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| author | Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> | 2012-01-02 15:31:23 -0500 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2012-01-04 16:31:29 -0800 |
| commit | eea915bb0d1358755f151eaefb8208a2d5f3e10c (patch) | |
| tree | 35d593bde3caa1b79751e0ec1a6c6333b2a72506 /drivers/base/firmware_class.c | |
| parent | 8f257a142fc3868d69de3f996b95d7bdbc509560 (diff) | |
firmware: Fix an oops on reading fw_priv->fw in sysfs loading file
This oops was reported recently:
firmware_loading_store+0xf9/0x17b
dev_attr_store+0x20/0x22
sysfs_write_file+0x101/0x134
vfs_write+0xac/0xf3
sys_write+0x4a/0x6e
system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
The complete backtrace was unfortunately not captured, but details can be found
here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=769920
The cause is fairly clear.
Its caused by the fact that firmware_loading_store has a case 0 in its
switch statement that reads and writes the fw_priv->fw poniter without the
protection of the fw_lock mutex. since there is a window between the time that
_request_firmware sets fw_priv->fw to NULL and the time the corresponding sysfs
file is unregistered, its possible for a user space application to race in, and
write a zero to the loading file, causing a NULL dereference in
firmware_loading_store. Fix it by extending the protection of the fw_lock mutex
to cover all of the firware_loading_store function.
Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/base/firmware_class.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/base/firmware_class.c | 14 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/base/firmware_class.c b/drivers/base/firmware_class.c index 06ed6b4e7df..3719c94be19 100644 --- a/drivers/base/firmware_class.c +++ b/drivers/base/firmware_class.c @@ -226,13 +226,13 @@ static ssize_t firmware_loading_store(struct device *dev, int loading = simple_strtol(buf, NULL, 10); int i; + mutex_lock(&fw_lock); + + if (!fw_priv->fw) + goto out; + switch (loading) { case 1: - mutex_lock(&fw_lock); - if (!fw_priv->fw) { - mutex_unlock(&fw_lock); - break; - } firmware_free_data(fw_priv->fw); memset(fw_priv->fw, 0, sizeof(struct firmware)); /* If the pages are not owned by 'struct firmware' */ @@ -243,7 +243,6 @@ static ssize_t firmware_loading_store(struct device *dev, fw_priv->page_array_size = 0; fw_priv->nr_pages = 0; set_bit(FW_STATUS_LOADING, &fw_priv->status); - mutex_unlock(&fw_lock); break; case 0: if (test_bit(FW_STATUS_LOADING, &fw_priv->status)) { @@ -274,7 +273,8 @@ static ssize_t firmware_loading_store(struct device *dev, fw_load_abort(fw_priv); break; } - +out: + mutex_unlock(&fw_lock); return count; } |