From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>,
Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
b43-dev@lists.infradead.org, Nicolai Stange <nicstange@gmail.com>,
Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>,
Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] carl9170: fix debugfs crashes
Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2016 12:14:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160918101455.GA8410@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d1k17idx.fsf@kamboji.qca.qualcomm.com>
On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 10:54:18AM +0300, Kalle Valo wrote:
> Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> writes:
>
> > 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")
> >
> > Because of this, these should all be backported to 4.7-stable, and
> > 4.8-stable, right?
>
> Via which tree should these go, Greg's or mine?
I'll take it if you ack it, as it's a debugfs issue.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-18 10:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-17 19:43 [PATCH 1/4] debugfs: introduce a public file_operations accessor Christian Lamparter
2016-09-17 19:43 ` [PATCH 2/4] carl9170: fix debugfs crashes Christian Lamparter
2016-09-17 19:43 ` [PATCH 3/4] b43: fix debugfs crash Christian Lamparter
2016-09-17 19:43 ` [PATCH 4/4] b43legacy: " Christian Lamparter
2016-09-17 21:45 ` [PATCH 2/4] carl9170: fix debugfs crashes Greg KH
2016-09-18 7:54 ` Kalle Valo
2016-09-18 10:14 ` Greg KH [this message]
2016-09-18 12:49 ` Christian Lamparter
2016-09-18 16:44 ` Greg KH
2016-09-19 20:12 ` Christian Lamparter
2016-09-20 6:50 ` Greg KH
2016-09-18 16:57 ` Kalle Valo
2016-09-21 10:13 ` Greg KH
2016-09-21 16:29 ` Christian Lamparter
2016-09-21 16:49 ` [PATCH v2] " Christian Lamparter
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