ramoops: add pdata NULL check to ramoops_probe

This adds a check for a NULL platform data, which should only be possible if a driver incorrectly sets up a probe request without also having defined the platform_data structure. This is based on a patch from Geliang Tang. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
olifre · Nov 16, 2016 · fc46d4e · fc46d4e
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commit fc46d4e
Showing 1 changed file with 11 additions and 2 deletions.
diff --git a/fs/pstore/ram.c b/fs/pstore/ram.c
@@ -734,11 +734,20 @@ static int ramoops_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 			goto fail_out;
 	}
 
-	/* Only a single ramoops area allowed at a time, so fail extra
+	/*
+	 * Only a single ramoops area allowed at a time, so fail extra
 	 * probes.
 	 */
-	if (cxt->max_dump_cnt)
+	if (cxt->max_dump_cnt) {
+		pr_err("already initialized\n");
 		goto fail_out;
+	}
+
+	/* Make sure we didn't get bogus platform data pointer. */
+	if (!pdata) {
+		pr_err("NULL platform data\n");
+		goto fail_out;
+	}
 
 	if (!pdata->mem_size || (!pdata->record_size && !pdata->console_size &&
 			!pdata->ftrace_size && !pdata->pmsg_size)) {