This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled media: af9005: Fix null-ptr-deref in af9005_i2c_xfer to the 6.1-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-af9005-fix-null-ptr-deref-in-af9005_i2c_xfer.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 657a48183816623a161833003ee676c49902959b Author: Zhang Shurong <zhang_shurong@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat Jul 8 23:24:11 2023 +0800 media: af9005: Fix null-ptr-deref in af9005_i2c_xfer [ Upstream commit f4ee84f27625ce1fdf41e8483fa0561a1b837d10 ] In af9005_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 af9005_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()") Signed-off-by: Zhang Shurong <zhang_shurong@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/af9005.c b/drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/af9005.c index 0827bf3d4e8c7..13604e6acdb83 100644 --- a/drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/af9005.c +++ b/drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/af9005.c @@ -422,6 +422,10 @@ static int af9005_i2c_xfer(struct i2c_adapter *adap, struct i2c_msg msg[], if (ret == 0) ret = 2; } else { + if (msg[0].len < 2) { + ret = -EOPNOTSUPP; + goto unlock; + } /* write one or more registers */ reg = msg[0].buf[0]; addr = msg[0].addr; @@ -431,6 +435,7 @@ static int af9005_i2c_xfer(struct i2c_adapter *adap, struct i2c_msg msg[], ret = 1; } +unlock: mutex_unlock(&d->i2c_mutex); return ret; }