net: rfkill: gpio: Fix crash due to dereferencering uninitialized pointer
authorHans de Goede <hansg@kernel.org>
Sat, 13 Sep 2025 11:35:15 +0000 (13:35 +0200)
committerJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Wed, 17 Sep 2025 10:37:05 +0000 (12:37 +0200)
commitb6f56a44e4c1014b08859dcf04ed246500e310e5
tree142b468332d0ef2e1556a13f48392fb7c750586d
parente882985b09b2469b7d48389e08fb790dc9497d60
net: rfkill: gpio: Fix crash due to dereferencering uninitialized pointer

Since commit 7d5e9737efda ("net: rfkill: gpio: get the name and type from
device property") rfkill_find_type() gets called with the possibly
uninitialized "const char *type_name;" local variable.

On x86 systems when rfkill-gpio binds to a "BCM4752" or "LNV4752"
acpi_device, the rfkill->type is set based on the ACPI acpi_device_id:

        rfkill->type = (unsigned)id->driver_data;

and there is no "type" property so device_property_read_string() will fail
and leave type_name uninitialized, leading to a potential crash.

rfkill_find_type() does accept a NULL pointer, fix the potential crash
by initializing type_name to NULL.

Note likely sofar this has not been caught because:

1. Not many x86 machines actually have a "BCM4752"/"LNV4752" acpi_device
2. The stack happened to contain NULL where type_name is stored

Fixes: 7d5e9737efda ("net: rfkill: gpio: get the name and type from device property")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hansg@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250913113515.21698-1-hansg@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
net/rfkill/rfkill-gpio.c