linux/net/rfkill
Hans de Goede b6f56a44e4 net: rfkill: gpio: Fix crash due to dereferencering uninitialized pointer
Since commit 7d5e9737ef ("net: rfkill: gpio: get the name and type from
device property") rfkill_find_type() gets called with the possibly
uninitialized "const char *type_name;" local variable.

On x86 systems when rfkill-gpio binds to a "BCM4752" or "LNV4752"
acpi_device, the rfkill->type is set based on the ACPI acpi_device_id:

        rfkill->type = (unsigned)id->driver_data;

and there is no "type" property so device_property_read_string() will fail
and leave type_name uninitialized, leading to a potential crash.

rfkill_find_type() does accept a NULL pointer, fix the potential crash
by initializing type_name to NULL.

Note likely sofar this has not been caught because:

1. Not many x86 machines actually have a "BCM4752"/"LNV4752" acpi_device
2. The stack happened to contain NULL where type_name is stored

Fixes: 7d5e9737ef ("net: rfkill: gpio: get the name and type from device property")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hansg@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250913113515.21698-1-hansg@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2025-09-17 12:37:05 +02:00
..
Kconfig treewide: Add SPDX license identifier - Makefile/Kconfig 2019-05-21 10:50:46 +02:00
Makefile treewide: Add SPDX license identifier - Makefile/Kconfig 2019-05-21 10:50:46 +02:00
core.c [tree-wide] finally take no_llseek out 2024-09-27 08:18:43 -07:00
input.c rfkill: use DEFINE_SPINLOCK() for spinlock 2021-04-08 10:16:53 +02:00
rfkill-gpio.c net: rfkill: gpio: Fix crash due to dereferencering uninitialized pointer 2025-09-17 12:37:05 +02:00
rfkill.h treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 500 2019-06-19 17:09:55 +02:00