NACK/Cmt: [SRU][F][PATCH 1/2] cpufreq: brcmstb-avs-cpufreq: add check for cpufreq_cpu_get's return value

Thibault Ferrante thibault.ferrante at canonical.com
Tue Sep 10 10:14:31 UTC 2024


On 10-09-2024 03:40, Koichiro Den wrote:
> From: Anastasia Belova <abelova at astralinux.ru>
> 
> cpufreq_cpu_get may return NULL. To avoid NULL-dereference check it
> and return 0 in case of error.
> 
> Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.
> 
> Fixes: de322e085995 ("cpufreq: brcmstb-avs-cpufreq: AVS CPUfreq driver for Broadcom STB SoCs")
> Signed-off-by: Anastasia Belova <abelova at astralinux.ru>
> Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar at linaro.org>
> (cherry picked from f661017e6d326ee187db24194cabb013d81bc2a6)
Both commits should be `backported from commit` as there is context adjustment done.


> CVE-2024-27051
> Signed-off-by: Koichiro Den <koichiro.den at canonical.com>
> ---
>   drivers/cpufreq/brcmstb-avs-cpufreq.c | 2 ++
>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/brcmstb-avs-cpufreq.c b/drivers/cpufreq/brcmstb-avs-cpufreq.c
> index 541486217984..1302e1900dcb 100644
> --- a/drivers/cpufreq/brcmstb-avs-cpufreq.c
> +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/brcmstb-avs-cpufreq.c
> @@ -457,6 +457,8 @@ static bool brcm_avs_is_firmware_loaded(struct private_data *priv)
>   static unsigned int brcm_avs_cpufreq_get(unsigned int cpu)
>   {
>   	struct cpufreq_policy *policy = cpufreq_cpu_get(cpu);
> +	if (!policy)
> +		return 0;
>   	struct private_data *priv = policy->driver_data;
>   
>   	return brcm_avs_get_frequency(priv->base);


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Thibault



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