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@vger.kernel.org Cc: Rishabh Bhatnagar rishabhb@codeaurora.org Signed-off-by: Bjorn Andersson bjorn.andersson@linaro.org
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