Re: [PATCH][RESEND] Fix a potential NULL pointer deref in the aic7xxx, ahc_print_register() function

["Jesper Juhl" <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>]

On 04/08/07, James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-08-04 at 20:30 +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> > (resend of patch previously submitted on 28-Jul-2007 23:06)
> >
> >
> > Ehlo,
> >
> > The Coverity checker noticed that we have a potential NULL pointer
> > deref in drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx_core.c::ahc_print_register().
> > This patch handles it by adding the same test against NULL that is
> > used elsewhere in the same function.
>
> It's on my list of things to look at ... but not very high.  I suspect
> it actually isn't triggerable, but if you can tell me how, it will save
> me from looking.
>

Here's what Coverity reported :
...
6525 	int
6526 	ahc_print_register(ahc_reg_parse_entry_t *table, u_int num_entries,
6527 			   const char *name, u_int address, u_int value,
6528 			   u_int *cur_column, u_int wrap_point)
6529 	{
6530 		int	printed;
6531 		u_int	printed_mask;
6532 	

Event var_compare_op: Added "cur_column" due to comparison "cur_column != 0"
Also see events: [var_deref_op]
At conditional (1): "cur_column != 0" taking false path

6533 		if (cur_column != NULL && *cur_column >= wrap_point) {
6534 			printf("\n");
6535 			*cur_column = 0;
6536 		}
6537 		printed = printf("%s[0x%x]", name, value);

At conditional (2): "table == 0" taking true path

6538 		if (table == NULL) {
6539 			printed += printf(" ");

Event var_deref_op: Variable "cur_column" tracked as NULL was dereferenced.
Also see events: [var_compare_op]

6540 			*cur_column += printed;
6541 			return (printed);
6542 		}
...

So it requires a NULL 'table' and a != NULL 'cur_column' to trigger.
Whether or not that's actually possible I'm not sure, but it seems
safer to guard against it :)


By the way; if this can actually be triggered, then
ahd_print_register() has the same problem.


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