platform/x86: dell-wmi-sysman: fix a NULL pointer dereference

An upcoming Dell platform is causing a NULL pointer dereference
in dell-wmi-sysman initialization.  Validate that the input from
BIOS matches correct ACPI types and abort module initialization
if it fails.

Signed-off-by: Mario Limonciello <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Perry Yuan <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
[[email protected]: Drop redundant release_attributes_data() call]
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <[email protected]>

diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/dell-wmi-sysman/sysman.c b/drivers/platform/x86/dell-wmi-sysman/sysman.c
index dc6dd531c99642b1544db039336a91669967903d..cb81010ba1a21b108e76fd248ed8bb3ac79c8cb2 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/platform/x86/dell-wmi-sysman/sysman.c
+++ b/drivers/platform/x86/dell-wmi-sysman/sysman.c
@@ -419,13 +419,17 @@ static int init_bios_attributes(int attr_type, const char *guid)
                return retval;
        /* need to use specific instance_id and guid combination to get right data */
        obj = get_wmiobj_pointer(instance_id, guid);
-       if (!obj)
+       if (!obj || obj->type != ACPI_TYPE_PACKAGE)
                return -ENODEV;
        elements = obj->package.elements;
 
        mutex_lock(&wmi_priv.mutex);
        while (elements) {
                /* sanity checking */
+               if (elements[ATTR_NAME].type != ACPI_TYPE_STRING) {
+                       pr_debug("incorrect element type\n");
+                       goto nextobj;
+               }
                if (strlen(elements[ATTR_NAME].string.pointer) == 0) {
                        pr_debug("empty attribute found\n");
                        goto nextobj;