media: saa7146: hexium_gemini: Fix a NULL pointer dereference in hexium_attach()
authorZhou Qingyang <zhou1615@umn.edu>
Fri, 3 Dec 2021 15:40:30 +0000 (16:40 +0100)
committerMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Tue, 14 Dec 2021 14:09:14 +0000 (15:09 +0100)
commit3af86b046933ba513d08399dba0d4d8b50d607d0
treec34cddc4dc8db573a2537330e5174fe77992c051
parentce560ee5c51d32b450ac453fceeee58a2683019b
media: saa7146: hexium_gemini: Fix a NULL pointer dereference in hexium_attach()

In hexium_attach(dev, info), saa7146_vv_init() is called to allocate
a new memory for dev->vv_data. saa7146_vv_release() will be called on
failure of saa7146_register_device(). There is a dereference of
dev->vv_data in saa7146_vv_release(), which could lead to a NULL
pointer dereference on failure of saa7146_vv_init().

Fix this bug by adding a check of saa7146_vv_init().

This bug was found by a static analyzer. The analysis employs
differential checking to identify inconsistent security operations
(e.g., checks or kfrees) between two code paths and confirms that the
inconsistent operations are not recovered in the current function or
the callers, so they constitute bugs.

Note that, as a bug found by static analysis, it can be a false
positive or hard to trigger. Multiple researchers have cross-reviewed
the bug.

Builds with CONFIG_VIDEO_HEXIUM_GEMINI=m show no new warnings,
and our static analyzer no longer warns about this code.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-media/20211203154030.111210-1-zhou1615@umn.edu
Signed-off-by: Zhou Qingyang <zhou1615@umn.edu>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
drivers/media/common/saa7146/saa7146_fops.c
drivers/media/pci/saa7146/hexium_gemini.c