From: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>
To: Lino Sanfilippo <LinoSanfilippo@gmx.de>, peterhuewe@gmx.de, jgg@ziepe.ca
Cc: p.rosenberger@kunbus.com, linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tpm: fix potential NULL pointer access in tpm_del_char_device()
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2021 23:25:40 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <204a438b6db54060d03689389d6663b0d4ca815d.camel@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210910180451.19314-1-LinoSanfilippo@gmx.de>
On Fri, 2021-09-10 at 20:04 +0200, Lino Sanfilippo wrote:
> In tpm_del_char_device() make sure that chip->ops is still valid.
> This check is needed since in case of a system shutdown
> tpm_class_shutdown() has already been called and set chip->ops to NULL.
> This leads to a NULL pointer access as soon as tpm_del_char_device()
> tries to access chip->ops in case of TPM 2.
>
> Fixes: dcbeab1946454 ("tpm: fix crash in tpm_tis deinitialization")
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Lino Sanfilippo <LinoSanfilippo@gmx.de>
> ---
Have you been able to reproduce this in some environment?
/Jarkko
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-13 20:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-10 18:04 [PATCH] tpm: fix potential NULL pointer access in tpm_del_char_device() Lino Sanfilippo
2021-09-13 20:25 ` Jarkko Sakkinen [this message]
2021-09-13 20:53 ` Aw: " Lino Sanfilippo
2021-09-14 0:31 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2021-09-24 13:29 ` Lino Sanfilippo
2021-09-24 13:33 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-09-24 14:17 ` Lino Sanfilippo
2021-09-24 14:20 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-09-29 8:58 ` Lino Sanfilippo
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