From 29416e26236a2e6b9cfe67260835300dc07b2d26 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tetsuo Handa Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 13:45:08 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] kernel/kmod.c: check for NULL in call_usermodehelper_exec() commit 4c1c7be95c345cf2ad537a0c48e9aeadc7304527 upstream. If /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern contains only "|", a NULL pointer dereference happens upon core dump because argv_split("") returns argv[0] == NULL. This bug was once fixed by commit 264b83c07a84 ("usermodehelper: check subprocess_info->path != NULL") but was by error reintroduced by commit 7f57cfa4e2aa ("usermodehelper: kill the sub_info->path[0] check"). This bug seems to exist since 2.6.19 (the version which core dump to pipe was added). Depending on kernel version and config, some side effect might happen immediately after this oops (e.g. kernel panic with 2.6.32-358.18.1.el6). Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- kernel/kmod.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/kernel/kmod.c b/kernel/kmod.c index fb326365b694..b086006c59e7 100644 --- a/kernel/kmod.c +++ b/kernel/kmod.c @@ -571,6 +571,10 @@ int call_usermodehelper_exec(struct subprocess_info *sub_info, int wait) DECLARE_COMPLETION_ONSTACK(done); int retval = 0; + if (!sub_info->path) { + call_usermodehelper_freeinfo(sub_info); + return -EINVAL; + } helper_lock(); if (!khelper_wq || usermodehelper_disabled) { retval = -EBUSY; -- 2.47.3