From: Li Tuo <islituo@gmail.com>
To: amitkarwar@gmail.com, ganapathi017@gmail.com,
sharvari.harisangam@nxp.com, huxinming820@gmail.com,
kvalo@codeaurora.org, davem@davemloft.net, kuba@kernel.org
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, baijiaju1990@gmail.com
Subject: [BUG] mwifiex: possible null-pointer dereference in mwifiex_dnld_cmd_to_fw()
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2021 12:13:46 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <968036b8-df27-3f22-074b-3aeed7c7bbf2@gmail.com> (raw)
Hello,
Our static analysis tool finds a possible null-pointer dereference in
the mwifiex driver in Linux 5.14.0-rc3:
The variable cmd_node->cmd_skb->data is assigned to the variable
host_cmd, and host_cmd is checked in:
190: if (host_cmd == NULL || host_cmd->size == 0)
This indicates that host_cmd can be NULL.
If so, the function mwifiex_recycle_cmd_node() will be called with the
argument cmd_node:
196: mwifiex_recycle_cmd_node(adapter, cmd_node);
In this called function, the variable cmd_node->cmd_skb->data is
assigned to the variable host_cmd, too.
Thus the variable host_cmd in the function mwifiex_recycle_cmd_node()
can be also NULL.
However, it is dereferenced when calling le16_to_cpu():
144: le16_to_cpu(host_cmd->command)
I am not quite sure whether this possible null-pointer dereference is
real and how to fix it if it is real.
Any feedback would be appreciated, thanks!
Reported-by: TOTE Robot <oslab@tsinghua.edu.cn>
Best wishes,
Tuo Li
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2021-07-31 4:13 Li Tuo [this message]
2021-08-02 20:44 ` [BUG] mwifiex: possible null-pointer dereference in mwifiex_dnld_cmd_to_fw() Brian Norris
2021-08-03 2:34 ` Li Tuo
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