Could you please provide your input? Thanks.

Zhe

On 2018年08月14日 23:33, [email protected] wrote:
> From: He Zhe <[email protected]>
>
> memory_corruption_check[{_period|_size}]'s handlers do not check input
> argument before passing it to kstrtoul or simple_strtoull. The argument
> would be a NULL pointer if each of the kernel parameters, without its
> value, is set in command line and thus cause the following panic.
>
> PANIC: early exception 0xe3 IP 10:ffffffff73587c22 error 0 cr2 0x0
> [    0.000000] CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 4.18-rc8+ #2
> [    0.000000] RIP: 0010:kstrtoull+0x2/0x10
> ...
> [    0.000000] Call Trace
> [    0.000000]  ? set_corruption_check+0x21/0x49
> [    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 checks to prevent the panic.
>
> Cc: [email protected]
> Signed-off-by: He Zhe <[email protected]>
> ---
> v2:
> - Split out printk cleanups
> - Add cc to [email protected]
> - Use more meaningful error message
>
>  arch/x86/kernel/check.c | 15 +++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/check.c b/arch/x86/kernel/check.c
> index 3339942..cc8258a 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/check.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/check.c
> @@ -31,6 +31,11 @@ static __init int set_corruption_check(char *arg)
>       ssize_t ret;
>       unsigned long val;
>  
> +     if (!arg) {
> +             pr_err("memory_corruption_check config string not provided\n");
> +             return -EINVAL;
> +     }
> +
>       ret = kstrtoul(arg, 10, &val);
>       if (ret)
>               return ret;
> @@ -45,6 +50,11 @@ static __init int set_corruption_check_period(char *arg)
>       ssize_t ret;
>       unsigned long val;
>  
> +     if (!arg) {
> +             pr_err("memory_corruption_check_period config string not 
> provided\n");
> +             return -EINVAL;
> +     }
> +
>       ret = kstrtoul(arg, 10, &val);
>       if (ret)
>               return ret;
> @@ -59,6 +69,11 @@ static __init int set_corruption_check_size(char *arg)
>       char *end;
>       unsigned size;
>  
> +     if (!arg) {
> +             pr_err("memory_corruption_check_size config string not 
> provided\n");
> +             return -EINVAL;
> +     }
> +
>       size = memparse(arg, &end);
>  
>       if (*end == '\0')

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