Thread (1 message) 1 message, 1 author, 2019-08-14
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[PATCH AUTOSEL 4.19 33/68] net: phy: phy_led_triggers: Fix a possible null-pointer dereference in phy_led_trigger_change_speed()

From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Date: 2019-08-14 02:30:58
Also in: lkml, stable
Subsystem: ethernet phy library, networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers: Andrew Lunn, Heiner Kallweit, Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds

From: Jia-Ju Bai <redacted>

[ Upstream commit 271da132e29b5341c31eca6ba6a72ea1302ebac8 ]

In phy_led_trigger_change_speed(), there is an if statement on line 48
to check whether phy->last_triggered is NULL:
    if (!phy->last_triggered)

When phy->last_triggered is NULL, it is used on line 52:
    led_trigger_event(&phy->last_triggered->trigger, LED_OFF);

Thus, a possible null-pointer dereference may occur.

To fix this bug, led_trigger_event(&phy->last_triggered->trigger,
LED_OFF) is called when phy->last_triggered is not NULL.

This bug is found by a static analysis tool STCheck written by
the OSLAB group in Tsinghua University.

Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai <redacted>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
 drivers/net/phy/phy_led_triggers.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/phy_led_triggers.c b/drivers/net/phy/phy_led_triggers.c
index 491efc1bf5c48..7278eca70f9f3 100644
--- a/drivers/net/phy/phy_led_triggers.c
+++ b/drivers/net/phy/phy_led_triggers.c
@@ -58,8 +58,9 @@ void phy_led_trigger_change_speed(struct phy_device *phy)
 		if (!phy->last_triggered)
 			led_trigger_event(&phy->led_link_trigger->trigger,
 					  LED_FULL);
+		else
+			led_trigger_event(&phy->last_triggered->trigger, LED_OFF);
 
-		led_trigger_event(&phy->last_triggered->trigger, LED_OFF);
 		led_trigger_event(&plt->trigger, LED_FULL);
 		phy->last_triggered = plt;
 	}
-- 
2.20.1
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