ipmi: ssif: initialize ssif_info->client early
authorMian Yousaf Kaukab <ykaukab@suse.de>
Wed, 8 Dec 2021 09:32:39 +0000 (10:32 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 29 Dec 2021 11:26:01 +0000 (12:26 +0100)
commit1f6ab847461ce7dd89ae9db2dd4658c993355d7c
treeb0d0e56131eb50b40ff8c30053087f50be70c340
parenta5192f31160c1739ef6525ed77d6aafa8e6565dd
ipmi: ssif: initialize ssif_info->client early

commit 34f35f8f14bc406efc06ee4ff73202c6fd245d15 upstream.

During probe ssif_info->client is dereferenced in error path. However,
it is set when some of the error checking has already been done. This
causes following kernel crash if an error path is taken:

[   30.645593][  T674] ipmi_ssif 0-000e: ipmi_ssif: Not probing, Interface already present
[   30.657616][  T674] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000088
...
[   30.657723][  T674] pc : __dev_printk+0x28/0xa0
[   30.657732][  T674] lr : _dev_err+0x7c/0xa0
...
[   30.657772][  T674] Call trace:
[   30.657775][  T674]  __dev_printk+0x28/0xa0
[   30.657778][  T674]  _dev_err+0x7c/0xa0
[   30.657781][  T674]  ssif_probe+0x548/0x900 [ipmi_ssif 62ce4b08badc1458fd896206d9ef69a3c31f3d3e]
[   30.657791][  T674]  i2c_device_probe+0x37c/0x3c0
...

Initialize ssif_info->client before any error path can be taken. Clear
i2c_client data in the error path to prevent the dangling pointer from
leaking.

Fixes: c4436c9149c5 ("ipmi_ssif: avoid registering duplicate ssif interface")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.4.x
Suggested-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Mian Yousaf Kaukab <ykaukab@suse.de>
Message-Id: <20211208093239.4432-1-ykaukab@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_ssif.c