DivestOS/Patches/Linux_CVEs/CVE-2017-16526/^4.13/0001.patch
2017-11-08 13:13:06 -05:00

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From bbf26183b7a6236ba602f4d6a2f7cade35bba043 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 14:30:55 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] uwb: properly check kthread_run return value
uwbd_start() calls kthread_run() and checks that the return value is
not NULL. But the return value is not NULL in case kthread_run() fails,
it takes the form of ERR_PTR(-EINTR).
Use IS_ERR() instead.
Also add a check to uwbd_stop().
Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
drivers/uwb/uwbd.c | 12 ++++++++----
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/uwb/uwbd.c b/drivers/uwb/uwbd.c
index 01c20a260a8b3..39dd4ef53c779 100644
--- a/drivers/uwb/uwbd.c
+++ b/drivers/uwb/uwbd.c
@@ -302,18 +302,22 @@ static int uwbd(void *param)
/** Start the UWB daemon */
void uwbd_start(struct uwb_rc *rc)
{
- rc->uwbd.task = kthread_run(uwbd, rc, "uwbd");
- if (rc->uwbd.task == NULL)
+ struct task_struct *task = kthread_run(uwbd, rc, "uwbd");
+ if (IS_ERR(task)) {
+ rc->uwbd.task = NULL;
printk(KERN_ERR "UWB: Cannot start management daemon; "
"UWB won't work\n");
- else
+ } else {
+ rc->uwbd.task = task;
rc->uwbd.pid = rc->uwbd.task->pid;
+ }
}
/* Stop the UWB daemon and free any unprocessed events */
void uwbd_stop(struct uwb_rc *rc)
{
- kthread_stop(rc->uwbd.task);
+ if (rc->uwbd.task)
+ kthread_stop(rc->uwbd.task);
uwbd_flush(rc);
}