According to the include/linux/watchdog.h WDIOC_SETOPTIONS is classified as 'read from device' ioctl call: #define WDIOC_SETOPTIONS _IOR(WATCHDOG_IOCTL_BASE, 4, int) However, the driver 'mpcore_wdt' performs 'copy_from_user' only if _IOC_WRITE is set, thus the local variable 'uarg' which is used in WDIOC_SETOPTIONS handling remains uninitialized. The proper way to fix this is to bind WDIOC_SETOPTIONS to _IOW, but this will break compatibility. So adding additional condition for performing 'copy_from_user'. Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuzmichev <vkuzmichev@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/watchdog/mpcore_wdt.c | 3 ++- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/mpcore_wdt.c b/drivers/watchdog/mpcore_wdt.c index 7a3d6b2..b330a0a 100644 --- a/drivers/watchdog/mpcore_wdt.c +++ b/drivers/watchdog/mpcore_wdt.c @@ -240,7 +240,8 @@ static long mpcore_wdt_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, if (_IOC_DIR(cmd) && _IOC_SIZE(cmd) > sizeof(uarg)) return -ENOTTY; - if (_IOC_DIR(cmd) & _IOC_WRITE) { + if (_IOC_DIR(cmd) & _IOC_WRITE + || cmd == WDIOC_SETOPTIONS) { ret = copy_from_user(&uarg, (void __user *)arg, _IOC_SIZE(cmd)); if (ret) return -EFAULT; -- 1.7.3.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-watchdog" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html