The patch titled
Subject: firewire: add minor number range check to fw_device_init()
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
firewire-add-minor-number-range-check-to-fw_device_init.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree
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From: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: firewire: add minor number range check to fw_device_init()
fw_device_init() didn't check whether the allocated minor number isn't
too large. Fail if it goes overflows MINORBITS.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Suggested-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/firewire/core-device.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff -puN drivers/firewire/core-device.c~firewire-add-minor-number-range-check-to-fw_device_init drivers/firewire/core-device.c
--- a/drivers/firewire/core-device.c~firewire-add-minor-number-range-check-to-fw_device_init
+++ a/drivers/firewire/core-device.c
@@ -1020,6 +1020,10 @@ static void fw_device_init(struct work_s
ret = idr_pre_get(&fw_device_idr, GFP_KERNEL) ?
idr_get_new(&fw_device_idr, device, &minor) :
-ENOMEM;
+ if (minor >= 1 << MINORBITS) {
+ idr_remove(&fw_device_idr, minor);
+ minor = -ENOSPC;
+ }
up_write(&fw_device_rwsem);
if (ret < 0)
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from tj@xxxxxxxxxx are
origin.patch
linux-next.patch
slub-correctly-bootstrap-boot-caches.patch
block-restore-proc-partitions-to-not-display-non-partitionable-removable-devices.patch
coredump-only-sigkill-should-interrupt-the-coredumping-task.patch
coredump-ensure-that-sigkill-always-kills-the-dumping-thread.patch
coredump-sanitize-the-setting-of-signal-group_exit_code.patch
coredump-factor-out-the-setting-of-pf_dumpcore.patch
freezer-do-not-send-a-fake-signal-to-a-pf_dumpcore-thread.patch
coredump-make-wait_for_dump_helpers-freezable.patch
nfsd-idr_destroy-no-longer-needs-idr_remove_all.patch
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