Re: [PATCH] input: pxa27x_keypad: fix NULL pointer dereference

On 09/16/2013 10:06 AM, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:

On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 06:49:53PM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:

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Dear Mike Dunn,

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A NULL pointer dereference exception occurs in the driver probe function
when device tree is used.  The pdata pointer will be NULL in this case,
but the code dereferences it in all cases.  When device tree is used, a
platform data structure is allocated and initialized, and in all cases
this pointer is copied to the driver's private data, so the variable being
tested should be accessed through the driver's private data structure.

Signed-off-by: Mike Dunn <redacted>
---
 drivers/input/keyboard/pxa27x_keypad.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/input/keyboard/pxa27x_keypad.c

b/drivers/input/keyboard/pxa27x_keypad.c index 134c3b4..3b2a614 100644

--- a/drivers/input/keyboard/pxa27x_keypad.c
+++ b/drivers/input/keyboard/pxa27x_keypad.c

@@ -795,8 +795,10 @@ static int pxa27x_keypad_probe(struct platform_device

*pdev) goto failed_put_clk;
 	}

-	if ((pdata->enable_rotary0 && keypad->rotary_rel_code[0] != -1) ||
-	    (pdata->enable_rotary1 && keypad->rotary_rel_code[1] != -1)) {
+	if ((keypad->pdata->enable_rotary0 &&
+	     keypad->rotary_rel_code[0] != -1) ||
+	    (keypad->pdata->enable_rotary1 &&
+	     keypad->rotary_rel_code[1] != -1)) {
 		input_dev->evbit[0] |= BIT_MASK(EV_REL);
 	}

Nice find. Acked-by: Marek Vasut [off-list ref]

Excellent booby trap. I would prefer if we explicitly did

	pdata = keypad->pdata;

after calling the parse DT fucntion with a nice comment, because we
somebody might want to rearrange the code and accidentially revert the
checks to the original state.

Yes, that would have been better.  Is someone picking this up?  I'm not familir
with the input subsystem maintainer (sorry).  If this will be upstreamed in
someone's tree, I'll be glad to resubmit with this change.  Or, if you prefer,
please feel free to shepherd this Dmitry.

Sorry for the delay.

Thanks,
Mike