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
next 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
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