On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 06:09:38PM -0700, Bjorn Andersson wrote:
> When freeing the fw_priv the item is taken off the list. This causes an
> oops in the FW_OPT_NOCACHE case as the list object is not initialized.
>
> Make sure to initialize the list object regardless of this flag.
>
> Fixes: 422b3db2a503 ("firmware: Fix security issue with request_firmware_into_buf()")
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: Rishabh Bhatnagar <rishabhb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/base/firmware_loader/main.c | 7 +++++--
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
Is this being triggered by some hardware somewhere today? Or is this
just a fix found by code inspection?
thanks,
greg k-h
