This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

debugfs: be more robust at handling improper input in

to my driver-core git tree which can be found at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core.git in the driver-core-next branch.

The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree (usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.)

The patch will also be merged in the next major kernel release during the merge window.

If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.

From bc6de804d36b3709d54fa22bd128cbac91c11526 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2021 11:08:17 +0100 Subject: debugfs: be more robust at handling improper input in debugfs_lookup()

debugfs_lookup() doesn't like it if it is passed an illegal name pointer, or if the filesystem isn't even initialized yet. If either of these happen, it will crash the system, so fix it up by properly testing for valid input and that we are up and running before trying to find a file in the filesystem.

Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" rafael@kernel.org Cc: stable stable@vger.kernel.org Reported-by: Michael Walle michael@walle.cc Tested-by: Michael Walle michael@walle.cc Tested-by: Marc Zyngier maz@kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210218100818.3622317-1-gregkh@linuxfoundation.or... Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- fs/debugfs/inode.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/debugfs/inode.c b/fs/debugfs/inode.c index 2fcf66473436..bbeb563cbe78 100644 --- a/fs/debugfs/inode.c +++ b/fs/debugfs/inode.c @@ -297,7 +297,7 @@ struct dentry *debugfs_lookup(const char *name, struct dentry *parent) { struct dentry *dentry;

- if (IS_ERR(parent)) + if (!debugfs_initialized() || IS_ERR_OR_NULL(name) || IS_ERR(parent)) return NULL;

if (!parent)