From: Jiasheng Jiang <jiasheng@iscas.ac.cn> stable inclusion from stable-v5.10.201 commit bb166bdae1a7d7db30e9be7e6ccaba606debc05f category: bugfix bugzilla: https://gitee.com/openeuler/kernel/issues/I9DFT4 CVE: CVE-2023-52869 Reference: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?id=... -------------------------------- [ Upstream commit a19d48f7c5d57c0f0405a7d4334d1d38fe9d3c1c ] Add check for the return value of kstrdup() and return the error if it fails in order to avoid NULL pointer dereference. Fixes: 563ca40ddf40 ("pstore/platform: Switch pstore_info::name to const") Signed-off-by: Jiasheng Jiang <jiasheng@iscas.ac.cn> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230623022706.32125-1-jiasheng@iscas.ac.cn Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Wei Li <liwei391@huawei.com> --- fs/pstore/platform.c | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/pstore/platform.c b/fs/pstore/platform.c index ce03c3dbb5c3..d59f13b1fb96 100644 --- a/fs/pstore/platform.c +++ b/fs/pstore/platform.c @@ -558,6 +558,8 @@ static int pstore_write_user_compat(struct pstore_record *record, */ int pstore_register(struct pstore_info *psi) { + char *new_backend; + if (backend && strcmp(backend, psi->name)) { pr_warn("ignoring unexpected backend '%s'\n", psi->name); return -EPERM; @@ -577,11 +579,16 @@ int pstore_register(struct pstore_info *psi) return -EINVAL; } + new_backend = kstrdup(psi->name, GFP_KERNEL); + if (!new_backend) + return -ENOMEM; + mutex_lock(&psinfo_lock); if (psinfo) { pr_warn("backend '%s' already loaded: ignoring '%s'\n", psinfo->name, psi->name); mutex_unlock(&psinfo_lock); + kfree(new_backend); return -EBUSY; } @@ -614,7 +621,7 @@ int pstore_register(struct pstore_info *psi) * Update the module parameter backend, so it is visible * through /sys/module/pstore/parameters/backend */ - backend = kstrdup(psi->name, GFP_KERNEL); + backend = new_backend; pr_info("Registered %s as persistent store backend\n", psi->name); -- 2.25.1