This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
carl9170: fix debugfs crashes
to the 4.7-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
carl9170-fix-debugfs-crashes.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.7 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 6ee6d1cb391ca85b419f8d18bdfb1f020a5e859c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2016 18:49:36 +0200
Subject: carl9170: fix debugfs crashes
From: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit 6ee6d1cb391ca85b419f8d18bdfb1f020a5e859c upstream.
Ben Greear reported:
> I see lots of instability as soon as I load up the carl9710 NIC.
> My application is going to be poking at it's debugfs files...
>
> BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in carl9170_debugfs_read+0xd5/0x2a0
> [carl9170] at addr 0xffff8801bc1208b0
> Read of size 8 by task btserver/5888
> =======================================================================
> BUG kmalloc-256 (Tainted: G W ): kasan: bad access detected
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> INFO: Allocated in seq_open+0x50/0x100 age=2690 cpu=2 pid=772
>...
This breakage was caused by the introduction of intermediate
fops in debugfs by commit 9fd4dcece43a
("debugfs: prevent access to possibly dead file_operations at file open")
Thankfully, the original/real fops are still available in d_fsdata.
Reported-by: Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/debug.c | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/debug.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/debug.c
@@ -75,7 +75,8 @@ static ssize_t carl9170_debugfs_read(str
if (!ar)
return -ENODEV;
- dfops = container_of(file->f_op, struct carl9170_debugfs_fops, fops);
+ dfops = container_of(debugfs_real_fops(file),
+ struct carl9170_debugfs_fops, fops);
if (!dfops->read)
return -ENOSYS;
@@ -127,7 +128,8 @@ static ssize_t carl9170_debugfs_write(st
if (!ar)
return -ENODEV;
- dfops = container_of(file->f_op, struct carl9170_debugfs_fops, fops);
+ dfops = container_of(debugfs_real_fops(file),
+ struct carl9170_debugfs_fops, fops);
if (!dfops->write)
return -ENOSYS;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from chunkeey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.7/b43-fix-debugfs-crash.patch
queue-4.7/carl9170-fix-debugfs-crashes.patch
queue-4.7/b43legacy-fix-debugfs-crash.patch
queue-4.7/debugfs-introduce-a-public-file_operations-accessor.patch
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