Bug 2400761 - kernel: nfs: fix possible null-ptr-deref when parsing param
Summary: kernel: nfs: fix possible null-ptr-deref when parsing param
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Status: NEW
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Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability-draft
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-10-01 12:05 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-10-16 17:57 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-10-01 12:05:57 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

nfs: fix possible null-ptr-deref when parsing param

According to commit "vfs: parse: deal with zero length string value",
kernel will set the param->string to null pointer in vfs_parse_fs_string()
if fs string has zero length.

Yet the problem is that, nfs_fs_context_parse_param() will dereferences the
param->string, without checking whether it is a null pointer, which may
trigger a null-ptr-deref bug.

This patch solves it by adding sanity check on param->string
in nfs_fs_context_parse_param().


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