In the instantiation of the fan1_input device attribute, NULL is passed as set function to store_sys_hwmon. The function pointer is never checked before dereferencing it. This is fine if we can guarantee that it will never be called with an invalid pointer, but we can't. If someone from user space decides to change the permissions on this attribute and write to it, kernel will crash. Introduce EEEPC_CREATE_SENSOR_ATTR_RO() to instantiate a read-only attribute, and declare fan1_input with it. This ensures store_sys_hwmon is never called with NULL parameters. If someone tries to write the attribute, the system will at least keep its sanity. Signed-off-by: Frans Klaver <fransklaver@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/platform/x86/eeepc-laptop.c | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/eeepc-laptop.c b/drivers/platform/x86/eeepc-laptop.c index fbaa4d5..47488d3 100644 --- a/drivers/platform/x86/eeepc-laptop.c +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/eeepc-laptop.c @@ -1060,7 +1060,11 @@ static ssize_t show_sys_hwmon(int (*get)(void), char *buf) EEEPC_SENSOR_STORE_FUNC(_name, _set) \ static DEVICE_ATTR(_name, _mode, show_##_name, store_##_name) -EEEPC_CREATE_SENSOR_ATTR(fan1_input, S_IRUGO, eeepc_get_fan_rpm, NULL); +#define EEEPC_CREATE_SENSOR_ATTR_RO(_name, _mode, _get) \ + EEEPC_SENSOR_SHOW_FUNC(_name, _get) \ + static DEVICE_ATTR(_name, _mode, show_##_name, NULL) + +EEEPC_CREATE_SENSOR_ATTR_RO(fan1_input, S_IRUGO, eeepc_get_fan_rpm); EEEPC_CREATE_SENSOR_ATTR(pwm1, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR, eeepc_get_fan_pwm, eeepc_set_fan_pwm); EEEPC_CREATE_SENSOR_ATTR(pwm1_enable, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR, -- 2.1.0 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe platform-driver-x86" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html