> > 341
> > 342 ret = iio_device_register(indio_dev);
> > 343 if (ret)
> > 344 goto error_cleanup_ring;
> > 345
> > 346 return 0;
> > 347
> > 348 error_cleanup_ring:
> > 349 iio_triggered_buffer_cleanup(indio_dev);
> > 350 error_disable_reg:
> >
> > 8. Condition st->ext_ref, taking true branch.
> >
> > 351 if (st->ext_ref)
> >
> > Dereference after null check (FORWARD_NULL)
> > 9. var_deref_model: Passing null pointer st->reg to regulator_disable, which
> > dereferences it.
> >
> > 352 regulator_disable(st->reg);
> > 353
> > 354 return ret;
> > 355 }
> >
> >
> > My initial thought was to just add:
> >
> > if (st->ext_ref && st->reg)
> > regulator_disable(st_reg);
> >
> > ..however it may be just that the code in line 302 should be aborting earlier
> > when the st->reg is set to NULL.
I think a slightly better option would be to finalize the conversion
to devm_ functions here.
That way, we can cleanup/reduce some of the code.
I do remember seeing that 'st->ext_ref' is being checked for some
regulator_xxx() function calls, and that isn't pretty.
But 'st->ext_ref' is zero when 'st->reg' is NULL.
So, this is a bit of a false-positive (I think).
I'll do the cleanup/conversion and then this should go away of coverity's radar.
Thanks
Alex
> >
> > Colin
