HI
During some begginer's fiddling with uinput it
wasn't too difficult to obtain a hard kernel freeze:
CPU: 1
EIP: 0060:[<f90310ff>] Tainted: P VLI
EFLAGS: 00210246 (2.6.13.4)
EIP is at uinput_request_done+0x14/0x3e [uinput]
eax: e2d72000 ebx: e2d73ea4 ecx: ea9e7020 edx: c17efa80
esi: dcbf8400 edi: 400c55cb ebp: dcbf8400 esp: c47bdee0
ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068
Process ifeel (pid: 10855, threadinfo=c47bc000 task=dcb2e520)
Stack: c4b45980 b7f3c3b4 f9031db7 dcbf8400 e2d73ea4 0000000c 00000001 00000000
00000000 00000003 00200002 da41e00c 00200202 00000021 00200002 c02ed08d
00000000 d9bcabec 00200202 c02edf2f da41e00c 00000002 00000000 00000000
Call Trace:
[<f9031db7>] uinput_ioctl+0x2fa/0x49b [uinput]
[<c02ed08d>] tty_ldisc_deref+0x48/0x71
[<c02edf2f>] tty_write+0x1cc/0x21e
[<c0170688>] do_ioctl+0x78/0x81
[<c0170813>] vfs_ioctl+0x5a/0x1f1
[<c01709e6>] sys_ioctl+0x3c/0x5a
[<c0102e39>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
Code: 8b 54 24 08 31 c0 83 fa 0f 77 0b 8b 44 24 04 8b 84 90 1c 01 00 00 c3 56 53 8b 74 24 0c 8b 5c 24 10 8d 43 0c e8 26 a7 0e c7 8b 03 <c7> 84 86 1c 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 8d 86 5c 01 00 00 c7 44 24 0c
and I think this patch fixes this:
--- linux-2.6.13.4/drivers/input/misc/uinput.c.orig 2005-10-15 10:09:38.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.13.4/drivers/input/misc/uinput.c 2005-10-15 10:19:54.000000000 +0200
@@ -517,7 +517,11 @@ static int uinput_ioctl(struct inode *in
break;
}
req = uinput_request_find(udev, ff_up.request_id);
- if (!(req && req->code == UI_FF_UPLOAD && req->u.effect)) {
+ if (!req) {
+ retval = -EINVAL;
+ break;
+ }
+ if (!(req->code == UI_FF_UPLOAD && req->u.effect)) {
retval = -EINVAL;
break;
}
@@ -535,7 +539,11 @@ static int uinput_ioctl(struct inode *in
break;
}
req = uinput_request_find(udev, ff_erase.request_id);
- if (!(req && req->code == UI_FF_ERASE)) {
+ if (!req) {
+ retval = -EINVAL;
+ break;
+ }
+ if (!(req->code == UI_FF_ERASE)) {
retval = -EINVAL;
break;
}
@@ -553,7 +561,11 @@ static int uinput_ioctl(struct inode *in
break;
}
req = uinput_request_find(udev, ff_up.request_id);
- if (!(req && req->code == UI_FF_UPLOAD && req->u.effect)) {
+ if (!req) {
+ retval = -EINVAL;
+ break;
+ }
+ if (!(req->code == UI_FF_UPLOAD && req->u.effect)) {
retval = -EINVAL;
break;
}
@@ -568,7 +580,11 @@ static int uinput_ioctl(struct inode *in
break;
}
req = uinput_request_find(udev, ff_erase.request_id);
- if (!(req && req->code == UI_FF_ERASE)) {
+ if (!req) {
+ retval = -EINVAL;
+ break;
+ }
+ if (!(req->code == UI_FF_ERASE)) {
retval = -EINVAL;
break;
}
-
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