[ 32/83] pstore: Fix NULL pointer dereference in console writes

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Thu Nov 22 2012 - 16:28:04 EST


3.6-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

commit 70a6f46d7b0ec03653b9ab3f8063a9717a4a53ef upstream.

Passing a NULL id causes a NULL pointer deference in writers such as
erst_writer and efi_pstore_write because they expect to update this id.
Pass a dummy id instead.

This avoids a cascade of oopses caused when the initial
pstore_console_write passes a null which in turn causes writes to the
console causing further oopses in subsequent pstore_console_write calls.

Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
fs/pstore/platform.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/fs/pstore/platform.c
+++ b/fs/pstore/platform.c
@@ -161,12 +161,13 @@ static void pstore_console_write(struct

while (s < e) {
unsigned long flags;
+ u64 id;

if (c > psinfo->bufsize)
c = psinfo->bufsize;
spin_lock_irqsave(&psinfo->buf_lock, flags);
memcpy(psinfo->buf, s, c);
- psinfo->write(PSTORE_TYPE_CONSOLE, 0, NULL, 0, c, psinfo);
+ psinfo->write(PSTORE_TYPE_CONSOLE, 0, &id, 0, c, psinfo);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&psinfo->buf_lock, flags);
s += c;
c = e - s;


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