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[PATCH] media: meson: vdec: Fix a NULL pointer dereference in amvdec_add_ts()

From: Zhou Qingyang <hidden>
Date: 2021-11-30 16:12:49
Also in: linux-amlogic, linux-arm-kernel, linux-media, lkml
Subsystem: media input infrastructure (v4l/dvb), meson video decoder driver for amlogic socs, staging subsystem, the rest · Maintainers: Mauro Carvalho Chehab, Neil Armstrong, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Linus Torvalds

In amvdec_add_ts(), there is a dereference of kzalloc(), which could lead
to a NULL pointer dereference on failure of kzalloc().

I fix this bug by adding a NULL check of new_ts.

This bug was found by a static analyzer. The analysis employs
differential checking to identify inconsistent security operations
(e.g., checks or kfrees) between two code paths and confirms that the
inconsistent operations are not recovered in the current function or
the callers, so they constitute bugs.

Note that, as a bug found by static analysis, it can be a false
positive or hard to trigger. Multiple researchers have cross-reviewed
the bug.

Builds with CONFIG_VIDEO_MESON_VDEC=m show no new warnings,
and our static analyzer no longer warns about this code.

Fixes: 876f123b8956 ("media: meson: vdec: bring up to compliance")
Signed-off-by: Zhou Qingyang <redacted>
---
 drivers/staging/media/meson/vdec/vdec_helpers.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/staging/media/meson/vdec/vdec_helpers.c b/drivers/staging/media/meson/vdec/vdec_helpers.c
index b9125c295d1d..41297c2f8f9a 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/media/meson/vdec/vdec_helpers.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/media/meson/vdec/vdec_helpers.c
@@ -234,6 +234,11 @@ void amvdec_add_ts(struct amvdec_session *sess, u64 ts,
 	unsigned long flags;
 
 	new_ts = kzalloc(sizeof(*new_ts), GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!new_ts) {
+		dev_err(sess->core->dev_dec,
+			"No enough memory in %s\n", __func__);
+		return;
+	}
 	new_ts->ts = ts;
 	new_ts->tc = tc;
 	new_ts->offset = offset;
-- 
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