The patch below does not apply to the 4.9-stable tree. If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to stable@vger.kernel.org.
thanks,
greg k-h
------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
From 7012040576c6ae25a47035659ee48673612c2c27 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bjorn Andersson bjorn.andersson@linaro.org Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2018 18:09:38 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] firmware: Always initialize the fw_priv list object
When freeing the fw_priv the item is taken off the list. This causes an oops in the FW_OPT_NOCACHE case as the list object is not initialized.
Make sure to initialize the list object regardless of this flag.
Fixes: 422b3db2a503 ("firmware: Fix security issue with request_firmware_into_buf()") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Rishabh Bhatnagar rishabhb@codeaurora.org Signed-off-by: Bjorn Andersson bjorn.andersson@linaro.org Reviewed-by: Rafael J. Wysocki rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
diff --git a/drivers/base/firmware_loader/main.c b/drivers/base/firmware_loader/main.c index b3c0498ee433..8e9213b36e31 100644 --- a/drivers/base/firmware_loader/main.c +++ b/drivers/base/firmware_loader/main.c @@ -226,8 +226,11 @@ static int alloc_lookup_fw_priv(const char *fw_name, }
tmp = __allocate_fw_priv(fw_name, fwc, dbuf, size); - if (tmp && !(opt_flags & FW_OPT_NOCACHE)) - list_add(&tmp->list, &fwc->head); + if (tmp) { + INIT_LIST_HEAD(&tmp->list); + if (!(opt_flags & FW_OPT_NOCACHE)) + list_add(&tmp->list, &fwc->head); + } spin_unlock(&fwc->lock);
*fw_priv = tmp;