[PATCH 5/5] kgdboc,tty: Fix tty polling search to use name correctly

From: Jason Wessel
Date: Fri Sep 26 2008 - 14:06:36 EST


The tty_find_polling_driver() routine did not correctly check the base
part of the tty name. This can lead to kgdboc selecting an incorrect
driver, as well as accepting a completely invalid tty such as "echo
ffff0 > /sys/module/kgdboc/parameters/kgdboc".

Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/char/tty_io.c | 14 ++++++++++++--
1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/char/tty_io.c b/drivers/char/tty_io.c
index daeb8f7..e4dce87 100644
--- a/drivers/char/tty_io.c
+++ b/drivers/char/tty_io.c
@@ -695,13 +695,23 @@ struct tty_driver *tty_find_polling_driver(char *name, int *line)
{
struct tty_driver *p, *res = NULL;
int tty_line = 0;
+ int len;
char *str;

+ for (str = name; *str; str++)
+ if ((*str >= '0' && *str <= '9') || *str == ',')
+ break;
+ if (!*str)
+ return NULL;
+
+ len = str - name;
+ tty_line = simple_strtoul(str, &str, 10);
+
mutex_lock(&tty_mutex);
/* Search through the tty devices to look for a match */
list_for_each_entry(p, &tty_drivers, tty_drivers) {
- str = name + strlen(p->name);
- tty_line = simple_strtoul(str, &str, 10);
+ if (strncmp(name, p->name, len) != 0)
+ continue;
if (*str == ',')
str++;
if (*str == '\0')
--
1.6.0.90.g436ed.dirty

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