Re: [PATCH] tee: shm: Potential NULL dereference calling tee_shm_register()

From: Jens Wiklander
Date: Tue Jan 09 2018 - 08:35:09 EST


On Sat, Jan 6, 2018 at 10:22 AM, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> get_user_pages_fast() can return zero in certain error paths. We should
> handle that or else it means we accidentally return ERR_PTR(0) which is
> NULL instead of an error pointer. The callers are not expecting that
> and will crash with a NULL dereference.
>
> Fixes: 033ddf12bcf5 ("tee: add register user memory")
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> diff --git a/drivers/tee/tee_shm.c b/drivers/tee/tee_shm.c
> index 04e1b8b37046..cdeb4156acda 100644
> --- a/drivers/tee/tee_shm.c
> +++ b/drivers/tee/tee_shm.c
> @@ -283,7 +283,7 @@ struct tee_shm *tee_shm_register(struct tee_context *ctx, unsigned long addr,
> if (rc > 0)
> shm->num_pages = rc;
> if (rc != num_pages) {
> - if (rc > 0)
> + if (rc >= 0)
> rc = -ENOMEM;
> ret = ERR_PTR(rc);
> goto err;

Looks good. Thanks.

/Jens