From: lzhan011 <lzsx618@gmail.com>
To: nathan@kernel.org, nsc@kernel.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/9] kconfig: fix NULL pointer dereference for defaults taken from choice members
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2026 05:40:42 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261005104050.1786222-2-lzsx618@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261005104050.1786222-1-lzsx618@gmail.com>
From: lzhan011 <zhangleizhen645@gmail.com>
Since commit f79dc03fe68c ("kconfig: refactor choice value calculation"),
sym_calc_choice() marks the members of a choice SYMBOL_VALID but only
sets their curr.tri; curr.val is left NULL. If a string, int or hex
symbol takes its default from such a choice member, sym_calc_value() and
sym_get_string_default() copy ds->curr.val, so the symbol ends up with a
NULL string value. Depending on symbol order this crashes in conf_read()
(strcmp), sym_get_string_default() (str[0]) or ends up writing
CONFIG_X=(null).
Reproducer:
choice
prompt "choice"
config C1
bool "c1"
config C2
bool "c2"
endchoice
config FOO
bool
default C2
config BAR
string
default C1
$ touch .config
$ KCONFIG_CONFIG=.config scripts/kconfig/conf --olddefconfig Kconfig
Segmentation fault
Use sym_get_string_value() instead of reading curr.val directly. It
handles all symbol types and returns "y"/"m"/"n" for tristate and bool
symbols.
The resulting .config and savedefconfig output for defconfig,
allyesconfig, allnoconfig, allmodconfig and randconfig on x86_64, arm64,
riscv, powerpc, s390, arm and mips is unchanged.
Found by fuzzing Kconfig input with ASan/UBSan.
Fixes: f79dc03fe68c ("kconfig: refactor choice value calculation")
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5 ASan UBSan libFuzzer
Signed-off-by: lzhan011 <zhangleizhen645@gmail.com>
---
scripts/kconfig/symbol.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/symbol.c b/scripts/kconfig/symbol.c
index dcb4b45e6..de88b13f5 100644
--- a/scripts/kconfig/symbol.c
+++ b/scripts/kconfig/symbol.c
@@ -546,7 +546,7 @@ void sym_calc_value(struct symbol *sym)
if (ds) {
sym->flags |= SYMBOL_WRITE;
sym_calc_value(ds);
- newval.val = ds->curr.val;
+ newval.val = (char *)sym_get_string_value(ds);
}
}
break;
@@ -887,7 +887,7 @@ const char *sym_get_string_default(struct symbol *sym)
ds = prop_get_symbol(prop);
if (ds != NULL) {
sym_calc_value(ds);
- str = (const char *)ds->curr.val;
+ str = sym_get_string_value(ds);
}
}
}
--
2.34.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-05 10:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-05 10:40 [PATCH 0/9] kbuild: fix memory safety and UB bugs in host tools found by fuzzing lzhan011
2026-10-05 10:40 ` lzhan011 [this message]
2026-10-08 16:04 ` [PATCH 1/9] kconfig: fix NULL pointer dereference for defaults taken from choice members Julian Braha
2026-10-05 10:40 ` [PATCH 2/9] genksyms: fix infinite loop on declarations with parameter lists lzhan011
2026-10-05 10:40 ` [PATCH 3/9] fixdep: fix out-of-bounds read on a comment ending with a backslash lzhan011
2026-10-05 10:40 ` [PATCH 4/9] kallsyms: do not call qsort() with a NULL table lzhan011
2026-10-05 10:40 ` [PATCH 5/9] modpost: fix stack out-of-bounds read for unterminated PNP ids lzhan011
2026-10-05 10:40 ` [PATCH 6/9] modpost: fix handling of short reads in read_text_file() lzhan011
2026-10-05 10:40 ` [PATCH 7/9] modpost: fix pointer arithmetic on NULL in parse_source_files() lzhan011
2026-10-05 10:40 ` [PATCH 8/9] sorttable: avoid pointer arithmetic overflow when locating sort_needed lzhan011
2026-10-05 10:40 ` [PATCH 9/9] tools/include: fix signed shift overflow in 32-bit unaligned accessors lzhan011
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