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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-07-09 11:20:01 -0700
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2015-08-03 09:29:47 -0700
commit27dbfee9cffffa812e56f8a1a2f84f91d1d9ad63 (patch)
tree4bacd96eece92f0faad93739331746f297ca7fbc
parentc0e05f1c65358e9b770cebaf05200bb6243c28e5 (diff)
Fix firmware loader uevent buffer NULL pointer dereference
commit 6f957724b94cb19f5c1c97efd01dd4df8ced323c upstream. The firmware class uevent function accessed the "fw_priv->buf" buffer without the proper locking and testing for NULL. This is an old bug (looks like it goes back to 2012 and commit 1244691c73b2: "firmware loader: introduce firmware_buf"), but for some reason it's triggering only now in 4.2-rc1. Shuah Khan is trying to bisect what it is that causes this to trigger more easily, but in the meantime let's just fix the bug since others are hitting it too (at least Ingo reports having seen it as well). Reported-and-tested-by: Shuah Khan <shuahkh@osg.samsung.com> Acked-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
-rw-r--r--drivers/base/firmware_class.c16
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/base/firmware_class.c b/drivers/base/firmware_class.c
index 00a565676583..8e08fab0ed2e 100644
--- a/drivers/base/firmware_class.c
+++ b/drivers/base/firmware_class.c
@@ -513,10 +513,8 @@ static void fw_dev_release(struct device *dev)
module_put(THIS_MODULE);
}
-static int firmware_uevent(struct device *dev, struct kobj_uevent_env *env)
+static int do_firmware_uevent(struct firmware_priv *fw_priv, struct kobj_uevent_env *env)
{
- struct firmware_priv *fw_priv = to_firmware_priv(dev);
-
if (add_uevent_var(env, "FIRMWARE=%s", fw_priv->buf->fw_id))
return -ENOMEM;
if (add_uevent_var(env, "TIMEOUT=%i", loading_timeout))
@@ -527,6 +525,18 @@ static int firmware_uevent(struct device *dev, struct kobj_uevent_env *env)
return 0;
}
+static int firmware_uevent(struct device *dev, struct kobj_uevent_env *env)
+{
+ struct firmware_priv *fw_priv = to_firmware_priv(dev);
+ int err = 0;
+
+ mutex_lock(&fw_lock);
+ if (fw_priv->buf)
+ err = do_firmware_uevent(fw_priv, env);
+ mutex_unlock(&fw_lock);
+ return err;
+}
+
static struct class firmware_class = {
.name = "firmware",
.class_attrs = firmware_class_attrs,