Re: [PATCH] tty/sysrq: Make local variable 'killer' in sysrq_handle_crash() global

[Sai Prakash Ranjan]

On 9/18/2018 3:03 AM, Matthias Kaehlcke wrote:
> sysrq_handle_crash() dereferences a NULL pointer on purpose to force
> an exception, the local variable 'killer' is assigned to NULL and
> dereferenced later. Clang detects the NULL pointer dereference at compile
> time and emits a BRK instruction (on arm64) instead of the expected NULL
> pointer exception. Change 'killer' to a global variable (and rename it
> to 'sysrq_killer' to avoid possible clashes) to prevent Clang from
> detecting the condition. By default global variables are initialized
> with zero/NULL in C, therefore an explicit initialization is not needed.
>
> Reported-by: Sai Prakash Ranjan <saiprakash.ranjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Suggested-by: Evan Green <evgreen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>   drivers/tty/sysrq.c | 6 +++---
>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/tty/sysrq.c b/drivers/tty/sysrq.c
> index 06ed20dd01ba..49fa8e758690 100644
> --- a/drivers/tty/sysrq.c
> +++ b/drivers/tty/sysrq.c
> @@ -132,10 +132,10 @@ static struct sysrq_key_op sysrq_unraw_op = {
>   #define sysrq_unraw_op (*(struct sysrq_key_op *)NULL)
>   #endif /* CONFIG_VT */
>   
> +char *sysrq_killer;
> +
>   static void sysrq_handle_crash(int key)
>   {
> -	char *killer = NULL;
> -
>   	/* we need to release the RCU read lock here,
>   	 * otherwise we get an annoying
>   	 * 'BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context'
> @@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ static void sysrq_handle_crash(int key)
>   	rcu_read_unlock();
>   	panic_on_oops = 1;	/* force panic */
>   	wmb();
> -	*killer = 1;
> +	*sysrq_killer = 1;
>   }
>   static struct sysrq_key_op sysrq_crash_op = {
>   	.handler	= sysrq_handle_crash,

Tested-by: Sai Prakash Ranjan <saiprakash.ranjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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