On Fri, Jun 06, 2025 at 10:35:24PM +0300, Mikhail Kshevetskiy wrote:

> This fix possible NULL pointer dereference.
> Also some comments added about potential memory leak.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mikhail Kshevetskiy <[email protected]>
> ---
>  common/spl/spl_fit.c | 18 +++++++++++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/common/spl/spl_fit.c b/common/spl/spl_fit.c
> index 783bb84bdb5..438d1ecf124 100644
> --- a/common/spl/spl_fit.c
> +++ b/common/spl/spl_fit.c
> @@ -703,13 +703,29 @@ static int spl_simple_fit_read(struct spl_fit_info *ctx,
>        */
>       size = get_aligned_image_size(info, size, 0);
>       buf = board_spl_fit_buffer_addr(size, size, 1);
> +     if (!buf)
> +             return -EIO;
>  
>       count = info->read(info, offset, size, buf);
> +     if (!count) {
> +             /*
> +              * The memory allocated by board_spl_fit_buffer_addr()
> +              * should be freed. Unfortunately, we don't know what
> +              * memory allocation mechanism was used, so we'll hope
> +              * for the best and leave it as is.
> +              *
> +              * To somewhat reduce memory consumption, one can try
> +              * to reuse previously allocated memory as it's done in
> +              * board_spl_fit_buffer_addr() from test/image/spl_load.c
> +              */
> +             return -EIO;
> +     }
> +
>       ctx->fit = buf;
>       debug("fit read offset %lx, size=%lu, dst=%p, count=%lu\n",
>             offset, size, buf, count);
>  
> -     return (count == 0) ? -EIO : 0;
> +     return 0;
>  }
>  
>  static int spl_simple_fit_parse(struct spl_fit_info *ctx)

Since you have a good comment in here can you please elaborate more in
the commit message, thanks.

-- 
Tom

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