Re: [PATCH] ata: pata_platform: Fix a NULL pointer dereference in __pata_platform_probe()

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 12:45:25AM +0800, Zhou Qingyang wrote:
> In __pata_platform_probe(), devm_kzalloc() is assigned to ap->ops and
> there is a dereference of it right after that, which could introduce a
> NULL pointer dereference bug.
> 
> Fix this by adding a NULL check of ap->ops.
> 
> This bug was found by a static analyzer.
> 
> Builds with 'make allyesconfig' show no new warnings,
> and our static analyzer no longer warns about this code.
> 
> Fixes: f3d5e4f18dba ("ata: pata_of_platform: Allow to use 16-bit wide data transfer")
> Signed-off-by: Zhou Qingyang <zhou1615@umn.edu>
> ---

As stated in the past, please do not make contributions to the Linux
kernel until umn.edu has properly resolved its development issues.

> 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.
> 
>  drivers/ata/pata_platform.c | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/ata/pata_platform.c b/drivers/ata/pata_platform.c
> index 028329428b75..021ef9cbcbc1 100644
> --- a/drivers/ata/pata_platform.c
> +++ b/drivers/ata/pata_platform.c
> @@ -128,6 +128,8 @@ int __pata_platform_probe(struct device *dev, struct resource *io_res,
>  	ap = host->ports[0];
>  
>  	ap->ops = devm_kzalloc(dev, sizeof(*ap->ops), GFP_KERNEL);
> +	if (ap->ops)
> +		return -ENOMEM;

This change seems to leak memory.  Damien, please revert it.

thanks,

greg k-h