Re: [PATCH v2] clk: check ops pointer on clock register

From: Michael Turquette
Date: Tue Dec 19 2017 - 14:45:18 EST


Quoting Jerome Brunet (2017-12-19 00:33:29)
> Nothing really prevents a provider from (trying to) register a clock
> without providing the clock ops structure.
>
> We do check the individual fields before using them, but not the
> structure pointer itself. This may have the usual nasty consequences when
> the pointer is dereferenced, most likely when checking one the field
> during the initialization.
>
> This is fixed by returning an error on clock register if the ops pointer
> is NULL.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jerome Brunet <jbrunet@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Applied to clk-check-ops-ptr

Regards,
Mike

> ---
> Changes since v1:
> * Add WARN_ON so the error cannot be silently ignored
> * Remove fixes tag
>
> drivers/clk/clk.c | 7 +++++++
> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/clk/clk.c b/drivers/clk/clk.c
> index 8a1860a36c77..211f97e8dc65 100644
> --- a/drivers/clk/clk.c
> +++ b/drivers/clk/clk.c
> @@ -2683,7 +2683,13 @@ struct clk *clk_register(struct device *dev, struct clk_hw *hw)
> ret = -ENOMEM;
> goto fail_name;
> }
> +
> + if (WARN_ON(!hw->init->ops)) {
> + ret = -EINVAL;
> + goto fail_ops;
> + }
> core->ops = hw->init->ops;
> +
> if (dev && pm_runtime_enabled(dev))
> core->dev = dev;
> if (dev && dev->driver)
> @@ -2745,6 +2751,7 @@ struct clk *clk_register(struct device *dev, struct clk_hw *hw)
> kfree_const(core->parent_names[i]);
> kfree(core->parent_names);
> fail_parent_names:
> +fail_ops:
> kfree_const(core->name);
> fail_name:
> kfree(core);
> --
> 2.14.3
>