Re: [PATCH] spi: bitbang: Fix NULL pointer dereference in spi_unregister_master

[Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 9:57 AM YueHaibing <yuehaibing@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> If spi_register_master fails in spi_bitbang_start
> because device_add failure, We should return the
> error code other than 0, otherwise calling
> spi_bitbang_stop may trigger NULL pointer dereference
> like this:
>
> BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in __list_del_entry_valid+0x45/0xd0
> Read of size 8 at addr 0000000000000000 by task syz-executor.0/3661

[...]

> Reported-by: Hulk Robot <hulkci@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Fixes: 702a4879ec33 ("spi: bitbang: Let spi_bitbang_start() take a reference to master")
> Signed-off-by: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx>

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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