The patch below does not apply to the 3.11-stable tree. If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to <[email protected]>.
thanks, greg k-h ------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------ >From 2e923a0527ac439e135b9961e58d3acd876bba10 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alexey Khoroshilov <[email protected]> Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2013 16:17:34 -0300 Subject: [PATCH] [media] hdpvr: fix iteration over uninitialized lists in hdpvr_probe() free_buff_list and rec_buff_list are initialized in the middle of hdpvr_probe(), but if something bad happens before that, error handling code calls hdpvr_delete(), which contains iteration over the lists (via hdpvr_free_buffers()). The patch moves the lists initialization to the beginning and by the way fixes goto label in error handling of registering videodev. Found by Linux Driver Verification project (linuxtesting.org). Signed-off-by: Alexey Khoroshilov <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] diff --git a/drivers/media/usb/hdpvr/hdpvr-core.c b/drivers/media/usb/hdpvr/hdpvr-core.c index cb694055..6e507077 100644 --- a/drivers/media/usb/hdpvr/hdpvr-core.c +++ b/drivers/media/usb/hdpvr/hdpvr-core.c @@ -303,6 +303,11 @@ static int hdpvr_probe(struct usb_interface *interface, dev->workqueue = 0; + /* init video transfer queues first of all */ + /* to prevent oops in hdpvr_delete() on error paths */ + INIT_LIST_HEAD(&dev->free_buff_list); + INIT_LIST_HEAD(&dev->rec_buff_list); + /* register v4l2_device early so it can be used for printks */ if (v4l2_device_register(&interface->dev, &dev->v4l2_dev)) { dev_err(&interface->dev, "v4l2_device_register failed\n"); @@ -325,10 +330,6 @@ static int hdpvr_probe(struct usb_interface *interface, if (!dev->workqueue) goto error; - /* init video transfer queues */ - INIT_LIST_HEAD(&dev->free_buff_list); - INIT_LIST_HEAD(&dev->rec_buff_list); - dev->options = hdpvr_default_options; if (default_video_input < HDPVR_VIDEO_INPUTS) @@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ static int hdpvr_probe(struct usb_interface *interface, video_nr[atomic_inc_return(&dev_nr)]); if (retval < 0) { v4l2_err(&dev->v4l2_dev, "registering videodev failed\n"); - goto error; + goto reg_fail; } /* let the user know what node this device is now attached to */ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
