CVE-2024-43875 Information

Description

In the Linux kernel the following vulnerability has been resolved:

PCI: endpoint: Clean up error handling in vpci_scan_bus()

Smatch complains about inconsistent NULL checking in vpci_scan_bus():

drivers/pci/endpoint/functions/pci-epf-vntb.c:1024 vpci_scan_bus() error: we previously assumed 'vpci_bus' could be null (see line 1021)

Instead of printing an error message and then crashing we should return an error code and clean up.

Also the NULL check is reversed so it prints an error for success instead of failure.

Reference

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/24414c842a24d0fd498f9db6d2a762a8dddf1832 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7d368de78b60088ec9031c60c88976c0063ea4c0 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0e27e2e8697b8ce96cdef43f135426525d9d1f8f https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b9e8695246bcfc028341470cbf92630cdc1ba36b https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8e0f5a96c534f781e8c57ca30459448b3bfe5429