This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled media: saa7146: hexium_gemini: Fix a NULL pointer dereference in hexium_attach() to the 5.10-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: media-saa7146-hexium_gemini-fix-a-null-pointer-deref.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit f2270e4f3ac7f706838bb31f76e230a007ae61f1 Author: Zhou Qingyang <zhou1615@xxxxxxx> Date: Fri Dec 3 16:40:30 2021 +0100 media: saa7146: hexium_gemini: Fix a NULL pointer dereference in hexium_attach() [ Upstream commit 3af86b046933ba513d08399dba0d4d8b50d607d0 ] In hexium_attach(dev, info), saa7146_vv_init() is called to allocate a new memory for dev->vv_data. saa7146_vv_release() will be called on failure of saa7146_register_device(). There is a dereference of dev->vv_data in saa7146_vv_release(), which could lead to a NULL pointer dereference on failure of saa7146_vv_init(). Fix this bug by adding a check of saa7146_vv_init(). This bug was found by a static analyzer. The analysis employs differential checking to identify inconsistent security operations (e.g., checks or kfrees) between two code paths and confirms that the inconsistent operations are not recovered in the current function or the callers, so they constitute bugs. Note that, as a bug found by static analysis, it can be a false positive or hard to trigger. Multiple researchers have cross-reviewed the bug. Builds with CONFIG_VIDEO_HEXIUM_GEMINI=m show no new warnings, and our static analyzer no longer warns about this code. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-media/20211203154030.111210-1-zhou1615@xxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Zhou Qingyang <zhou1615@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/media/common/saa7146/saa7146_fops.c b/drivers/media/common/saa7146/saa7146_fops.c index d6531874faa65..8047e305f3d01 100644 --- a/drivers/media/common/saa7146/saa7146_fops.c +++ b/drivers/media/common/saa7146/saa7146_fops.c @@ -523,7 +523,7 @@ int saa7146_vv_init(struct saa7146_dev* dev, struct saa7146_ext_vv *ext_vv) ERR("out of memory. aborting.\n"); kfree(vv); v4l2_ctrl_handler_free(hdl); - return -1; + return -ENOMEM; } saa7146_video_uops.init(dev,vv); diff --git a/drivers/media/pci/saa7146/hexium_gemini.c b/drivers/media/pci/saa7146/hexium_gemini.c index 2214c74bbbf15..3947701cd6c7e 100644 --- a/drivers/media/pci/saa7146/hexium_gemini.c +++ b/drivers/media/pci/saa7146/hexium_gemini.c @@ -284,7 +284,12 @@ static int hexium_attach(struct saa7146_dev *dev, struct saa7146_pci_extension_d hexium_set_input(hexium, 0); hexium->cur_input = 0; - saa7146_vv_init(dev, &vv_data); + ret = saa7146_vv_init(dev, &vv_data); + if (ret) { + i2c_del_adapter(&hexium->i2c_adapter); + kfree(hexium); + return ret; + } vv_data.vid_ops.vidioc_enum_input = vidioc_enum_input; vv_data.vid_ops.vidioc_g_input = vidioc_g_input;