This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled media: dvb-usb: digitv: fix null-ptr-deref in digitv_i2c_xfer() to the 4.19-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-digitv-fix-null-ptr-deref-in-digitv_i2.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.19 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 14b575e7d74964ffac207329416b79754451295d Author: Wei Chen <harperchen1110@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon Mar 13 09:50:08 2023 +0000 media: dvb-usb: digitv: fix null-ptr-deref in digitv_i2c_xfer() [ Upstream commit 9ded5bd2a49ce3015b7c936743eec0a0e6e11f0c ] In digitv_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. Malicious data finally reach digitv_i2c_xfer. If accessing msg[i].buf[0] without sanity check, null ptr 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/20230313095008.1039689-1-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/digitv.c b/drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/digitv.c index e66df4fd1a296..6e556a2a74103 100644 --- a/drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/digitv.c +++ b/drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/digitv.c @@ -66,6 +66,10 @@ static int digitv_i2c_xfer(struct i2c_adapter *adap,struct i2c_msg msg[],int num warn("more than 2 i2c messages at a time is not handled yet. TODO."); for (i = 0; i < num; i++) { + if (msg[i].len < 1) { + i = -EOPNOTSUPP; + break; + } /* write/read request */ if (i+1 < num && (msg[i+1].flags & I2C_M_RD)) { if (digitv_ctrl_msg(d, USB_READ_COFDM, msg[i].buf[0], NULL, 0,