Re: [PATCH 0/6] pps: fix a UAF and clean up code

[Calvin Owens <calvin@wbinvd.org>]

On Monday 12/02 at 17:34 +0100, Michal Schmidt wrote:
> The 1st patch fixes a UAF bug. The fix is quite minimal, although a bit
> ugly. The rest of the series are cleanups in the area.

Hi Michal,

I've also been poking at this, I've sent some patches recently:

    https://lore.kernel.org/all/a17975fd5ae99385791929e563f72564edbcf28f.1731383727.git.calvin@wbinvd.org/

The major difference is that I used __register_chrdev() and removed the
embedded cdev too. I think that is cleaner, what do you think?

Thanks,
Calvin

> Michal Schmidt (6):
>   pps: fix cdev use-after-free
>   pps: simplify pps_idr_lock locking
>   pps: use scoped_guard for pps_idr_lock
>   pps: print error in both cdev and dev error paths in
>     pps_register_cdev()
>   pps: embed "dev" in the pps_device
>   pps: use cdev_device_add()
> 
>  drivers/pps/clients/pps-gpio.c    |  2 +-
>  drivers/pps/clients/pps-ldisc.c   |  6 +-
>  drivers/pps/clients/pps_parport.c |  4 +-
>  drivers/pps/kapi.c                | 10 ++--
>  drivers/pps/pps.c                 | 94 +++++++++++++------------------
>  include/linux/pps_kernel.h        |  2 +-
>  6 files changed, 50 insertions(+), 68 deletions(-)
> 
> 
> base-commit: 7af08b57bcb9ebf78675c50069c54125c0a8b795
> -- 
> 2.47.0
>