linux-kernel - [PATCH] firewire: fix NULL pointer deref. and resource leak

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Date:	Wed, 20 Feb 2008 21:10:06 +0100 (CET)
From:	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
To:	linux1394-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net
cc:	Anders Blomdell <anders.blomdell@...trol.lth.se>,
	David Moore <dcm@....EDU>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] firewire: fix NULL pointer deref. and resource leak

By supplying ioctl()s in the wrong order, a userspace client was able to
trigger NULL pointer dereferences.  Furthermore, by calling
ioctl_create_iso_context more than once, new contexts could be created
without ever freeing the previously created contexts.

Thanks to Anders Blomdell for the report.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
---
 drivers/firewire/fw-cdev.c |    9 +++++++--
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Index: linux/drivers/firewire/fw-cdev.c
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/drivers/firewire/fw-cdev.c
+++ linux/drivers/firewire/fw-cdev.c
@@ -646,6 +646,10 @@ static int ioctl_create_iso_context(stru
 	struct fw_cdev_create_iso_context *request = buffer;
 	struct fw_iso_context *context;
 
+	/* We only support one context at this time. */
+	if (client->iso_context != NULL)
+		return -EBUSY;
+
 	if (request->channel > 63)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
@@ -792,8 +796,9 @@ static int ioctl_start_iso(struct client
 {
 	struct fw_cdev_start_iso *request = buffer;
 
-	if (request->handle != 0)
+	if (client->iso_context == NULL || request->handle != 0)
 		return -EINVAL;
+
 	if (client->iso_context->type == FW_ISO_CONTEXT_RECEIVE) {
 		if (request->tags == 0 || request->tags > 15)
 			return -EINVAL;
@@ -810,7 +815,7 @@ static int ioctl_stop_iso(struct client 
 {
 	struct fw_cdev_stop_iso *request = buffer;
 
-	if (request->handle != 0)
+	if (client->iso_context == NULL || request->handle != 0)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
 	return fw_iso_context_stop(client->iso_context);

-- 
Stefan Richter
-=====-==--- --=- =-=--
http://arcgraph.de/sr/

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