CVE-2023-53480

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br /> <br /> kobject: Add sanity check for kset-&gt;kobj.ktype in kset_register()<br /> <br /> When I register a kset in the following way:<br /> static struct kset my_kset;<br /> kobject_set_name(&amp;my_kset.kobj, "my_kset");<br /> ret = kset_register(&amp;my_kset);<br /> <br /> A null pointer dereference exception is occurred:<br /> [ 4453.568337] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at \<br /> virtual address 0000000000000028<br /> ... ...<br /> [ 4453.810361] Call trace:<br /> [ 4453.813062] kobject_get_ownership+0xc/0x34<br /> [ 4453.817493] kobject_add_internal+0x98/0x274<br /> [ 4453.822005] kset_register+0x5c/0xb4<br /> [ 4453.825820] my_kobj_init+0x44/0x1000 [my_kset]<br /> ... ...<br /> <br /> Because I didn&amp;#39;t initialize my_kset.kobj.ktype.<br /> <br /> According to the description in Documentation/core-api/kobject.rst:<br /> - A ktype is the type of object that embeds a kobject. Every structure<br /> that embeds a kobject needs a corresponding ktype.<br /> <br /> So add sanity check to make sure kset-&gt;kobj.ktype is not NULL.