Re: [PATCH] serial: 8250: fix NULL pointer dereference in serial8250_do_startup()

[Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>]

On 2021-04-26 18:17, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 26, 2021 at 06:14:33PM +0200, Vegard Nossum wrote:
>>   static void set_io_from_upio(struct uart_port *p)
>>   {
>>   	struct uart_8250_port *up = up_to_u8250p(p);
>> @@ -2151,6 +2178,11 @@ int serial8250_do_startup(struct uart_port *port)
>>   	unsigned char lsr, iir;
>>   	int retval;
>>   
>> +	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(needs_membase(port->iotype) && !port->membase))
>> +		return -ENODEV;
>> +	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(needs_iobase(port->iotype) && !port->iobase))
>> +		return -ENODEV;
> 
> These WARN_ON() will still trigger syzbot.  Are you sure you tested this
> and had syzbot verify it?

I tested it locally and the WARN_ON()s don't trigger -- presumably
because serial8250_verify_port() is called from uart_set_info() before
we get to serial8250_do_startup():

         /*
          * Ask the low level driver to verify the settings.
          */
         if (uport->ops->verify_port)
                 retval = uport->ops->verify_port(uport, new_info);

[...]

                 retval = uart_startup(tty, state, 1);

At least, this was my intention. Although now that I look at it again,
it looks like this check may be skipped in some cases; is that what
you're referring to?

I didn't have syzbot verify it -- I thought it would do that when
submitting my patch. Looks like I need to push somewhere and ask syzbot
to test it using this?

#syz test: git://repo/address.git commit-hash

(I assume I can send this privately as long as I use the right
syzbot+...@ To-address?)

Thanks,


Vegard