linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.4 160/241] chardev: add additional check for minor range overlap

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Date:   Sun,  9 Jun 2019 18:41:42 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Chengguang Xu <cgxu519@....com>,
        Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 4.4 160/241] chardev: add additional check for minor range overlap

[ Upstream commit de36e16d1557a0b6eb328bc3516359a12ba5c25c ]

Current overlap checking cannot correctly handle
a case which is baseminor < existing baseminor &&
baseminor + minorct > existing baseminor + minorct.

Signed-off-by: Chengguang Xu <cgxu519@....com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
---
 fs/char_dev.c | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/char_dev.c b/fs/char_dev.c
index 24b142569ca9b..d0655ca894816 100644
--- a/fs/char_dev.c
+++ b/fs/char_dev.c
@@ -130,6 +130,12 @@ __register_chrdev_region(unsigned int major, unsigned int baseminor,
 			ret = -EBUSY;
 			goto out;
 		}
+
+		if (new_min < old_min && new_max > old_max) {
+			ret = -EBUSY;
+			goto out;
+		}
+
 	}
 
 	cd->next = *cp;
-- 
2.20.1