From: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2013 12:50:40 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: staging: comedi: check s->async for poll(), read() and write()
X-Git-Tag: v3.9-rc1~127^2~118
X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=cc400e185c07c15a42d2635995f422de5b94b696;p=pandora-kernel.git

staging: comedi: check s->async for poll(), read() and write()

Some low-level comedi drivers (incorrectly) point `dev->read_subdev` or
`dev->write_subdev` to a subdevice that does not support asynchronous
commands.  Comedi's poll(), read() and write() file operation handlers
assume these subdevices do support asynchronous commands.  In
particular, they assume `s->async` is valid (where `s` points to the
read or write subdevice), which it won't be if it has been set
incorrectly.  This can lead to a NULL pointer dereference.

Check `s->async` is non-NULL in `comedi_poll()`, `comedi_read()` and
`comedi_write()` to avoid the bug.

Signed-off-by: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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