On Mon, Oct 01, 2018 at 11:32:16AM -0700, Bjorn Andersson wrote:
> On Mon 01 Oct 11:18 PDT 2018, Luis Chamberlain wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Oct 01, 2018 at 03:27:03PM +0200, Niklas Cassel wrote:
> > > On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 12:34:15AM -0700, Bjorn Andersson wrote:
> > > > On Wed 19 Sep 22:22 PDT 2018, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 06:09:38PM -0700, Bjorn Andersson wrote:
> > > > > > When freeing the fw_priv the item is taken off the list. This causes an
> > > > > > oops in the FW_OPT_NOCACHE case as the list object is not initialized.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Make sure to initialize the list object regardless of this flag.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Fixes: 422b3db2a503 ("firmware: Fix security issue with request_firmware_into_buf()")
> > > > > > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > > > > Cc: Rishabh Bhatnagar <rishabhb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > > > Signed-off-by: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > > > ---
> > > > > > drivers/base/firmware_loader/main.c | 7 +++++--
> > > > > > 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > > > >
> > > > > Is this being triggered by some hardware somewhere today? Or is this
> > > > > just a fix found by code inspection?
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > Hi Greg,
> > > >
> > > > Yes, I found this issue while attempting to load the firmware and boot
> > > > one of the DSPs on one of my Qualcomm dev boards after v4.19-rc4 and it
> > > > can be reproduced on the upstream Dragonboard 820c.
> > >
> > > I still see this issue on v4.19-rc6.
> > >
> > > It would be nice if this fix gets merged before v4.19 gets released.
> >
> > This is the first I hear of this and this patch, so you should re-send
> > it and I can review it. Also please Cc Rishabh.
> >
> > Rishabh, had you heard of this and can you confirm as well as
> > 422b3db2a503 was your commit?
> >
>
> Thanks Luis,
>
> It seems like Greg did pick the patch yesterday [1], so hopefully he
> sends himself a pull request this week for inclusion in v4.19-rc7.
>
> [1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc.git/log/?h=char-misc-linus
The patch looks good. Next time please send patches to the maintainer as
well.
Luis
