Re: [RESEND PATCH v2] thermal: Fix a NULL pointer dereference

From: Greg KH
Date: Fri Nov 05 2021 - 02:50:31 EST


On Thu, Nov 04, 2021 at 04:57:07PM -0700, Subbaraman Narayanamurthy wrote:
> of_parse_thermal_zones() parses the thermal-zones node and registers a
> thermal_zone device for each subnode. However, if a thermal zone is
> consuming a thermal sensor and that thermal sensor device hasn't probed
> yet, an attempt to set trip_point_*_temp for that thermal zone device
> can cause a NULL pointer dereference. Fix it.
>
> console:/sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone87 # echo 120000 > trip_point_0_temp
> ...
> Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000020
> ...
> Call trace:
> of_thermal_set_trip_temp+0x40/0xc4
> trip_point_temp_store+0xc0/0x1dc
> dev_attr_store+0x38/0x88
> sysfs_kf_write+0x64/0xc0
> kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x108/0x1d0
> vfs_write+0x2f4/0x368
> ksys_write+0x7c/0xec
> __arm64_sys_write+0x20/0x30
> el0_svc_common.llvm.7279915941325364641+0xbc/0x1bc
> do_el0_svc+0x28/0xa0
> el0_svc+0x14/0x24
> el0_sync_handler+0x88/0xec
> el0_sync+0x1c0/0x200
>
> While at it, fix the possible NULL pointer dereference in other
> functions as well: of_thermal_get_temp(), of_thermal_set_emul_temp(),
> of_thermal_get_trend().
>
> Suggested-by: David Collins <quic_collinsd@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Subbaraman Narayanamurthy <quic_subbaram@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/thermal/thermal_of.c | 9 ++++++---
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>

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