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Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 11:25:37 -0700 From: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org> To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Cc: Ming Lei <ming.lei@...onical.com>, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com> Subject: [PATCH] firmware_class: make sure fw requests contain a name An empty firmware request name will trigger warnings when building device names. Make sure this is caught earlier and rejected. The warning was visible via the test_firmware.ko module interface: echo -ne "\x00" > /sys/devices/virtual/misc/test_firmware/trigger_request Reported-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org --- drivers/base/firmware_class.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/base/firmware_class.c b/drivers/base/firmware_class.c index bf424305f3dc..3d785ebb48d3 100644 --- a/drivers/base/firmware_class.c +++ b/drivers/base/firmware_class.c @@ -1105,6 +1105,9 @@ _request_firmware(const struct firmware **firmware_p, const char *name, if (!firmware_p) return -EINVAL; + if (!name || name[0] == '\0') + return -EINVAL; + ret = _request_firmware_prepare(&fw, name, device); if (ret <= 0) /* error or already assigned */ goto out; -- 1.9.1 -- Kees Cook Chrome OS Security -- 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/
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