Hi Matthieu,

On Sat, 16 May 2009, matthieu castet wrote:

Hi,


dibusb_i2c_xfer seems to do things very dangerous :
it assumes that it get only write/read request or write request.

That means that read can be understood as write. For example a program
doing
file = open("/dev/i2c-x", O_RDWR);
ioctl(file, I2C_SLAVE, 0x50)
read(file, data, 10)
will corrupt the eeprom as it will be understood as a write.

I attach a possible (untested) patch.


Matthieu

Signed-off-by: Matthieu CASTET <[email protected]>

thanks a lot for your patch. I applied it, but could not test. But even it is breaks things, it's better to prevent those "false-reads" than not having this protection. Any breakage we will fix later.

Patrick.

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