Patch "rfkill: copy the name into the rfkill struct" has been added to the 3.14-stable tree

Patch "rfkill: copy the name into the rfkill struct" has been added to the 3.14-stable tree

[gregkh]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    rfkill: copy the name into the rfkill struct

to the 3.14-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     rfkill-copy-the-name-into-the-rfkill-struct.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.14 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 b7bb110008607a915298bf0f47d25886ecb94477 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2015 10:37:51 +0100
Subject: rfkill: copy the name into the rfkill struct

From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

commit b7bb110008607a915298bf0f47d25886ecb94477 upstream.

Some users of rfkill, like NFC and cfg80211, use a dynamic name when
allocating rfkill, in those cases dev_name(). Therefore, the pointer
passed to rfkill_alloc() might not be valid forever, I specifically
found the case that the rfkill name was quite obviously an invalid
pointer (or at least garbage) when the wiphy had been renamed.

Fix this by making a copy of the rfkill name in rfkill_alloc().

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 net/rfkill/core.c |    6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/net/rfkill/core.c
+++ b/net/rfkill/core.c
@@ -49,7 +49,6 @@
 struct rfkill {
 	spinlock_t		lock;
 
-	const char		*name;
 	enum rfkill_type	type;
 
 	unsigned long		state;
@@ -73,6 +72,7 @@ struct rfkill {
 	struct delayed_work	poll_work;
 	struct work_struct	uevent_work;
 	struct work_struct	sync_work;
+	char			name[];
 };
 #define to_rfkill(d)	container_of(d, struct rfkill, dev)
 
@@ -861,14 +861,14 @@ struct rfkill * __must_check rfkill_allo
 	if (WARN_ON(type == RFKILL_TYPE_ALL || type >= NUM_RFKILL_TYPES))
 		return NULL;
 
-	rfkill = kzalloc(sizeof(*rfkill), GFP_KERNEL);
+	rfkill = kzalloc(sizeof(*rfkill) + strlen(name) + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!rfkill)
 		return NULL;
 
 	spin_lock_init(&rfkill->lock);
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&rfkill->node);
 	rfkill->type = type;
-	rfkill->name = name;
+	strcpy(rfkill->name, name);
 	rfkill->ops = ops;
 	rfkill->data = ops_data;
 


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from johannes.berg@intel.com are

queue-3.14/rfkill-copy-the-name-into-the-rfkill-struct.patch
queue-3.14/mac80211-mesh-fix-call_rcu-usage.patch