4.2.8-ckt2 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
commit b7bb110008607a915298bf0f47d25886ecb94477 upstream.
Some users of rfkill, like NFC and cfg80211, use a dynamic name when
allocating rfkill, in those cases dev_name(). Therefore, the pointer
passed to rfkill_alloc() might not be valid forever, I specifically
found the case that the rfkill name was quite obviously an invalid
pointer (or at least garbage) when the wiphy had been renamed.
Fix this by making a copy of the rfkill name in rfkill_alloc().
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/rfkill/core.c | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/rfkill/core.c b/net/rfkill/core.c
index f12149a..31b5c63 100644
--- a/net/rfkill/core.c
+++ b/net/rfkill/core.c
@@ -49,7 +49,6 @@
struct rfkill {
spinlock_t lock;
- const char *name;
enum rfkill_type type;
unsigned long state;
@@ -73,6 +72,7 @@ struct rfkill {
struct delayed_work poll_work;
struct work_struct uevent_work;
struct work_struct sync_work;
+ char name[];
};
#define to_rfkill(d) container_of(d, struct rfkill, dev)
@@ -868,14 +868,14 @@ struct rfkill * __must_check rfkill_alloc(const char *name,
if (WARN_ON(type == RFKILL_TYPE_ALL || type >= NUM_RFKILL_TYPES))
return NULL;
- rfkill = kzalloc(sizeof(*rfkill), GFP_KERNEL);
+ rfkill = kzalloc(sizeof(*rfkill) + strlen(name) + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!rfkill)
return NULL;
spin_lock_init(&rfkill->lock);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&rfkill->node);
rfkill->type = type;
- rfkill->name = name;
+ strcpy(rfkill->name, name);
rfkill->ops = ops;
rfkill->data = ops_data;
--
1.9.1
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