3.13.11-ckt33 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ---8<------------------------------------------------------------ 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 1bacc10..5a14f55 100644 --- a/net/rfkill/core.c +++ b/net/rfkill/core.c @@ -51,7 +51,6 @@ struct rfkill { spinlock_t lock; - const char *name; enum rfkill_type type; unsigned long state; @@ -75,6 +74,7 @@ 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) @@ -863,14 +863,14 @@ 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html