i2c-dev: don't get i2c adapter via i2c_dev
authorviresh kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Wed, 6 Jul 2016 02:57:06 +0000 (19:57 -0700)
committerWolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>
Fri, 8 Jul 2016 01:29:31 +0000 (10:29 +0900)
There is no code protecting i2c_dev to be freed after it is returned
from i2c_dev_get_by_minor() and using it to access the value which we
already have (minor) isn't safe really.

Avoid using it and get the adapter directly from 'minor'.

Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
Tested-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>
drivers/i2c/i2c-dev.c

index 6ecfd76270f2769fe5c9b0c21554977eeb563ccb..66f323fd39826ebe9a738d55724ee2e124b45419 100644 (file)
@@ -485,13 +485,8 @@ static int i2cdev_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
        unsigned int minor = iminor(inode);
        struct i2c_client *client;
        struct i2c_adapter *adap;
-       struct i2c_dev *i2c_dev;
-
-       i2c_dev = i2c_dev_get_by_minor(minor);
-       if (!i2c_dev)
-               return -ENODEV;
 
-       adap = i2c_get_adapter(i2c_dev->adap->nr);
+       adap = i2c_get_adapter(minor);
        if (!adap)
                return -ENODEV;