[PATCH 10/46] comedi: comedi_parport: Add sanity checks for I/O base address

From: Ian Abbott

Date: Fri Jan 30 2026 - 12:05:21 EST


The "comedi_parport" driver treats a standard printer parallel port as a
COMEDI digital I/O device, driving the port's I/O registers directly.
It uses an admin-supplied configuration option (`it->options[0]`) to
configure the I/O port base address of the device. Currently, the
driver allows any I/O base address to be specified as long as the I/O
region can be reserved, and it converts the specified `int` option value
holding the base address to `unsigned long`.

It doesn't make sense to allow base addresses that are not aligned to
4-byte boundaries (for SPP printer ports, although printer ports with
EPP/ECP support actually need to be aligned on 8-byte boundaries), so
add a check for 4-byte alignment.

Convert the option value that specifies the base address from `int` to
`unsigned int` instead of `unsigned long` so it ends up the same on
32-bit and 64-bit systems.

Signed-off-by: Ian Abbott <abbotti@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/comedi/drivers/comedi_parport.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/comedi/drivers/comedi_parport.c b/drivers/comedi/drivers/comedi_parport.c
index 098738a688fe..2604680d86c4 100644
--- a/drivers/comedi/drivers/comedi_parport.c
+++ b/drivers/comedi/drivers/comedi_parport.c
@@ -225,9 +225,11 @@ static int parport_attach(struct comedi_device *dev,
struct comedi_devconfig *it)
{
struct comedi_subdevice *s;
+ unsigned int iobase = it->options[0];
int ret;

- ret = comedi_request_region(dev, it->options[0], 0x03);
+ ret = comedi_check_request_region(dev, iobase, 0x03,
+ 0, UINT_MAX, 4);
if (ret)
return ret;

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2.51.0