[PATCH] don't allow / in class device names

From: Stephen Hemminger
Date: Fri Feb 13 2004 - 13:33:46 EST



> [0 tv@tao /sys/class/misc]$ uname -a
> Linux tao 2.6.2-rc2 #6 Mon Jan 26 10:54:50 EET 2004 i686 GNU/Linux
> [0 tv@tao /sys/class/misc]$ echo *
> intermezzo net/tun psaux rtc uinput
> [0 tv@tao /sys/class/misc]$
>
> Seems like that's all because of this:
>
> static struct miscdevice tun_miscdev = {
> .minor = TUN_MINOR,
> .name = "net/tun",
> .fops = &tun_fops
> };
>
> Name is apparently meant to be a filename, not a path.
> Don't know what should be done to it; maybe
>
> static struct miscdevice tun_miscdev = {
> .minor = TUN_MINOR,
> .name = "tun",
> .fops = &tun_fops,
> .devfs_name = "misc/net/tun",
> };
>
> But I havent tried that out.
>
> I'd suggest this, to flush out all the problems. Later,
> it can be changed to return -EINVAL or BUG_ON.
>
> --- 1.26/drivers/char/misc.c Thu Jan 15 13:05:56 2004
> +++ edited/misc.c Fri Feb 13 19:35:45 2004
> @@ -212,6 +212,9 @@
> int misc_register(struct miscdevice * misc)
> {
> struct miscdevice *c;
> +
> + if (misc->name && strchr(misc->name, '/'))
> + printk("%s: name contains slash when registering %s.\n", __func__, misc->name);
>
> down(&misc_sem);
> list_for_each_entry(c, &misc_list, list) {
>
Don't fix it just for misc_register, the fix needs to go into class_device.

diff -Nru a/drivers/base/class.c b/drivers/base/class.c
--- a/drivers/base/class.c Fri Feb 13 10:23:36 2004
+++ b/drivers/base/class.c Fri Feb 13 10:23:36 2004
@@ -281,7 +281,8 @@
int error;

class_dev = class_device_get(class_dev);
- if (!class_dev || !strlen(class_dev->class_id))
+ if (!class_dev || !strlen(class_dev->class_id)
+ || strchr(class_dev->class_id, '/'))
return -EINVAL;

parent = class_get(class_dev->class);

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