Re: [PATCH 2/4] carl9170: fix debugfs crashes

[Greg KH]

On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 10:54:18AM +0300, Kalle Valo wrote:
> Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > On Sat, Sep 17, 2016 at 09:43:02PM +0200, Christian Lamparter wrote:
> >> Ben Greear reported:
> >> > I see lots of instability as soon as I load up the carl9710 NIC.
> >> > My application is going to be poking at it's debugfs files...
> >> >
> >> > BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in carl9170_debugfs_read+0xd5/0x2a0
> >> > [carl9170] at addr ffff8801bc1208b0
> >> > Read of size 8 by task btserver/5888
> >> > =======================================================================
> >> > BUG kmalloc-256 (Tainted: G        W      ): kasan: bad access detected
> >> > -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >> >
> >> > INFO: Allocated in seq_open+0x50/0x100 age=2690 cpu=2 pid=772
> >> >...
> >> 
> >> This breakage was caused by the introduction of intermediate
> >> fops in debugfs by commit 9fd4dcece43a
> >> ("debugfs: prevent access to possibly dead file_operations at file open")
> >
> > Because of this, these should all be backported to 4.7-stable, and
> > 4.8-stable, right?
> 
> Via which tree should these go, Greg's or mine?

I'll take it if you ack it, as it's a debugfs issue.

thanks,

greg k-h