Re: Coverity: calibrate_8976(): Memory - illegal accesses

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On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 9:30 PM Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 5:08 PM Gustavo A. R. Silva
> <gustavo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > This one has been addressed already:
> >
> > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAK7fi1a8CiX=HVqhZSmQJdcjF1X_kdHFDwJhEpYJUcdPTcbMQA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> >
>
> Ah-ha, excellent. Colin, do you want me to CC you on these automatic
> reports too?
>

Hi Kees,

Is coverity being run just on linux-next or on mainline too? I've
noticed it found at least one error that has existed for a long-time
only when that code was moved around.

Regards,
Amit

> > On 10/28/19 18:03, coverity-bot wrote:
> > > Hello!
> > >
> > > This is an experimental automated report about issues detected by Coverity
> > > from a scan of next-20191025 as part of the linux-next weekly scan project:
> > > https://scan.coverity.com/projects/linux-next-weekly-scan
> > >
> > > You're getting this email because you were associated with the identified
> > > lines of code (noted below) that were touched by recent commits:
> > >
> > > 95ededc17e4e ("thermal: qcom: tsens-v1: Add support for MSM8956 and MSM8976")
> > >
> > > Coverity reported the following:
> > >
> > > *** CID 1487355:  Memory - illegal accesses  (USE_AFTER_FREE)
> > > /drivers/thermal/qcom/tsens-v1.c: 245 in calibrate_8976()
> > > 239           int mode = 0, tmp = 0;
> > > 240           u32 *qfprom_cdata;
> > > 241
> > > 242           qfprom_cdata = (u32 *)qfprom_read(priv->dev, "calib");
> > > 243           if (IS_ERR(qfprom_cdata)) {
> > > 244                   kfree(qfprom_cdata);
> > > vvv     CID 1487355:  Memory - illegal accesses  (USE_AFTER_FREE)
> > > vvv     Passing freed pointer "qfprom_cdata" as an argument to "PTR_ERR".
> > > 245                   return PTR_ERR(qfprom_cdata);
> > > 246           }
> > > 247
> > > 248           mode = (qfprom_cdata[4] & MSM8976_CAL_SEL_MASK);
> > > 249           dev_dbg(priv->dev, "calibration mode is %d\n", mode);
> > > 250
> > >
> > > If this is a false positive, please let us know so we can mark it as
> > > such, or teach the Coverity rules to be smarter. If not, please make
> > > sure fixes get into linux-next. :) For patches fixing this, please
> > > include:
> > >
> > > Reported-by: coverity-bot <keescook+coverity-bot@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1487355 ("Memory - illegal accesses")
> > > Fixes: 95ededc17e4e ("thermal: qcom: tsens-v1: Add support for MSM8956 and MSM8976")
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks for your attention!
> > >
>
>
>
> --
> Kees Cook



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