[PATCH 5.17 003/140] ipmi:ipmi_ipmb: Fix null-ptr-deref in ipmi_unregister_smi()

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Tue May 10 2022 - 10:14:17 EST


From: Corey Minyard <cminyard@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit 9cc3aac42566a0021e0ab7c4e9b31667ad75b1e3 upstream.

KASAN report null-ptr-deref as follows:

KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000008-0x000000000000000f]
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.13.0-1ubuntu1.1 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:ipmi_unregister_smi+0x7d/0xd50 drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c:3680
Call Trace:
ipmi_ipmb_remove+0x138/0x1a0 drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_ipmb.c:443
ipmi_ipmb_probe+0x409/0xda1 drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_ipmb.c:548
i2c_device_probe+0x959/0xac0 drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c:563
really_probe+0x3f3/0xa70 drivers/base/dd.c:541

In ipmi_ipmb_probe(), 'iidev->intf' is not set before
ipmi_register_smi() success. And in the error handling case,
ipmi_ipmb_remove() is called to release resources, ipmi_unregister_smi()
is called without check 'iidev->intf', this will cause KASAN
null-ptr-deref issue.

General kernel style is to allow NULL to be passed into unregister
calls, so fix it that way. This allows a NULL check to be removed in
other code.

Fixes: 57c9e3c9a374 ("ipmi:ipmi_ipmb: Unregister the SMI on remove")
Reported-by: Hulk Robot <hulkci@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # v5.17+
Cc: Wei Yongjun <weiyongjun1@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c | 5 ++++-
drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c | 5 +----
2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c
+++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c
@@ -3677,8 +3677,11 @@ static void cleanup_smi_msgs(struct ipmi
void ipmi_unregister_smi(struct ipmi_smi *intf)
{
struct ipmi_smi_watcher *w;
- int intf_num = intf->intf_num, index;
+ int intf_num, index;

+ if (!intf)
+ return;
+ intf_num = intf->intf_num;
mutex_lock(&ipmi_interfaces_mutex);
intf->intf_num = -1;
intf->in_shutdown = true;
--- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
+++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
@@ -2220,10 +2220,7 @@ static void cleanup_one_si(struct smi_in
return;

list_del(&smi_info->link);
-
- if (smi_info->intf)
- ipmi_unregister_smi(smi_info->intf);
-
+ ipmi_unregister_smi(smi_info->intf);
kfree(smi_info);
}