This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled media: dvb-usb-v2: ec168: fix null-ptr-deref in ec168_i2c_xfer() 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-dvb-usb-v2-ec168-fix-null-ptr-deref-in-ec168_i.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 3572e849e33b95364f340eb86c29e0666ad57393 Author: Wei Chen <harperchen1110@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon Mar 13 08:58:53 2023 +0000 media: dvb-usb-v2: ec168: fix null-ptr-deref in ec168_i2c_xfer() [ Upstream commit a6dcefcc08eca1bf4e3d213c97c3cfb75f377935 ] In ec168_i2c_xfer, msg is controlled by user. When msg[i].buf is null and msg[i].len is zero, former checks on msg[i].buf would be passed. If accessing msg[i].buf[0] without sanity check, null pointer deref would happen. We add check on msg[i].len to prevent crash. Similar commit: commit 0ed554fd769a ("media: dvb-usb: az6027: fix null-ptr-deref in az6027_i2c_xfer()") Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-media/20230313085853.3252349-1-harperchen1110@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Wei Chen <harperchen1110@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb-v2/ec168.c b/drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb-v2/ec168.c index 7ed0ab9e429b1..0e4773fc025c9 100644 --- a/drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb-v2/ec168.c +++ b/drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb-v2/ec168.c @@ -115,6 +115,10 @@ static int ec168_i2c_xfer(struct i2c_adapter *adap, struct i2c_msg msg[], while (i < num) { if (num > i + 1 && (msg[i+1].flags & I2C_M_RD)) { if (msg[i].addr == ec168_ec100_config.demod_address) { + if (msg[i].len < 1) { + i = -EOPNOTSUPP; + break; + } req.cmd = READ_DEMOD; req.value = 0; req.index = 0xff00 + msg[i].buf[0]; /* reg */ @@ -131,6 +135,10 @@ static int ec168_i2c_xfer(struct i2c_adapter *adap, struct i2c_msg msg[], } } else { if (msg[i].addr == ec168_ec100_config.demod_address) { + if (msg[i].len < 1) { + i = -EOPNOTSUPP; + break; + } req.cmd = WRITE_DEMOD; req.value = msg[i].buf[1]; /* val */ req.index = 0xff00 + msg[i].buf[0]; /* reg */ @@ -139,6 +147,10 @@ static int ec168_i2c_xfer(struct i2c_adapter *adap, struct i2c_msg msg[], ret = ec168_ctrl_msg(d, &req); i += 1; } else { + if (msg[i].len < 1) { + i = -EOPNOTSUPP; + break; + } req.cmd = WRITE_I2C; req.value = msg[i].buf[0]; /* val */ req.index = 0x0100 + msg[i].addr; /* I2C addr */