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| author | Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org> | 2012-04-26 21:59:10 +0200 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2012-04-26 16:59:44 -0700 |
| commit | 5c22837adca7c30b66121cf18ad3e160134268d4 (patch) | |
| tree | cc1c54f3354ea2768860c615c1b27100eda02145 /drivers | |
| parent | 151b61284776be2d6f02d48c23c3625678960b97 (diff) | |
| download | linux-5c22837adca7c30b66121cf18ad3e160134268d4.tar.bz2 | |
USB: cdc-wdm: fix race leading leading to memory corruption
This patch fixes a race whereby a pointer to a buffer
would be overwritten while the buffer was in use leading
to a double free and a memory leak. This causes crashes.
This bug was introduced in 2.6.34
Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>
Tested-by: Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/usb/class/cdc-wdm.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/usb/class/cdc-wdm.c b/drivers/usb/class/cdc-wdm.c index c6f6560d436c..0bb2b3248dad 100644 --- a/drivers/usb/class/cdc-wdm.c +++ b/drivers/usb/class/cdc-wdm.c @@ -157,8 +157,9 @@ static void wdm_out_callback(struct urb *urb) spin_lock(&desc->iuspin); desc->werr = urb->status; spin_unlock(&desc->iuspin); - clear_bit(WDM_IN_USE, &desc->flags); kfree(desc->outbuf); + desc->outbuf = NULL; + clear_bit(WDM_IN_USE, &desc->flags); wake_up(&desc->wait); } @@ -338,7 +339,7 @@ static ssize_t wdm_write if (we < 0) return -EIO; - desc->outbuf = buf = kmalloc(count, GFP_KERNEL); + buf = kmalloc(count, GFP_KERNEL); if (!buf) { rv = -ENOMEM; goto outnl; @@ -406,10 +407,12 @@ static ssize_t wdm_write req->wIndex = desc->inum; req->wLength = cpu_to_le16(count); set_bit(WDM_IN_USE, &desc->flags); + desc->outbuf = buf; rv = usb_submit_urb(desc->command, GFP_KERNEL); if (rv < 0) { kfree(buf); + desc->outbuf = NULL; clear_bit(WDM_IN_USE, &desc->flags); dev_err(&desc->intf->dev, "Tx URB error: %d\n", rv); } else { |