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([82.76.24.202]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 5b1f17b1804b1-437c7499942sm240936555e9.6.2025.01.21.07.06.28 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Tue, 21 Jan 2025 07:06:28 -0800 (PST) From: Eugen Hristev To: kees@kernel.org Cc: linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Eugen Hristev Subject: [PATCH] pstore/zone: fix return value for psz_init_zones Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2025 17:06:17 +0200 Message-ID: <20250121150617.608118-1-eugen.hristev@linaro.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.43.0 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" psz_init_zones is not supposed to return NULL. It returns an errno, and its caller always checks for an errno to look for a problem. If the caller receives a NULL as a return, this code will go further without any errors: cxt->kpszs =3D psz_init_zones(PSTORE_TYPE_DMESG, &off, info->total_size - off_size, info->kmsg_size, &cxt->kmsg_max_cnt); if (IS_ERR(cxt->kpszs)) { err =3D PTR_ERR(cxt->kpszs); cxt->kpszs =3D NULL; goto free_out; } Later, when dereferencing kpszs, a panic would occur. Thus, to avoid this possible crash, it's better to avoid returning NULL in psz_init_zones, and just return -EINVAL if the parameters received are wrong (in this case, a zero size request). Fixes: d26c3321fe18 ("pstore/zone: Introduce common layer to manage storage= zones") Signed-off-by: Eugen Hristev --- fs/pstore/zone.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/pstore/zone.c b/fs/pstore/zone.c index 5fa2fa2e7aa7..dbafc72a2f68 100644 --- a/fs/pstore/zone.c +++ b/fs/pstore/zone.c @@ -1204,7 +1204,7 @@ static struct pstore_zone **psz_init_zones(enum pstor= e_type_id type, =20 *cnt =3D 0; if (!total_size || !record_size) - return NULL; + return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL); =20 if (*off + total_size > info->total_size) { pr_err("no room for zones %s (0x%zx@0x%llx over 0x%lx)\n", --=20 2.43.0