[PATCH] [80/106] Input: synaptics - fix crash in synaptics_module_init()

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Tue Apr 26 2011 - 17:23:41 EST


2.6.35-longterm review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>

[ upstream commit 708748670c7c6dd5bd3b141473086e6937e72737 ]

'struct dmi_system_id' arrays must always have a terminator to keep
dmi_check_system() from looking at data (and possibly crashing) it
isn't supposed to look at.

The issue went unnoticed until ef8313bb1a22e7d2125d9d758aa8a81f1de91d81,
but was introduced about a year earlier with
7705d548cbe33f18ea7713b9a07aa11047aaeca4 (which also similarly changed
lifebook.c, but the problem there got eliminated shortly afterwards).

The first hunk therefore is a stable candidate back to 2.6.33, while
the full change is needed only on 2.6.38.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@xxxxxxx>

Index: linux-2.6.35.y/drivers/input/mouse/synaptics.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.35.y.orig/drivers/input/mouse/synaptics.c
+++ linux-2.6.35.y/drivers/input/mouse/synaptics.c
@@ -712,8 +712,8 @@ static const struct dmi_system_id __init
},

},
- { }
#endif
+ { }
};

void __init synaptics_module_init(void)
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