When sg_alloc_table_from_pages is called with n_pages = 0, we write in a non-allocated page. Fix it by checking early the error condition. [ 7.666801] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000010 [ 7.667487] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode [ 7.667970] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page [ 7.668448] PGD 0 P4D 0 [ 7.668690] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI [ 7.669037] CPU: 0 PID: 184 Comm: modprobe Not tainted 5.11.0+ #2 [ 7.669606] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.14.0-2 04/01/2014 [ 7.670378] RIP: 0010:__sg_alloc_table_from_pages+0x2c5/0x4a0 [ 7.670924] Code: c9 01 48 c7 40 08 00 00 00 00 48 89 08 8b 47 0c 41 8d 44 00 ff 89 47 0c 48 81 fa 00 f0 ff ff 0f 87 d4 01 00 00 49 8b 16 89 d8 <4a> 8b 74 fd 00 4c 89 d1 44 29 f8 c1 e0 0c 44 29 d8 4c 39 d0 48 0f [ 7.672643] RSP: 0018:ffffba1e8028fb30 EFLAGS: 00010287 [ 7.673133] RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: 0000000000000001 RCX: 0000000000000002 [ 7.673791] RDX: 0000000000000002 RSI: ffffffffada6d0ba RDI: ffff9afe01fff820 [ 7.674448] RBP: 0000000000000010 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000001 [ 7.675100] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000 [ 7.675754] R13: 00000000fffff000 R14: ffff9afe01fff800 R15: 0000000000000000 [ 7.676409] FS: 00007fb0f448f540(0000) GS:ffff9afe07a00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 7.677151] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 7.677681] CR2: 0000000000000010 CR3: 0000000002184001 CR4: 0000000000370ef0 [ 7.678342] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 [ 7.679019] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 [ 7.680349] Call Trace: [ 7.680605] ? device_add+0x146/0x810 [ 7.681021] sg_alloc_table_from_pages+0x11/0x30 [ 7.681511] vb2_dma_sg_alloc+0x162/0x280 [videobuf2_dma_sg] Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fixes: efc42bc98058 ("scatterlist: add sg_alloc_table_from_pages function") Signed-off-by: Ricardo Ribalda <ribalda@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- lib/scatterlist.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/lib/scatterlist.c b/lib/scatterlist.c index a59778946404..1e83b6a3d930 100644 --- a/lib/scatterlist.c +++ b/lib/scatterlist.c @@ -435,6 +435,9 @@ struct scatterlist *__sg_alloc_table_from_pages(struct sg_table *sgt, unsigned int added_nents = 0; struct scatterlist *s = prv; + if (n_pages == 0) + return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL); + /* * The algorithm below requires max_segment to be aligned to PAGE_SIZE * otherwise it can overshoot. -- 2.31.0.208.g409f899ff0-goog