Re: [PATCH] greybus: Fix deref of NULL in __gb_lights_flash_brightness_set

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On Fri, Mar 01, 2024 at 02:04:24PM -0500, Mikhail Lobanov wrote:
> Dereference of null pointer in the __gb_lights_flash_brightness_set function.
> Assigning the channel the result of executing the get_channel_from_mode function
> without checking for NULL may result in an error.

get_channel_from_mode() can only return NULL when light->channels_count
is zero.

Although get_channel_from_mode() seems buggy to me.  If it can't
find the correct mode, it just returns the last channel.  So potentially
it should be made to return NULL.

diff --git a/drivers/staging/greybus/light.c b/drivers/staging/greybus/light.c
index d62f97249aca..acd435f5d25d 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/greybus/light.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/greybus/light.c
@@ -95,15 +95,15 @@ static struct led_classdev *get_channel_cdev(struct gb_channel *channel)
 static struct gb_channel *get_channel_from_mode(struct gb_light *light,
 						u32 mode)
 {
-	struct gb_channel *channel = NULL;
+	struct gb_channel *channel;
 	int i;
 
 	for (i = 0; i < light->channels_count; i++) {
 		channel = &light->channels[i];
 		if (channel && channel->mode == mode)
-			break;
+			return channel;
 	}
-	return channel;
+	return NULL;
 }
 
 static int __gb_lights_flash_intensity_set(struct gb_channel *channel,




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