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

[Greg KH]

On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 08:14:50PM +0300, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
> 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...

It's not an issue, it is fine as-is.

Jiri, thanks for the fix, I'll queue it up soon.

greg k-h
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