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SubjectRe: [PATCH] tracing: fix potential null pointer dereference on rctr_end

I just found this in the depths of my inbox (which is now managed by a
local Patchwork system, so no more lost patches!)

On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 23:47:00 +0100
Colin King <colin.king@canonical.com> wrote:

> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
>
> Currently rctr_end may assigned null if strchr() fails leading to
> a null pointer dereference in the following check on *(rctr_end + 1).
> Fix this by also adding a null pointer check before the dereference.
>
> Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1473700 ("Dereference null return value")
>
> Fixes: 1cc33161a83d ("uprobes: Support SDT markers having reference count (semaphore)")
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
> ---
> kernel/trace/trace_uprobe.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_uprobe.c b/kernel/trace/trace_uprobe.c
> index 3a7c73c40007..c5514651e61f 100644
> --- a/kernel/trace/trace_uprobe.c
> +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_uprobe.c
> @@ -477,7 +477,7 @@ static int create_trace_uprobe(int argc, char **argv)
> rctr = strchr(arg, '(');
> if (rctr) {
> rctr_end = strchr(rctr, ')');
> - if (rctr > rctr_end || *(rctr_end + 1) != 0) {
> + if (!rctr_end || rctr > rctr_end || *(rctr_end + 1) != 0) {

I think this is a false positive.

rctr and rctr_end are pointers. Thus, they are compared as unsigned.

To get into this code, rctr must be non NULL (greater than zero)

The first compare of the if conditional is:

rctr > rctr_end

If rctr_end is NULL, then that is guaranteed to be true!

Which means, the rctr_end will not be access, and we exit out safely.

-- Steve

> ret = -EINVAL;
> pr_info("Invalid reference counter offset.\n");
> goto fail_address_parse;

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