kgdboc: Passing ekgdboc to command line causes panic
authorHe Zhe <zhe.he@windriver.com>
Fri, 17 Aug 2018 14:42:28 +0000 (22:42 +0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 13 Nov 2018 19:17:02 +0000 (11:17 -0800)
commit 1bd54d851f50dea6af30c3e6ff4f3e9aab5558f9 upstream.

kgdboc_option_setup does not check input argument before passing it
to strlen. The argument would be a NULL pointer if "ekgdboc", without
its value, is set in command line and thus cause the following panic.

PANIC: early exception 0xe3 IP 10:ffffffff8fbbb620 error 0 cr2 0x0
[    0.000000] CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 4.18-rc8+ #1
[    0.000000] RIP: 0010:strlen+0x0/0x20
...
[    0.000000] Call Trace
[    0.000000]  ? kgdboc_option_setup+0x9/0xa0
[    0.000000]  ? kgdboc_early_init+0x6/0x1b
[    0.000000]  ? do_early_param+0x4d/0x82
[    0.000000]  ? parse_args+0x212/0x330
[    0.000000]  ? rdinit_setup+0x26/0x26
[    0.000000]  ? parse_early_options+0x20/0x23
[    0.000000]  ? rdinit_setup+0x26/0x26
[    0.000000]  ? parse_early_param+0x2d/0x39
[    0.000000]  ? setup_arch+0x2f7/0xbf4
[    0.000000]  ? start_kernel+0x5e/0x4c2
[    0.000000]  ? load_ucode_bsp+0x113/0x12f
[    0.000000]  ? secondary_startup_64+0xa5/0xb0

This patch adds a check to prevent the panic.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: jason.wessel@windriver.com
Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Cc: jslaby@suse.com
Signed-off-by: He Zhe <zhe.he@windriver.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/tty/serial/kgdboc.c

index a260cde743e272657673474d9612c0bf663d3995..2db68dfe497dffaa29bfa9e87b426a836b46bf31 100644 (file)
@@ -133,6 +133,11 @@ static void kgdboc_unregister_kbd(void)
 
 static int kgdboc_option_setup(char *opt)
 {
+       if (!opt) {
+               pr_err("kgdboc: config string not provided\n");
+               return -EINVAL;
+       }
+
        if (strlen(opt) >= MAX_CONFIG_LEN) {
                printk(KERN_ERR "kgdboc: config string too long\n");
                return -ENOSPC;