From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Subject: [PATCH] bluetooth: Fix missing NULL check
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 14:11:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101022131035.5432.73129.stgit@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
From: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Fortunately this is only exploitable on very unusual hardware.
[Reported a while ago but nothing happened so just fixing it]
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
---
drivers/bluetooth/hci_ldisc.c | 7 +++++++
1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/bluetooth/hci_ldisc.c b/drivers/bluetooth/hci_ldisc.c
index 74cb6f3..7201482 100644
--- a/drivers/bluetooth/hci_ldisc.c
+++ b/drivers/bluetooth/hci_ldisc.c
@@ -256,9 +256,16 @@ static int hci_uart_tty_open(struct tty_struct *tty)
BT_DBG("tty %p", tty);
+ /* FIXME: This btw is bogus, nothing requires the old ldisc to clear
+ the pointer */
if (hu)
return -EEXIST;
+ /* Error if the tty has no write op instead of leaving an exploitable
+ hole */
+ if (tty->ops->write == NULL)
+ return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+
if (!(hu = kzalloc(sizeof(struct hci_uart), GFP_KERNEL))) {
BT_ERR("Can't allocate control structure");
return -ENFILE;
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