mirror of https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Haotian Zhang <vulab@iscas.ac.cn>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Haotian Zhang <vulab@iscas.ac.cn>
Subject: [PATCH] debug: Fix a NULL vs IS_ERR() bug in __debug_object_init()
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2025 15:57:46 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251110075746.1680-1-vulab@iscas.ac.cn> (raw)

The lookup_object_or_alloc() returns error pointers on failure, but the
code only checks for NULL. This leads to dereferencing an invalid error
pointer and causes a kernel crash.

Use IS_ERR_OR_NULL() instead of a NULL check to properly handle both
error pointers and NULL returns.

Fixes: 63a759694eed ("debugobject: Prevent init race with static objects")
Signed-off-by: Haotian Zhang <vulab@iscas.ac.cn>
---
 lib/debugobjects.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/debugobjects.c b/lib/debugobjects.c
index 7f50c4480a4e..9587ef619054 100644
--- a/lib/debugobjects.c
+++ b/lib/debugobjects.c
@@ -741,9 +741,10 @@ __debug_object_init(void *addr, const struct debug_obj_descr *descr, int onstack
 	raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&db->lock, flags);
 
 	obj = lookup_object_or_alloc(addr, db, descr, onstack, false);
-	if (unlikely(!obj)) {
+	if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(obj)) {
 		raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&db->lock, flags);
-		debug_objects_oom();
+		if (!obj)
+			debug_objects_oom();
 		return;
 	}
 
-- 
2.50.1.windows.1


             reply	other threads:[~2025-11-10  7:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-11-10  7:57 Haotian Zhang [this message]
2025-11-10 13:39 ` Kuan-Wei Chiu
2025-11-11  2:15 ` [PATCH v2] debug: Fix a mixed use of NULL and error pointers Haotian Zhang
2025-11-13 19:49   ` Kuan-Wei Chiu
2025-11-13 20:03   ` Kuan-Wei Chiu
2025-11-14  1:56 ` [PATCH v3] debugobjects: Fix inconsistent return handling and potential ERR_PTR dereference Haotian Zhang
2025-11-15 23:18   ` Thomas Gleixner
2025-11-16 18:08     ` Thomas Gleixner

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20251110075746.1680-1-vulab@iscas.ac.cn \
    --to=vulab@iscas.ac.cn \
    --cc=akpm@linux-foundation.org \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=tglx@linutronix.de \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox

all inboxes | Powered by JetHome®