I got a null-ptr-deref report when doing fault injection test: BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000 #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page PGD 0 P4D 0 Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN PTI CPU: 2 PID: 925 Comm: 29 Not tainted 5.15.0-rc3-00111-gf5dad42ed4fe-dirty #487 5b4d17fc3275713934c1a9cb26349fbabf82adbf Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.13.0-1ubuntu1.1 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:strcmp+0xc/0x20 Code: 17 48 83 c6 01 44 0f b6 46 ff 48 83 c1 01 44 88 41 ff 45 84 c0 75 e5 c3 c6 01 00 c3 66 90 31 c0 eb 08 48 83 c0 01 84 d2 74 0f <0f> b6 14 07 3a 14 06 74 ef 19 c0 83 c8 01 c3 31 c0 c3 66 90 48 85 RSP: 0018:ffffc900025af368 EFLAGS: 00010246 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 1ffff920004b5e6f RCX: 0000000000000000 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff8ebcf680 RDI: 0000000000000000 RBP: ffff888014746000 R08: ffffed102097e3fa R09: ffffed102097e3fa R10: ffff888104bf1fcb R11: ffffed102097e3f9 R12: ffff888014746040 R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff8880147468c0 FS: 00007f783e6d5500(0000) GS:ffff888104a00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 0000000008cee002 CR4: 0000000000770ee0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 PKRU: 55555554 Call Trace: __devm_rtc_register_device.cold.7+0x16a/0x2df ? rtc_suspend+0x330/0x330 ? irqentry_exit+0x32/0x80 ? __sanitizer_cov_trace_pc+0x1d/0x50 ? irqentry_exit+0x32/0x80 ? trace_hardirqs_on+0x63/0x2d0 ? rtc_ktime_to_tm+0x120/0x120 ? tracer_hardirqs_on+0x36/0x530 ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x4b/0x5d ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x54/0x5d ? __sanitizer_cov_trace_pc+0x1d/0x50 ? write_comp_data+0x2a/0x90 ? __sanitizer_cov_trace_pc+0x1d/0x50 rv3029_probe+0x4b1/0x770 [rtc_rv3029c2] ? rv3029_hwmon_show_update_interval+0x160/0x160 [rtc_rv3029c2] ? write_comp_data+0x2a/0x90 ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x4b/0x5d ? tracer_hardirqs_on+0x36/0x530 ? rv3029_nvram_write+0x40/0x40 [rtc_rv3029c2] ? rv3029_set_time+0x350/0x350 [rtc_rv3029c2] ? __sanitizer_cov_trace_pc+0x1d/0x50 rv3029_i2c_probe+0x141/0x180 [rtc_rv3029c2] ? rv3029_probe+0x770/0x770 [rtc_rv3029c2] i2c_device_probe+0xa07/0xbb0 ? i2c_device_match+0x110/0x110 really_probe+0x285/0xc30 If dev_set_name() fails, dev_name() is null, it causes null-ptr-deref, we need check the return value of dev_set_name(). Reported-by: Hulk Robot <hulkci@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/rtc/class.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/rtc/class.c b/drivers/rtc/class.c index f77bc089eb6b..1f18c39a4b82 100644 --- a/drivers/rtc/class.c +++ b/drivers/rtc/class.c @@ -363,7 +363,9 @@ struct rtc_device *devm_rtc_allocate_device(struct device *dev) rtc->id = id; rtc->dev.parent = dev; - dev_set_name(&rtc->dev, "rtc%d", id); + err = dev_set_name(&rtc->dev, "rtc%d", id); + if (err) + return ERR_PTR(err); err = devm_add_action_or_reset(dev, devm_rtc_release_device, rtc); if (err) -- 2.25.1