This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
staging: comedi: jr3_pci: fix possible null pointer dereference
to the 4.9-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:
staging-comedi-jr3_pci-fix-possible-null-pointer-dereference.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 45292be0b3db0b7f8286683b376e2d9f949d11f9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ian Abbott <abbotti@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2017 11:09:08 +0000
Subject: staging: comedi: jr3_pci: fix possible null pointer dereference
From: Ian Abbott <abbotti@xxxxxxxxx>
commit 45292be0b3db0b7f8286683b376e2d9f949d11f9 upstream.
For some reason, the driver does not consider allocation of the
subdevice private data to be a fatal error when attaching the COMEDI
device. It tests the subdevice private data pointer for validity at
certain points, but omits some crucial tests. In particular,
`jr3_pci_auto_attach()` calls `jr3_pci_alloc_spriv()` to allocate and
initialize the subdevice private data, but the same function
subsequently dereferences the pointer to access the `next_time_min` and
`next_time_max` members without checking it first. The other missing
test is in the timer expiry routine `jr3_pci_poll_dev()`, but it will
crash before it gets that far.
Fix the bug by returning `-ENOMEM` from `jr3_pci_auto_attach()` as soon
as one of the calls to `jr3_pci_alloc_spriv()` returns `NULL`. The
COMEDI core will subsequently call `jr3_pci_detach()` to clean up.
Signed-off-by: Ian Abbott <abbotti@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/jr3_pci.c | 11 ++++++-----
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/jr3_pci.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/jr3_pci.c
@@ -727,11 +727,12 @@ static int jr3_pci_auto_attach(struct co
s->insn_read = jr3_pci_ai_insn_read;
spriv = jr3_pci_alloc_spriv(dev, s);
- if (spriv) {
- /* Channel specific range and maxdata */
- s->range_table_list = spriv->range_table_list;
- s->maxdata_list = spriv->maxdata_list;
- }
+ if (!spriv)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+
+ /* Channel specific range and maxdata */
+ s->range_table_list = spriv->range_table_list;
+ s->maxdata_list = spriv->maxdata_list;
}
/* Reset DSP card */
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from abbotti@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.9/staging-comedi-jr3_pci-fix-possible-null-pointer-dereference.patch
queue-4.9/staging-comedi-jr3_pci-cope-with-jiffies-wraparound.patch