CVE-2021-47202

thermal: Fix NULL pointer dereferences in of_thermal_ functions

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Apr 10, 2024
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
Mar 25, 2024

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Description

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

thermal: Fix NULL pointer dereferences in of_thermal_ functions

of_parse_thermal_zones() parses the thermal-zones node and registers a thermal_zone device for each subnode. However, if a thermal zone is consuming a thermal sensor and that thermal sensor device hasn't probed yet, an attempt to set trip_point_*_temp for that thermal zone device can cause a NULL pointer dereference. Fix it.

console:/sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone87 # echo 120000 > trip_point_0_temp ... Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000020 ... Call trace: of_thermal_set_trip_temp+0x40/0xc4 trip_point_temp_store+0xc0/0x1dc dev_attr_store+0x38/0x88 sysfs_kf_write+0x64/0xc0 kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x108/0x1d0 vfs_write+0x2f4/0x368 ksys_write+0x7c/0xec __arm64_sys_write+0x20/0x30 el0_svc_common.llvm.7279915941325364641+0xbc/0x1bc do_el0_svc+0x28/0xa0 el0_svc+0x14/0x24 el0_sync_handler+0x88/0xec el0_sync+0x1c0/0x200

While at it, fix the possible NULL pointer dereference in other functions as well: of_thermal_get_temp(), of_thermal_set_emul_temp(), of_thermal_get_trend().

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 2251aef64a38db60f4ae7a4a83f9203c6791f196 to before 828f4c31684da94ecf0b44a2cbd35bbede04f0bdAffected
  • 2251aef64a38db60f4ae7a4a83f9203c6791f196 to before 6a315471cb6a07f651e1d3adc8962730f4fcccacAffected
  • 2251aef64a38db60f4ae7a4a83f9203c6791f196 to before 0750f769b95841b34a9fe8c418dd792ff526bf86Affected
  • 2251aef64a38db60f4ae7a4a83f9203c6791f196 to before ef2590a5305e0b8e9342f84c2214aa478ee7f28eAffected
  • 2251aef64a38db60f4ae7a4a83f9203c6791f196 to before 96cfe05051fd8543cdedd6807ec59a0e6c409195Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 3.19Affected
  • before 3.19Not affected
  • 5.4.210 through 5.4.*Not affected
  • 5.10.81 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.14.21 through 5.14.*Not affected
  • 5.15.4 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 5.16 and laterNot affected

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