Re: [PATCH 1/1] USB: serial/usb_wwan, fix tty NULL dereference

From: Sergei Shtylyov
Date: Tue Feb 15 2011 - 12:16:29 EST


Hello.

Jiri Slaby wrote:

tty_port_tty_get may return without any problems NULL. Handle this
case and do not oops in usb_wwan_indat_callback by dereferencing it.

The oops:
Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0x000000d8
Faulting instruction address: 0xc0175b3c
Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]
PowerPC 40x Platform
last sysfs file:
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:00.0/0000:01:00.0/0000:02:09.2/usb1/idVendor
Modules linked in:
NIP: c0175b3c LR: c0175e7c CTR: c0215c90
REGS: c77f7d50 TRAP: 0300 Not tainted (2.6.37-rc5)
MSR: 00021030 <ME,CE,IR,DR> CR: 88482028 XER: 2000005f
DEAR: 000000d8, ESR: 00000000
TASK = c7141b90[1149] 'wvdial' THREAD: c2750000
GPR00: 00021030 c77f7e00 c7141b90 00000000 0000000e 00000000 0000000e c0410680
GPR08: c683db00 00000000 00000001 c03c81f8 88482028 10073ef4 ffffffb9 ffffff94
GPR16: 00000000 fde036c0 00200200 00100100 00000001 ffffff8d c34fabcc 00000000
GPR24: c71120d4 00000000 00000000 0000000e 00021030 00000000 00000000 0000000e
NIP [c0175b3c] tty_buffer_request_room+0x2c/0x194
LR [c0175e7c] tty_insert_flip_string_fixed_flag+0x3c/0xb0
Call Trace:
[c77f7e00] [00000003] 0x3 (unreliable)
[c77f7e30] [c0175e7c] tty_insert_flip_string_fixed_flag+0x3c/0xb0
[c77f7e60] [c0215df4] usb_wwan_indat_callback+0x164/0x170
...

References: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24582
Cc: Amit Shah <amitshah@xxxxxxx>
Cc: baoyb <baoyb@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx>
---
drivers/usb/serial/usb_wwan.c | 15 +++++++++------
1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/usb/serial/usb_wwan.c b/drivers/usb/serial/usb_wwan.c
index b004b2a..9c014e2 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/serial/usb_wwan.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/serial/usb_wwan.c
@@ -295,12 +295,15 @@ static void usb_wwan_indat_callback(struct urb *urb)
__func__, status, endpoint);
} else {
tty = tty_port_tty_get(&port->port);
- if (urb->actual_length) {
- tty_insert_flip_string(tty, data, urb->actual_length);
- tty_flip_buffer_push(tty);
- } else
- dbg("%s: empty read urb received", __func__);
- tty_kref_put(tty);
+ if (tty) {
+ if (urb->actual_length) {
+ tty_insert_flip_string(tty, data,
+ urb->actual_length);
+ tty_flip_buffer_push(tty);
+ } else
+ dbg("%s: empty read urb received", __func__);

Should be {} on the *else* branch too, according to Documentation/CodingStyle...

WBR, Sergei
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