9 Aug 2012 15:55
[PATCH 03/13] ide: Potential null pointer dereference in ide_queue_pc_tail()
Marina Makienko <makienko <at> ispras.ru>
2012-08-09 13:55:20 GMT
2012-08-09 13:55:20 GMT
The function blk_get_request() can return NULL in some cases. There are
checks on it if function is called with argumetns one of which is
GFP_ATOMIC/GFP_NOIO/etc. If system couldn't find request
blk_get_request() return NULL.
But if there is function call with argument __GFP_WAIT
the system will wait until get request or the queue becomes
dead. If something kills the queue, blk_get_request()
return NULL and next operations will lead to errors.
Found by Linux Driver Verification project (linuxtesting.org).
Signed-off-by: Marina Makienko <makienko <at> ispras.ru>
---
drivers/ide/ide-atapi.c | 6 ++++++
1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/ide/ide-atapi.c b/drivers/ide/ide-atapi.c
index fac3d9d..8bf4109 100644
--- a/drivers/ide/ide-atapi.c
+++ b/drivers/ide/ide-atapi.c
<at> <at> -93,6 +93,12 <at> <at> int ide_queue_pc_tail(ide_drive_t *drive, struct gendisk *disk,
int error;
rq = blk_get_request(drive->queue, READ, __GFP_WAIT);
+
+ if (!rq) {
+ printk(KERN_ERR PFX"ide_queue_pc_tail: blk_get_request() failed. \n");
+ return 1;
+ }
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