This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled nfs: fix possible null-ptr-deref when parsing param to the 6.0-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: nfs-fix-possible-null-ptr-deref-when-parsing-param.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.0 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit a90182232e9778cb586a38d4d2b02be2c0722b4f Author: Hawkins Jiawei <yin31149@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon Oct 24 00:39:45 2022 +0800 nfs: fix possible null-ptr-deref when parsing param [ Upstream commit 5559405df652008e56eee88872126fe4c451da67 ] According to commit "vfs: parse: deal with zero length string value", kernel will set the param->string to null pointer in vfs_parse_fs_string() if fs string has zero length. Yet the problem is that, nfs_fs_context_parse_param() will dereferences the param->string, without checking whether it is a null pointer, which may trigger a null-ptr-deref bug. This patch solves it by adding sanity check on param->string in nfs_fs_context_parse_param(). Signed-off-by: Hawkins Jiawei <yin31149@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/fs/nfs/fs_context.c b/fs/nfs/fs_context.c index 4da701fd1424..0c330bc13ef2 100644 --- a/fs/nfs/fs_context.c +++ b/fs/nfs/fs_context.c @@ -684,6 +684,8 @@ static int nfs_fs_context_parse_param(struct fs_context *fc, return ret; break; case Opt_vers: + if (!param->string) + goto out_invalid_value; trace_nfs_mount_assign(param->key, param->string); ret = nfs_parse_version_string(fc, param->string); if (ret < 0) @@ -696,6 +698,8 @@ static int nfs_fs_context_parse_param(struct fs_context *fc, break; case Opt_proto: + if (!param->string) + goto out_invalid_value; trace_nfs_mount_assign(param->key, param->string); protofamily = AF_INET; switch (lookup_constant(nfs_xprt_protocol_tokens, param->string, -1)) { @@ -732,6 +736,8 @@ static int nfs_fs_context_parse_param(struct fs_context *fc, break; case Opt_mountproto: + if (!param->string) + goto out_invalid_value; trace_nfs_mount_assign(param->key, param->string); mountfamily = AF_INET; switch (lookup_constant(nfs_xprt_protocol_tokens, param->string, -1)) {