linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/5] Bluetooth: Add RFCOMM TTY write return error codes

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Date:	Tue,  2 Jul 2013 16:31:30 +0100
From:	Dean Jenkins <Dean_Jenkins@...tor.com>
To:	Andre Naujoks <nautsch2@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH 1/5] Bluetooth: Add RFCOMM TTY write return error codes

It appears that rfcomm_tty_write() does not check that the
passed in TTY device_data is not NULL and also does not check
that the RFCOMM DLC serial data link pointer is not NULL.

A kernel crash was observed whilst SLIP was bound to /dev/rfcomm0
but the /dev/rfcomm0 had subsequently disconnected. Unfortunately,
SLIP attempted to write to the now non-existant RFCOMM TTY device
which caused a NULL pointer dereference because the device_data
no longer existed.

Therefore, add NULL pointer checks for the dev and dlc pointers
and output kernel error debug to show that NULL had been detected.

Signed-off-by: Dean Jenkins <Dean_Jenkins@...tor.com>
---
 net/bluetooth/rfcomm/tty.c | 14 +++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/bluetooth/rfcomm/tty.c b/net/bluetooth/rfcomm/tty.c
index b6e44ad..56d28d1 100644
--- a/net/bluetooth/rfcomm/tty.c
+++ b/net/bluetooth/rfcomm/tty.c
@@ -761,12 +761,24 @@ static void rfcomm_tty_close(struct tty_struct *tty, struct file *filp)
 static int rfcomm_tty_write(struct tty_struct *tty, const unsigned char *buf, int count)
 {
 	struct rfcomm_dev *dev = (struct rfcomm_dev *) tty->driver_data;
-	struct rfcomm_dlc *dlc = dev->dlc;
+	struct rfcomm_dlc *dlc;
 	struct sk_buff *skb;
 	int err = 0, sent = 0, size;
 
 	BT_DBG("tty %p count %d", tty, count);
 
+	if (!dev) {
+		BT_ERR("RFCOMM TTY device data structure does not exist");
+		return -ENODEV;
+	}
+
+	dlc = dev->dlc;
+
+	if (!dlc) {
+		BT_ERR("RFCOMM serial data link does not exist");
+		return -ENOLINK;
+	}
+
 	while (count) {
 		size = min_t(uint, count, dlc->mtu);
 
-- 
1.8.1.5

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