On Wed 19 Sep 22:22 PDT 2018, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> 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?
>
Hi Greg,
Yes, I found this issue while attempting to load the firmware and boot
one of the DSPs on one of my Qualcomm dev boards after v4.19-rc4 and it
can be reproduced on the upstream Dragonboard 820c.
Regards,
Bjorn
