Bug#891773: [PATCH] ieee1275: Fix crash in of_path_of_nvme when of_path is empty

Daniel Kiper dkiper at net-space.pl
Mon Mar 5 16:04:45 UTC 2018


On Thu, Mar 01, 2018 at 08:10:10PM -0700, Eric Snowberg wrote:
> > On Mar 1, 2018, at 3:34 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz at physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> >
> > The of_path_of_nvme function (commit 2391d57, ieee1275: add nvme
> > support within ofpath) introduced a functional regression:
> >
> > On systems which are not based on Open Firmware but have at
> > least one NVME device, find_obppath will return NULL and thus
> > trying to append the disk name to of_path will result in a
> > crash.
> >
> > The proper behavior of of_path_of_nvme is, however, to just
> > return NULL in such cases, like other users of find_obppath,
> > such as of_path_of_scsi.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz at physik.fu-berlin.de>
> > ---
> > grub-core/osdep/linux/ofpath.c | 5 ++++-
> > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/grub-core/osdep/linux/ofpath.c b/grub-core/osdep/linux/ofpath.c
> > index 1c30e7233..61806212e 100644
> > --- a/grub-core/osdep/linux/ofpath.c
> > +++ b/grub-core/osdep/linux/ofpath.c
> > @@ -389,8 +389,11 @@ of_path_of_nvme(const char *sys_devname __attribute__((unused)),
> >     }
> >
> >   of_path = find_obppath (sysfs_path);
> > +
> > +  if (of_path)
> > +    strcat (of_path, disk);
> > +
> >   free (sysfs_path);
> > -  strcat (of_path, disk);
> >   return of_path;
> > }
> >
> > --
> > 2.16.2
>
> Reviewed-by: Eric Snowberg <eric.snowberg at oracle.com>

Applied. Please CC me next time.

Daniel



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