Re: drivers/s390/char/keyboard.c NULL pointer reference

From: Heiko Carstens
Date: Fri Aug 04 2017 - 05:26:19 EST


On Thu, Aug 03, 2017 at 09:57:38PM +0800, sohu0106 wrote:
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> Local users able to send the NULL arg argument to kbd_ioctl(), which could cause kernel crash
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> diff --git a/keyboard.c 
> b/keyboard.c
> index ba0e4f9..3ec16b1 100644
> --- a/keyboard.c
> +++ b/keyboard.c
> @@ -456,6 +456,8 @@ int kbd_ioctl(struct kbd_data *kbd, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
>         int perm;
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>         argp = (void __user *)arg;
> +       if( !argp )
> +               return -EFAULT;

This doesn't make sense as well. All uaccess functions are able to handle
NULL pointers within user space.