This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
staging: comedi: (regression) channel list must be set for COMEDI_CMD
to my staging git tree which can be found at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging.git
in the staging-linus branch.
The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree
(usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.)
The patch will hopefully also be merged in Linus's tree for the
next -rc kernel release.
If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.
>From 6cab7a37f5c048bb2a768f24b0ec748b052fda09 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ian Abbott <abbotti@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2014 16:09:14 +0100
Subject: staging: comedi: (regression) channel list must be set for COMEDI_CMD
ioctl
`do_cmd_ioctl()`, the handler for the `COMEDI_CMD` ioctl can incorrectly
call the Comedi subdevice's `do_cmd()` handler with a NULL channel list
pointer. This is a regression as the `do_cmd()` handler has never been
expected to deal with that, leading to a kernel OOPS when it tries to
dereference it.
A NULL channel list pointer is allowed for the `COMEDI_CMDTEST` ioctl,
handled by `do_cmdtest_ioctl()` and the subdevice's `do_cmdtest()`
handler, but not for the `COMEDI_CMD` ioctl and its handlers.
Both `do_cmd_ioctl()` and `do_cmdtest_ioctl()` call
`__comedi_get_user_chanlist()` to copy the channel list from user memory
into dynamically allocated kernel memory and check it for consistency.
That function currently returns 0 if the `user_chanlist` parameter
(pointing to the channel list in user memory) is NULL. That's fine for
`do_cmdtest_ioctl()`, but `do_cmd_ioctl()` incorrectly assumes the
kernel copy of the channel list has been set-up correctly.
Fix it by not allowing the `user_chanlist` parameter to be NULL in
`__comedi_get_user_chanlist()`, and only calling it from
`do_cmdtest_ioctl()` if the parameter is non-NULL.
Thanks to Bernd Porr for reporting the bug via an initial patch sent
privately.
Fixes: c6cd0eefb27b ("staging: comedi: comedi_fops: introduce __comedi_get_user_chanlist()")
Reported-by: Bernd Porr <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ian Abbott <abbotti@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Bernd Porr <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 3.15.y 3.16.y 3.17.y
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c | 15 +++++++--------
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c b/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c
index 495969f46e76..a9b7fe52d380 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c
@@ -1462,10 +1462,6 @@ static int __comedi_get_user_chanlist(struct comedi_device *dev,
unsigned int *chanlist;
int ret;
- /* user_chanlist could be NULL for do_cmdtest ioctls */
- if (!user_chanlist)
- return 0;
-
chanlist = memdup_user(user_chanlist,
cmd->chanlist_len * sizeof(unsigned int));
if (IS_ERR(chanlist))
@@ -1609,10 +1605,13 @@ static int do_cmdtest_ioctl(struct comedi_device *dev,
s = &dev->subdevices[cmd.subdev];
- /* load channel/gain list */
- ret = __comedi_get_user_chanlist(dev, s, user_chanlist, &cmd);
- if (ret)
- return ret;
+ /* user_chanlist can be NULL for COMEDI_CMDTEST ioctl */
+ if (user_chanlist) {
+ /* load channel/gain list */
+ ret = __comedi_get_user_chanlist(dev, s, user_chanlist, &cmd);
+ if (ret)
+ return ret;
+ }
ret = s->do_cmdtest(dev, s, &cmd);
--
2.1.2
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