linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] input: psmouse: fix potential input register race in psmouse

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:48:18 -0500
From:	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
To:	Andres Salomon <dilinger@...ued.net>
Cc:	dtor@...l.ru, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-input@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] input: psmouse: fix potential input register race in
	psmouse_connect()

On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 03:13:45PM -0500, Andres Salomon wrote:
> 
> If we successfully call input_register_device() in
> psmouse_connect but sysfs_create_group() fails, we'll enter the error
> path without ever having called input_unregister_device() (potentially
> leaking memory, or creating a race condition if something else attempts
> to access the new input device).  This calls input_unregister_device
> from the error path, and sets input_dev to NULL so that we don't
> attempt to also call input_free_device on it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@...ian.org>

Applied, thank you Andres.

-- 
Dmitry

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/