In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

firmware: dmi-sysfs: Fix null-ptr-deref in dmi_sysfs_register_handle

KASAN reported a null-ptr-deref error:

KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000008-0x000000000000000f]
CPU: 0 PID: 1373 Comm: modprobe
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
RIP: 0010:dmi_sysfs_entry_release
...
Call Trace:

kobject_put
dmi_sysfs_register_handle (drivers/firmware/dmi-sysfs.c:540) dmi_sysfs
dmi_decode_table (drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c:133)
dmi_walk (drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c:1115)
dmi_sysfs_init (drivers/firmware/dmi-sysfs.c:149) dmi_sysfs
do_one_initcall (init/main.c:1296)
...
Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception
Kernel Offset: 0x4000000 from 0xffffffff81000000
---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception ]---

It is because previous patch added kobject_put() to release the memory
which will call dmi_sysfs_entry_release() and list_del().

However, list_add_tail(entry->list) is called after the error block,
so the list_head is uninitialized and cannot be deleted.

Move error handling to after list_add_tail to fix this.

References

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-53250
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/18e126e97c961f7a93823795c879d7c085fe5098
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5d0492d1d934642bdfd2057acc1b56f4b57be465
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b4fe158259fb5fead52ff2b55841ec5c39492604
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e851996b32264e78a10863c2ac41a8689d7b9252