On Fri 2018-03-09 12:50:50, Mark Brown wrote: > On Thu, Mar 08, 2018 at 12:06:53PM -0800, Kees Cook wrote: > > > If a codec is not attached to the sound soc, a NULL deref is possible as a > > regular user in /sys. > > I can't parse this, sorry. What is the "sound soc"? > > > +++ b/sound/soc/soc-core.c > > @@ -137,6 +137,9 @@ static ssize_t soc_codec_reg_show(struct snd_soc_codec *codec, char *buf, > > size_t total = 0; > > loff_t p = 0; > > > > + if (!codec || !codec->driver) > > + return 0; > > + > > How are we managing to create a sysfs file for a CODEC which doesn't > have a CODEC struct associated with it? That is obviously nonsensical > and suggests we've got some more serious problem going on here - if > there's no CODEC those sysfs attributes simply shouldn't be there. Look for "linux-next on n900: oops in codec_reg_show() when grepping sysfs" ... should be in your inbox. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html
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