comedi: comedi_8255: Correct error in subdevice initialization
CVE: CVE-2024-26867
Component: kernel
CWE: CWE-476
Severity: Low
CVSS v3: 5.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Release date: 2024-04-17T00:00:00+00:00

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

comedi: comedi_8255: Correct error in subdevice initialization

The refactoring done in commit 5c57b1ccecc7 ("comedi: comedi_8255: Rework
subdevice initialization functions") to the initialization of the io
field of struct subdev_8255_private broke all cards using the
drivers/comedi/drivers/comedi_8255.c module.

Prior to 5c57b1ccecc7, __subdev_8255_init() initialized the io field
in the newly allocated struct subdev_8255_private to the non-NULL
callback given to the function, otherwise it used a flag parameter to
select between subdev_8255_mmio and subdev_8255_io. The refactoring
removed that logic and the flag, as subdev_8255_mm_init() and
subdev_8255_io_init() now explicitly pass subdev_8255_mmio and
subdev_8255_io respectively to __subdev_8255_init(), only
__subdev_8255_init() never sets spriv->io to the supplied
callback. That spriv->io is NULL leads to a later BUG:

BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000
PGD 0 P4D 0
Oops: 0010 [#1] SMP PTI
CPU: 1 PID: 1210 Comm: systemd-udevd Not tainted 6.7.3-x86_64 #1
Hardware name: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
RIP: 0010:0x0
Code: Unable to access opcode bytes at 0xffffffffffffffd6.
RSP: 0018:ffffa3f1c02d7b78 EFLAGS: 00010202
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff91f847aefd00 RCX: 000000000000009b
RDX: 0000000000000003 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: ffff91f840f6fc00
RBP: ffff91f840f6fc00 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000001
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 000000000000005f R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffffffffc0102498 R15: ffff91f847ce6ba8
FS:  00007f72f4e8f500(0000) GS:ffff91f8d5c80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: ffffffffffffffd6 CR3: 000000010540e000 CR4: 00000000000406f0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 ? __die_body+0x15/0x57
 ? page_fault_oops+0x2ef/0x33c
 ? insert_vmap_area.constprop.0+0xb6/0xd5
 ? alloc_vmap_area+0x529/0x5ee
 ? exc_page_fault+0x15a/0x489
 ? asm_exc_page_fault+0x22/0x30
 __subdev_8255_init+0x79/0x8d [comedi_8255]
 pci_8255_auto_attach+0x11a/0x139 [8255_pci]
 comedi_auto_config+0xac/0x117 [comedi]
 ? __pfx___driver_attach+0x10/0x10
 pci_device_probe+0x88/0xf9
 really_probe+0x101/0x248
 __driver_probe_device+0xbb/0xed
 driver_probe_device+0x1a/0x72
 __driver_attach+0xd4/0xed
 bus_for_each_dev+0x76/0xb8
 bus_add_driver+0xbe/0x1be
 driver_register+0x9a/0xd8
 comedi_pci_driver_register+0x28/0x48 [comedi_pci]
 ? __pfx_pci_8255_driver_init+0x10/0x10 [8255_pci]
 do_one_initcall+0x72/0x183
 do_init_module+0x5b/0x1e8
 init_module_from_file+0x86/0xac
 __do_sys_finit_module+0x151/0x218
 do_syscall_64+0x72/0xdb
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0x76
RIP: 0033:0x7f72f50a0cb9
Code: ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 8b 0d 47 71 0c 00 f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007ffd47e512d8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000139
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000562dd06ae070 RCX: 00007f72f50a0cb9
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00007f72f52d32df RDI: 000000000000000e
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 00007f72f5168b20 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000050 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007f72f52d32df
R13: 0000000000020000 R14: 0000562dd06785c0 R15: 0000562dcfd0e9a8
 </TASK>
Modules linked in: 8255_pci(+) comedi_8255 comedi_pci comedi intel_gtt e100(+) acpi_cpufreq rtc_cmos usbhid
CR2: 0000000000000000
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
RIP: 0010:0x0
Code: Unable to access opcode bytes at 0xffffffffffffffd6.
RSP: 0018:ffffa3f1c02d7b78 EFLAGS: 00010202
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff91f847aefd00 RCX: 000000000000009b
RDX: 0000000000000003 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: ffff91f840f6fc00
RBP: ffff91f840f6fc00 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000001
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 000000000000005f R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffffffffc0102498 R15: ffff91f847ce6ba8
FS: 
---truncated---


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