On Thursday, 26 of June 2008, Jiri Kosina wrote:
quoted text
> On Thu, 26 Jun 2008, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> 
> > BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000000
> > IP: [<ffffffff80264230>] find_symbol+0x230/0x260
> > PGD 5c817067 PUD 5cccf067 PMD 0
> > Oops: 0002 [1] SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
> > last sysfs file:
> > CPU 0
> > Modules linked in:
> > Pid: 912, comm: modprobe Not tainted 2.6.26-rc7-next #4
> > RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff80264230>]  [<ffffffff80264230>] find_symbol+0x230/0x260
> > RSP: 0018:ffff81005cbddc68  EFLAGS: 00010202
> > RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 000000000000003d RCX: ffffffff805b8568
> > RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff80573e0f RDI: ffffffff805c0bcc
> > RBP: ffff81005cbddda8 R08: ffff81005cbddd48 R09: 0000000000000001
> > R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 000000000000003c R12: fffffffffffffff2
> > R13: 00000000000b2507 R14: 00000000006181e0 R15: ffffc20000689240
> > FS:  00007f5820fed6f0(0000) GS:ffffffff80613f40(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
> > CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
> > CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 000000005c87f000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
> > DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
> > DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
> > Process modprobe (pid: 912, threadinfo ffff81005cbdc000, task ffff81005c9f6840)
> > Stack:  ffff81005c9f6840 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000000006180f8
> > ffff81005cbddf40 0000000000000000 ffff81005c9f6840 ffffffff8049728f
> > 00000000000b2507 00000000006181e0 ffff81005cbddcd8 ffffffff8025c70a
> > Call Trace:
> > [<ffffffff8049728f>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_thunk+0x3a/0x3f
> > [<ffffffff8025c70a>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0xca/0x160
> > [<ffffffff8049728f>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_thunk+0x3a/0x3f
> > [<ffffffff8020f167>] ? do_softirq+0x47/0xa0
> > [<ffffffff8020bc9f>] ? restore_args+0x0/0x30
> > [<ffffffff80263c80>] ? struct_module+0x0/0x10
> > [<ffffffff802648f3>] ? find_sec+0x53/0x70
> > [<ffffffff80265c04>] sys_init_module+0x6b4/0x1e00
> > [<ffffffff802afc11>] ? do_sync_read+0xf1/0x130
> > [<ffffffff802505e0>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x40
> > [<ffffffff80323791>] ? security_file_permission+0x11/0x20
> > [<ffffffff8049728f>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_thunk+0x3a/0x3f
> > [<ffffffff8025c70a>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0xca/0x160
> > [<ffffffff8049728f>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_thunk+0x3a/0x3f
> > [<ffffffff8020b65b>] system_call_after_swapgs+0x7b/0x80
> >
> >
> > Code: 49 8b 43 08 0f 18 08 49 8d 43 08 48 3d c0 a5 5d 80 0f 85 47 fe ff ff 48 c7 c0 fe ff ff ff eb 20 48 8b 45 b0 48 8b 95 e8 fe ff ff <48> 89 02 48
> > RIP  [<ffffffff80264230>] find_symbol+0x230/0x260
> > RSP <ffff81005cbddc68>
> > CR2: 0000000000000000
> > ---[ end trace 81cec6311b0e1cee ]---
> 
> I guess this got in through Rusty's tree, right?
> 
> Does the patch below fix it please?

Yes, it does.

Thanks,
Rafael


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> From: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
> Subject: [PATCH] module: fix NULL pointer dereference in find_symbol()
> 
> The patch that introduces each_symbol() iterator forgets to
> test the NULL value of the output parameters (which the original
> code did).
> 
> This patch restores the correct checks.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
> ---
>   kernel/module.c |    6 ++++--
>   1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c
> index 880409f..a3354ca 100644
> --- a/kernel/module.c
> +++ b/kernel/module.c
> @@ -304,8 +304,10 @@ static unsigned long find_symbol(const char *name,
>   	fsa.warn = warn;
> 
>   	if (each_symbol(find_symbol_in_section, &fsa)) {
> -		*owner = fsa.owner;
> -		*crc = fsa.crc;
> +		if (owner)
> +			*owner = fsa.owner;
> +		if (crc)
> +			*crc = fsa.crc;
>   		return fsa.value;
>   	}
> 
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