From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2016 12:13:25 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 2/4] carl9170: fix debugfs crashes In-Reply-To: References: <48411543620969bebb37a1a9ea7b8f451cdfdd31.1474140477.git.chunkeey@gmail.com> Message-ID: <20160921101325.GA22263@kroah.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Christian Lamparter Cc: Kalle Valo , Christian Lamparter , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, b43-dev@lists.infradead.org, Nicolai Stange , Ben Greear , Larry Finger On Sat, Sep 17, 2016 at 09:43:02PM +0200, Christian Lamparter wrote: > Ben Greear reported: > > I see lots of instability as soon as I load up the carl9710 NIC. > > My application is going to be poking at it's debugfs files... > > > > BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in carl9170_debugfs_read+0xd5/0x2a0 > > [carl9170] at addr ffff8801bc1208b0 > > Read of size 8 by task btserver/5888 > > ======================================================================= > > BUG kmalloc-256 (Tainted: G W ): kasan: bad access detected > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > INFO: Allocated in seq_open+0x50/0x100 age=2690 cpu=2 pid=772 > >... > > This breakage was caused by the introduction of intermediate > fops in debugfs by commit 9fd4dcece43a > ("debugfs: prevent access to possibly dead file_operations at file open") > > Thankfully, the original/real fops are still available in d_fsdata. > > Reported-by: Ben Greear > Reviewed-by: Nicolai Stange > Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter > Acked-by: Kalle Valo > Cc: stable # 4.7+ > --- > drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/debug.c | 4 ++-- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/debug.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/debug.c > index 01a0919..ad7ffd5 100644 > --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/debug.c > +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/debug.c > @@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ static ssize_t carl9170_debugfs_read(struct file *file, char __user *userbuf, > > if (!ar) > return -ENODEV; > - dfops = container_of(file->f_path.dentry->d_fsdata, > + dfops = container_of(debugfs_real_fops(file), > struct carl9170_debugfs_fops, fops); > > if (!dfops->read) > @@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ static ssize_t carl9170_debugfs_write(struct file *file, > > if (!ar) > return -ENODEV; > - dfops = container_of(file->f_path.dentry->d_fsdata, > + dfops = container_of(debugfs_real_fops(file), > struct carl9170_debugfs_fops, fops); > if (!dfops->write) > return -ENOSYS; What tree is this against? I can't apply it to 4.8-rc5, or 4.8-rc7, are you sure it is still needed? thanks, greg k-h