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SubjectRe: [PATCH] thermal: Fix potential NULL pointer accesses
On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 08:44:55AM +0800, Zhang Rui wrote:
> On 二, 2012-08-07 at 22:36 -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > The type parameter in thermal_zone_device_register and
> > thermal_cooling_device_register can be NULL, indicating that no sysfs attribute
> > for the type should be created. Only call strlen() and strcpy() on type if it is
> > not NULL.
> >
> > This patch addresses Coverity #102180 and #102182: Dereference before null check
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
>
> Acked-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
>
How do we get this patch upstream ? I thought you'd take it through your tree.

Thanks,
Guenter

> > ---
> > Applies on top of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rzhang/linux.git (thermal).
> >
> > drivers/thermal/thermal_sys.c | 8 ++++----
> > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/thermal/thermal_sys.c b/drivers/thermal/thermal_sys.c
> > index 5be8728..e69f76d 100644
> > --- a/drivers/thermal/thermal_sys.c
> > +++ b/drivers/thermal/thermal_sys.c
> > @@ -900,7 +900,7 @@ thermal_cooling_device_register(char *type, void *devdata,
> > struct thermal_zone_device *pos;
> > int result;
> >
> > - if (strlen(type) >= THERMAL_NAME_LENGTH)
> > + if (type && strlen(type) >= THERMAL_NAME_LENGTH)
> > return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
> >
> > if (!ops || !ops->get_max_state || !ops->get_cur_state ||
> > @@ -917,7 +917,7 @@ thermal_cooling_device_register(char *type, void *devdata,
> > return ERR_PTR(result);
> > }
> >
> > - strcpy(cdev->type, type);
> > + strcpy(cdev->type, type ? : "");
> > mutex_init(&cdev->lock);
> > INIT_LIST_HEAD(&cdev->thermal_instances);
> > cdev->ops = ops;
> > @@ -1343,7 +1343,7 @@ struct thermal_zone_device *thermal_zone_device_register(const char *type,
> > int count;
> > int passive = 0;
> >
> > - if (strlen(type) >= THERMAL_NAME_LENGTH)
> > + if (type && strlen(type) >= THERMAL_NAME_LENGTH)
> > return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
> >
> > if (trips > THERMAL_MAX_TRIPS || trips < 0 || mask >> trips)
> > @@ -1365,7 +1365,7 @@ struct thermal_zone_device *thermal_zone_device_register(const char *type,
> > return ERR_PTR(result);
> > }
> >
> > - strcpy(tz->type, type);
> > + strcpy(tz->type, type ? : "");
> > tz->ops = ops;
> > tz->device.class = &thermal_class;
> > tz->devdata = devdata;
>
>
>
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