From: Jarkko Sakkinen jarkko.sakkinen@tuni.fi
commit f4032d615f90970d6c3ac1d9c0bce3351eb4445c upstream.
/dev/vtpmx is made visible before 'workqueue' is initialized, which can lead to a memory corruption in the worst case scenario.
Address this by initializing 'workqueue' as the very first step of the driver initialization.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 6f99612e2500 ("tpm: Proxy driver for supporting multiple emulated TPMs") Reviewed-by: Stefan Berger stefanb@linux.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen jarkko.sakkinen@tuni.fi Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen jarkko@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/char/tpm/tpm_vtpm_proxy.c | 30 +++++++----------------------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_vtpm_proxy.c +++ b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_vtpm_proxy.c @@ -683,37 +683,21 @@ static struct miscdevice vtpmx_miscdev = .fops = &vtpmx_fops, };
-static int vtpmx_init(void) -{ - return misc_register(&vtpmx_miscdev); -} - -static void vtpmx_cleanup(void) -{ - misc_deregister(&vtpmx_miscdev); -} - static int __init vtpm_module_init(void) { int rc;
- rc = vtpmx_init(); - if (rc) { - pr_err("couldn't create vtpmx device\n"); - return rc; - } - workqueue = create_workqueue("tpm-vtpm"); if (!workqueue) { pr_err("couldn't create workqueue\n"); - rc = -ENOMEM; - goto err_vtpmx_cleanup; + return -ENOMEM; }
- return 0; - -err_vtpmx_cleanup: - vtpmx_cleanup(); + rc = misc_register(&vtpmx_miscdev); + if (rc) { + pr_err("couldn't create vtpmx device\n"); + destroy_workqueue(workqueue); + }
return rc; } @@ -721,7 +705,7 @@ err_vtpmx_cleanup: static void __exit vtpm_module_exit(void) { destroy_workqueue(workqueue); - vtpmx_cleanup(); + misc_deregister(&vtpmx_miscdev); }
module_init(vtpm_module_init);