This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled tty: vcc: Add check for kstrdup() in vcc_probe() 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: tty-vcc-add-check-for-kstrdup-in-vcc_probe.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 996fdf286cfb8e10bd09902ba85764b3eabe7dd6 Author: Yi Yang <yiyang13@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon Sep 4 11:52:20 2023 +0800 tty: vcc: Add check for kstrdup() in vcc_probe() [ Upstream commit d81ffb87aaa75f842cd7aa57091810353755b3e6 ] Add check for the return value of kstrdup() and return the error, if it fails in order to avoid NULL pointer dereference. Signed-off-by: Yi Yang <yiyang13@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230904035220.48164-1-yiyang13@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/tty/vcc.c b/drivers/tty/vcc.c index 34ba6e54789a7..b8b832c75b856 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/vcc.c +++ b/drivers/tty/vcc.c @@ -579,18 +579,22 @@ static int vcc_probe(struct vio_dev *vdev, const struct vio_device_id *id) return -ENOMEM; name = kstrdup(dev_name(&vdev->dev), GFP_KERNEL); + if (!name) { + rv = -ENOMEM; + goto free_port; + } rv = vio_driver_init(&port->vio, vdev, VDEV_CONSOLE_CON, vcc_versions, ARRAY_SIZE(vcc_versions), NULL, name); if (rv) - goto free_port; + goto free_name; port->vio.debug = vcc_dbg_vio; vcc_ldc_cfg.debug = vcc_dbg_ldc; rv = vio_ldc_alloc(&port->vio, &vcc_ldc_cfg, port); if (rv) - goto free_port; + goto free_name; spin_lock_init(&port->lock); @@ -624,6 +628,11 @@ static int vcc_probe(struct vio_dev *vdev, const struct vio_device_id *id) goto unreg_tty; } port->domain = kstrdup(domain, GFP_KERNEL); + if (!port->domain) { + rv = -ENOMEM; + goto unreg_tty; + } + mdesc_release(hp); @@ -653,8 +662,9 @@ static int vcc_probe(struct vio_dev *vdev, const struct vio_device_id *id) vcc_table_remove(port->index); free_ldc: vio_ldc_free(&port->vio); -free_port: +free_name: kfree(name); +free_port: kfree(port); return rv;