linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.15 13/84] i8k: Fix non-SMP operation

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

Message-Id: <20140715231713.593403378@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:	Tue, 15 Jul 2014 16:17:10 -0700
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	stable@...r.kernel.org, Jim Bos <jim876@...all.nl>,
	Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
	Andreas Mohr <andi@...as.de>
Subject: [PATCH 3.15 13/84] i8k: Fix non-SMP operation

3.15-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>

commit 6d827fbcc370ca259a2905309f64161ab7b10596 upstream.

Commit f36fdb9f0266 (i8k: Force SMM to run on CPU 0) adds support
for multi-core CPUs to the driver. Unfortunately, that causes it
to fail loading if compiled without SMP support, at least on
32 bit kernels. Kernel log shows "i8k: unable to get SMM Dell
signature", and function i8k_smm is found to return -EINVAL.

Testing revealed that the culprit is the missing return value check
of set_cpus_allowed_ptr.

Fixes: f36fdb9f0266 (i8k: Force SMM to run on CPU 0)
Reported-by: Jim Bos <jim876@...all.nl>
Tested-by: Jim Bos <jim876@...all.nl>
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
Cc: Andreas Mohr <andi@...as.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/char/i8k.c |    4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/char/i8k.c
+++ b/drivers/char/i8k.c
@@ -138,7 +138,9 @@ static int i8k_smm(struct smm_regs *regs
 	if (!alloc_cpumask_var(&old_mask, GFP_KERNEL))
 		return -ENOMEM;
 	cpumask_copy(old_mask, &current->cpus_allowed);
-	set_cpus_allowed_ptr(current, cpumask_of(0));
+	rc = set_cpus_allowed_ptr(current, cpumask_of(0));
+	if (rc)
+		goto out;
 	if (smp_processor_id() != 0) {
 		rc = -EBUSY;
 		goto out;


--
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/