This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
[media] cx25840: fix unchecked return values
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:
cx25840-fix-unchecked-return-values.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 foo@baz Mon Apr 9 17:09:24 CEST 2018
From: Pan Bian <bianpan2016@xxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2017 10:06:36 -0300
Subject: [media] cx25840: fix unchecked return values
From: Pan Bian <bianpan2016@xxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 35378ce143071c2a6bad4b59a000e9b9f8f6ea67 ]
In functions cx25840_initialize(), cx231xx_initialize(), and
cx23885_initialize(), the return value of create_singlethread_workqueue()
is used without validation. This may result in NULL dereference and cause
kernel crash. This patch fixes it.
Signed-off-by: Pan Bian <bianpan2016@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/media/i2c/cx25840/cx25840-core.c | 36 ++++++++++++++++++-------------
1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/media/i2c/cx25840/cx25840-core.c
+++ b/drivers/media/i2c/cx25840/cx25840-core.c
@@ -420,11 +420,13 @@ static void cx25840_initialize(struct i2
INIT_WORK(&state->fw_work, cx25840_work_handler);
init_waitqueue_head(&state->fw_wait);
q = create_singlethread_workqueue("cx25840_fw");
- prepare_to_wait(&state->fw_wait, &wait, TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
- queue_work(q, &state->fw_work);
- schedule();
- finish_wait(&state->fw_wait, &wait);
- destroy_workqueue(q);
+ if (q) {
+ prepare_to_wait(&state->fw_wait, &wait, TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
+ queue_work(q, &state->fw_work);
+ schedule();
+ finish_wait(&state->fw_wait, &wait);
+ destroy_workqueue(q);
+ }
/* 6. */
cx25840_write(client, 0x115, 0x8c);
@@ -634,11 +636,13 @@ static void cx23885_initialize(struct i2
INIT_WORK(&state->fw_work, cx25840_work_handler);
init_waitqueue_head(&state->fw_wait);
q = create_singlethread_workqueue("cx25840_fw");
- prepare_to_wait(&state->fw_wait, &wait, TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
- queue_work(q, &state->fw_work);
- schedule();
- finish_wait(&state->fw_wait, &wait);
- destroy_workqueue(q);
+ if (q) {
+ prepare_to_wait(&state->fw_wait, &wait, TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
+ queue_work(q, &state->fw_work);
+ schedule();
+ finish_wait(&state->fw_wait, &wait);
+ destroy_workqueue(q);
+ }
/* Call the cx23888 specific std setup func, we no longer rely on
* the generic cx24840 func.
@@ -752,11 +756,13 @@ static void cx231xx_initialize(struct i2
INIT_WORK(&state->fw_work, cx25840_work_handler);
init_waitqueue_head(&state->fw_wait);
q = create_singlethread_workqueue("cx25840_fw");
- prepare_to_wait(&state->fw_wait, &wait, TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
- queue_work(q, &state->fw_work);
- schedule();
- finish_wait(&state->fw_wait, &wait);
- destroy_workqueue(q);
+ if (q) {
+ prepare_to_wait(&state->fw_wait, &wait, TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
+ queue_work(q, &state->fw_work);
+ schedule();
+ finish_wait(&state->fw_wait, &wait);
+ destroy_workqueue(q);
+ }
cx25840_std_setup(client);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from bianpan2016@xxxxxxx are
queue-4.9/cx25840-fix-unchecked-return-values.patch
queue-4.9/usb-dwc3-keystone-check-return-value.patch
queue-4.9/rtc-snvs-fix-an-incorrect-check-of-return-value.patch