title: dmaengine: idxd: Fix potential null dereference on pointer status
description: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
dmaengine: idxd: Fix potential null dereference on pointer status
There are calls to idxd_cmd_exec that pass a null status pointer however
a recent commit has added an assignment to *status that can end up
with a null pointer dereference.  The function expects a null status
pointer sometimes as there is a later assignment to *status where
status is first null checked.  Fix the issue by null checking status
before making the assignment.
Addresses-Coverity: ("Explicit null dereferenced")
affected:
{
product: Linux
vendor: Linux
defaultStatus: unaffected
repo: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
versions:
version: 40e3b5c12864, lessThan: 5756f757c725, status: affected, versionType: git
version: 89e3becd8f82, lessThan: 2280b4cc29d8, status: affected, versionType: git
version: 89e3becd8f82, lessThan: 7bc402f843e7, status: affected, versionType: git
version: 89e3becd8f82, lessThan: 28ac8e03c43d, status: affected, versionType: git
}
{
product: Linux
vendor: Linux
defaultStatus: affected
repo: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
versions:
version: 5.11, status: affected
version: 0, lessThan: 5.11, status: unaffected, versionType: custom
version: 5.10.38, lessThanOrEqual: 5.10.*, status: unaffected, versionType: custom
version: 5.11.22, lessThanOrEqual: 5.11.*, status: unaffected, versionType: custom
version: 5.12.5, lessThanOrEqual: 5.12.*, status: unaffected, versionType: custom
version: 5.13, lessThanOrEqual: *, status: unaffected, versionType: original_commit_for_fix
}
