linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 1/5] firmware: fix __getname() missing failure check

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Date:	Tue, 12 May 2015 11:30:53 -0700
From:	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...not-panic.com>
To:	ming.lei@...onical.com, rusty@...tcorp.com.au
Cc:	dhowells@...hat.com, seth.forshee@...onical.com,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	pebolle@...cali.nl, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...e.com>,
	Kyle McMartin <kyle@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH v2 1/5] firmware: fix __getname() missing failure check

From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...e.com>

The request_firmware*() APIs uses __getname() to iterate
over the list of paths possible for firmware to be found,
the code however never checked for failure on __getname().
Although *very unlikely*, this can still happen. Add the
missing check.

There is still no checks on the concatenation of the path
and filename passed, that requires a bit more work and
subsequent patches address this. The commit that introduced
this is abb139e7 ("firmware: teach the kernel to load
firmware files directly from the filesystem").

mcgrof@...on ~/linux (git::firmware-fixes) $ git describe --contains abb139e7
v3.7-rc1~120

Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ming Lei <ming.lei@...onical.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@...e.com>
---
 drivers/base/firmware_class.c | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/base/firmware_class.c b/drivers/base/firmware_class.c
index 171841a..bc6c8e6 100644
--- a/drivers/base/firmware_class.c
+++ b/drivers/base/firmware_class.c
@@ -322,7 +322,11 @@ static int fw_get_filesystem_firmware(struct device *device,
 {
 	int i;
 	int rc = -ENOENT;
-	char *path = __getname();
+	char *path;
+
+	path = __getname();
+	if (unlikely(!path))
+		return PTR_ERR(path);
 
 	for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(fw_path); i++) {
 		struct file *file;
-- 
2.3.2.209.gd67f9d5.dirty

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