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%3Ba=su...
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@vger.kernel.org know about it.
From foo@baz Mon Apr 9 17:09:24 CEST 2018
From: Pan Bian bianpan2016@163.com Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2017 10:06:36 -0300 Subject: [media] cx25840: fix unchecked return values
From: Pan Bian bianpan2016@163.com
[ 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@163.com Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil hans.verkuil@cisco.com Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab mchehab@s-opensource.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@microsoft.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- 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@163.com 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