From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:56408 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751662AbeDIT77 (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Apr 2018 15:59:59 -0400 Subject: Patch "[media] cx25840: fix unchecked return values" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree To: bianpan2016@163.com, alexander.levin@microsoft.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, hans.verkuil@cisco.com, mchehab@s-opensource.com Cc: , From: Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2018 21:57:57 +0200 Message-ID: <152330387718257@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled [media] cx25840: fix unchecked return values to the 4.9-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: cx25840-fix-unchecked-return-values.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let know about it. >>From foo@baz Mon Apr 9 17:09:24 CEST 2018 From: Pan Bian Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2017 10:06:36 -0300 Subject: [media] cx25840: fix unchecked return values From: Pan Bian [ Upstream commit 35378ce143071c2a6bad4b59a000e9b9f8f6ea67 ] In functions cx25840_initialize(), cx231xx_initialize(), and cx23885_initialize(), the return value of create_singlethread_workqueue() is used without validation. This may result in NULL dereference and cause kernel crash. This patch fixes it. Signed-off-by: Pan Bian Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/media/i2c/cx25840/cx25840-core.c | 36 ++++++++++++++++++------------- 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/media/i2c/cx25840/cx25840-core.c +++ b/drivers/media/i2c/cx25840/cx25840-core.c @@ -420,11 +420,13 @@ static void cx25840_initialize(struct i2 INIT_WORK(&state->fw_work, cx25840_work_handler); init_waitqueue_head(&state->fw_wait); q = create_singlethread_workqueue("cx25840_fw"); - prepare_to_wait(&state->fw_wait, &wait, TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE); - queue_work(q, &state->fw_work); - schedule(); - finish_wait(&state->fw_wait, &wait); - destroy_workqueue(q); + if (q) { + prepare_to_wait(&state->fw_wait, &wait, TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE); + queue_work(q, &state->fw_work); + schedule(); + finish_wait(&state->fw_wait, &wait); + destroy_workqueue(q); + } /* 6. */ cx25840_write(client, 0x115, 0x8c); @@ -634,11 +636,13 @@ static void cx23885_initialize(struct i2 INIT_WORK(&state->fw_work, cx25840_work_handler); init_waitqueue_head(&state->fw_wait); q = create_singlethread_workqueue("cx25840_fw"); - prepare_to_wait(&state->fw_wait, &wait, TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE); - queue_work(q, &state->fw_work); - schedule(); - finish_wait(&state->fw_wait, &wait); - destroy_workqueue(q); + if (q) { + prepare_to_wait(&state->fw_wait, &wait, TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE); + queue_work(q, &state->fw_work); + schedule(); + finish_wait(&state->fw_wait, &wait); + destroy_workqueue(q); + } /* Call the cx23888 specific std setup func, we no longer rely on * the generic cx24840 func. @@ -752,11 +756,13 @@ static void cx231xx_initialize(struct i2 INIT_WORK(&state->fw_work, cx25840_work_handler); init_waitqueue_head(&state->fw_wait); q = create_singlethread_workqueue("cx25840_fw"); - prepare_to_wait(&state->fw_wait, &wait, TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE); - queue_work(q, &state->fw_work); - schedule(); - finish_wait(&state->fw_wait, &wait); - destroy_workqueue(q); + if (q) { + prepare_to_wait(&state->fw_wait, &wait, TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE); + queue_work(q, &state->fw_work); + schedule(); + finish_wait(&state->fw_wait, &wait); + destroy_workqueue(q); + } cx25840_std_setup(client); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from bianpan2016@163.com are queue-4.9/cx25840-fix-unchecked-return-values.patch queue-4.9/usb-dwc3-keystone-check-return-value.patch queue-4.9/rtc-snvs-fix-an-incorrect-check-of-return-value.patch