[PATCH] firmware: arm_scmi: Fix late checks on pointer dereference

Cristian Marussi cristian.marussi at arm.com
Tue May 3 05:10:47 PDT 2022


A few dereferences could happen before the iterator pointer argument was
checked for NULL, causing the following smatch warnings:

drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/driver.c:1214 scmi_iterator_run() warn: variable
dereferenced before check 'i' (see line 1210)

Fix by moving the checks early and dropping some unneeded local references.

No functional change.

Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp at intel.com>
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Cristian Marussi <cristian.marussi at arm.com>
---
 drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/driver.c | 19 +++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/driver.c b/drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/driver.c
index c4960fd3df75..c1922bd650ae 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/driver.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/driver.c
@@ -1205,18 +1205,21 @@ static void *scmi_iterator_init(const struct scmi_protocol_handle *ph,
 static int scmi_iterator_run(void *iter)
 {
 	int ret = -EINVAL;
+	struct scmi_iterator_ops *iops;
+	const struct scmi_protocol_handle *ph;
+	struct scmi_iterator_state *st;
 	struct scmi_iterator *i = iter;
-	struct scmi_iterator_state *st = &i->state;
-	struct scmi_iterator_ops *iops = i->ops;
-	const struct scmi_protocol_handle *ph = i->ph;
-	const struct scmi_xfer_ops *xops = ph->xops;
 
-	if (!i)
+	if (!i || !i->ops || !i->ph)
 		return ret;
 
+	iops = i->ops;
+	ph = i->ph;
+	st = &i->state;
+
 	do {
 		iops->prepare_message(i->msg, st->desc_index, i->priv);
-		ret = xops->do_xfer(ph, i->t);
+		ret = ph->xops->do_xfer(ph, i->t);
 		if (ret)
 			break;
 
@@ -1240,7 +1243,7 @@ static int scmi_iterator_run(void *iter)
 		}
 
 		st->desc_index += st->num_returned;
-		xops->reset_rx_to_maxsz(ph, i->t);
+		ph->xops->reset_rx_to_maxsz(ph, i->t);
 		/*
 		 * check for both returned and remaining to avoid infinite
 		 * loop due to buggy firmware
@@ -1249,7 +1252,7 @@ static int scmi_iterator_run(void *iter)
 
 out:
 	/* Finalize and destroy iterator */
-	xops->xfer_put(ph, i->t);
+	ph->xops->xfer_put(ph, i->t);
 	devm_kfree(ph->dev, i);
 
 	return ret;
-- 
2.32.0




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