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watchdog: Fix potential dereferencing of null pointer
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A reboot notifier, which stops the WDT by calling the stop hook without
any check, would be registered when we set WDOG_STOP_ON_REBOOT flag.

Howerer we allow the WDT driver to omit the stop hook since commit
"d0684c8a93549" ("watchdog: Make stop function optional") and provide
a module parameter for user that controls the WDOG_STOP_ON_REBOOT flag
in commit 9232c80 ("watchdog: Add stop_on_reboot parameter to
control reboot policy"). Together that commits make user potential to
insert a watchdog driver that don't provide a stop hook but with the
stop_on_reboot parameter set, then dereferencing of null pointer occurs
on system reboot.

Check the stop hook before registering the reboot notifier to fix the
issue.

Fixes: d0684c8 ("watchdog: Make stop function optional")
Signed-off-by: Wang Wensheng <wangwensheng4@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201109130512.28121-1-wangwensheng4@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@linux-watchdog.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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Wang Wensheng authored and gregkh committed Dec 30, 2020
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22 changes: 13 additions & 9 deletions drivers/watchdog/watchdog_core.c
Expand Up @@ -267,15 +267,19 @@ static int __watchdog_register_device(struct watchdog_device *wdd)
}

if (test_bit(WDOG_STOP_ON_REBOOT, &wdd->status)) {
wdd->reboot_nb.notifier_call = watchdog_reboot_notifier;

ret = register_reboot_notifier(&wdd->reboot_nb);
if (ret) {
pr_err("watchdog%d: Cannot register reboot notifier (%d)\n",
wdd->id, ret);
watchdog_dev_unregister(wdd);
ida_simple_remove(&watchdog_ida, id);
return ret;
if (!wdd->ops->stop)
pr_warn("watchdog%d: stop_on_reboot not supported\n", wdd->id);
else {
wdd->reboot_nb.notifier_call = watchdog_reboot_notifier;

ret = register_reboot_notifier(&wdd->reboot_nb);
if (ret) {
pr_err("watchdog%d: Cannot register reboot notifier (%d)\n",
wdd->id, ret);
watchdog_dev_unregister(wdd);
ida_simple_remove(&watchdog_ida, id);
return ret;
}
}
}

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