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From: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
To: Antonio Ospite <ospite@studenti.unina.it>
Cc: linux-input@vger.kernel.org, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>,
	Alan Ott <alan@signal11.us>, Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.name>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] HID: hidraw, fix two NULL pointer dereferences
Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2010 12:09:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CAC4AC3.60507@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101006120129.52da81d3.ospite@studenti.unina.it>

On 10/06/2010 12:01 PM, Antonio Ospite wrote:
> On Tue, 05 Oct 2010 23:12:00 +0200
> Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 10/05/2010 05:20 PM, Antonio Ospite wrote:
>>> here are some fixes to hidraw.
>>>
>>> Patches are against 2.6.36-rc6, but they should be ported to other
>>> maintained stable kernels as well.
>>>
>>> Antonio Ospite (2):
>>>   HID: hidraw, fix a NULL pointer dereference in hidraw_ioctl
>>>   HID: hidraw, fix a NULL pointer dereference in hidraw_write
>>
>> Hi, please fix also the window in hidraw_release.
>>
> 
> I am not sure I get what you mean, can you please add more details?

Sure. Look at the code:
if (!hidraw_table[minor])
        return -ENODEV;
...
dev = hidraw_table[minor];
if (!--dev->open) {
...

This is done without minors_lock, so you can easily have dev being NULL
even though the first if.

regards,
-- 
js

  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-06 10:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-02 11:25 [PATCH] HID: hidraw, fix a NULL pointer dereference in hidraw_ioctl Antonio Ospite
2010-10-04 13:50 ` Jiri Kosina
2010-10-04 14:11   ` Antonio Ospite
2010-10-05 15:20   ` [PATCH 0/2] HID: hidraw, fix two NULL pointer dereferences Antonio Ospite
2010-10-05 17:42     ` [stable] " Greg KH
2010-10-05 20:16       ` Antonio Ospite
2010-10-06  9:31         ` Jiri Kosina
2010-10-15  7:44           ` Antonio Ospite
2010-10-15  9:10             ` Jiri Kosina
2010-10-05 21:12     ` Jiri Slaby
2010-10-06 10:01       ` Antonio Ospite
2010-10-06 10:09         ` Jiri Slaby [this message]
2010-10-09 12:40           ` Antonio Ospite
2010-10-19  9:24             ` [PATCH 1/1] HID: hidraw, fix window in hidraw_release Jiri Slaby
2010-10-19  9:28               ` Jiri Slaby
2010-10-19  9:29               ` Jiri Slaby
2010-10-20 14:55                 ` Jiri Kosina
2010-10-05 15:20   ` [PATCH 1/2] HID: hidraw, fix a NULL pointer dereference in hidraw_ioctl Antonio Ospite
2010-10-05 15:20   ` [PATCH 2/2] HID: hidraw, fix a NULL pointer dereference in hidraw_write Antonio Ospite
2010-10-04 13:54 ` [PATCH] HID: hidraw, fix a NULL pointer dereference in hidraw_ioctl Alan Ott
2010-10-05 20:29   ` Antonio Ospite

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