Re: [PATCH] iio: inv_mpu6050: Fix use-after-free in ACPI code

[Jonathan Cameron]

On 06/06/16 13:33, Daniel Baluta wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 9:30 PM, Crestez Dan Leonard
> <leonard.crestez@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> In some cases this can result in incorrectly returning a negative value
>> from asus_acpi_get_sensor_info and the AK8963 magnetometer failing to
>> show up.
>>
>> Cc: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Crestez Dan Leonard <leonard.crestez@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Looks good to me. I had to look into the code to see that
> cpm is an alias for buffer.pointer, perhaps this should have been
> mentioned in the commit message.
> 
> Acked-by: Daniel Baluta <daniel.baluta@xxxxxxxxx>
I added a note on that to the commit message and applied to the fixes-togreg
branch of iio.git.

Thanks,

Jonathan
> 
>> ---
>>  drivers/iio/imu/inv_mpu6050/inv_mpu_acpi.c | 5 +++--
>>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/iio/imu/inv_mpu6050/inv_mpu_acpi.c b/drivers/iio/imu/inv_mpu6050/inv_mpu_acpi.c
>> index 2771106..f770472 100644
>> --- a/drivers/iio/imu/inv_mpu6050/inv_mpu_acpi.c
>> +++ b/drivers/iio/imu/inv_mpu6050/inv_mpu_acpi.c
>> @@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ static int asus_acpi_get_sensor_info(struct acpi_device *adev,
>>         int i;
>>         acpi_status status;
>>         union acpi_object *cpm;
>> +       int ret;
>>
>>         status = acpi_evaluate_object(adev->handle, "CNF0", NULL, &buffer);
>>         if (ACPI_FAILURE(status))
>> @@ -82,10 +83,10 @@ static int asus_acpi_get_sensor_info(struct acpi_device *adev,
>>                         }
>>                 }
>>         }
>> -
>> +       ret = cpm->package.count;
>>         kfree(buffer.pointer);
>>
>> -       return cpm->package.count;
>> +       return ret;
>>  }
>>
>>  static int acpi_i2c_check_resource(struct acpi_resource *ares, void *data)
>> --
>> 2.5.5
>>
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