[PATCH 12.5/62] firewire: add minor number range check tofw_device_init()

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Mon Feb 04 2013 - 11:57:44 EST


fw_device_init() didn't check whether the allocated minor number isn't
too large. Fail if it goes overflows MINORBITS.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Suggested-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
drivers/firewire/core-device.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

--- a/drivers/firewire/core-device.c
+++ b/drivers/firewire/core-device.c
@@ -1020,6 +1020,10 @@ static void fw_device_init(struct work_s
ret = idr_pre_get(&fw_device_idr, GFP_KERNEL) ?
idr_get_new(&fw_device_idr, device, &minor) :
-ENOMEM;
+ if (minor >= 1 << MINORBITS) {
+ idr_remove(&fw_device_idr, minor);
+ minor = -ENOSPC;
+ }
up_write(&fw_device_rwsem);

if (ret < 0)
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