Re: [PATCH] vfio: Fix NULL pointer dereference in vfio_pci_bus_notifier

[Alex Williamson]

On Fri, 12 Jan 2024 14:22:21 +0800
Kunwu Chan <chentao@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> kasprintf() returns a pointer to dynamically allocated memory
> which can be NULL upon failure. Ensure the allocation was successful
> by checking the pointer validity.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kunwu Chan <chentao@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_core.c | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_core.c b/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_core.c
> index 1cbc990d42e0..74e5b89a3a0c 100644
> --- a/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_core.c
> +++ b/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_core.c
> @@ -2047,6 +2047,8 @@ static int vfio_pci_bus_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb,
>  			 pci_name(pdev));
>  		pdev->driver_override = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "%s",
>  						  vdev->vdev.ops->name);
> +		if (!pdev->driver_override)
> +			return -ENOMEM;
>  	} else if (action == BUS_NOTIFY_BOUND_DRIVER &&
>  		   pdev->is_virtfn && physfn == vdev->pdev) {
>  		struct pci_driver *drv = pci_dev_driver(pdev);

This is a blocking notifier callback, so errno isn't a proper return
value, nor does it accomplish anything.  We're into the realm of
worrying about small allocation failures here, which I understand
essentially cannot happen, but about the best we could do at this
point would be to WARN_ON if we weren't able to allocate an override.
Thanks,

Alex