Ben Greear reported:
> I see lots of instability as soon as I load up the carl9710 NIC.
> My application is going to be poking at it's debugfs files...
>
> BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in carl9170_debugfs_read+0xd5/0x2a0
> [carl9170] at addr 0xffff8801bc1208b0
> Read of size 8 by task btserver/5888
> =======================================================================
> BUG kmalloc-256 (Tainted: G W ): kasan: bad access detected
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> INFO: Allocated in seq_open+0x50/0x100 age=2690 cpu=2 pid=772
>...
This breakage was caused by the introduction of intermediate
fops in debugfs by commit
9fd4dcece43a
("debugfs: prevent access to possibly dead file_operations at file open")
Thankfully, the original/real fops are still available in d_fsdata.
Reported-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.7+
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
if (!ar)
return -ENODEV;
- dfops = container_of(file->f_op, struct carl9170_debugfs_fops, fops);
+ dfops = container_of(debugfs_real_fops(file),
+ struct carl9170_debugfs_fops, fops);
if (!dfops->read)
return -ENOSYS;
if (!ar)
return -ENODEV;
- dfops = container_of(file->f_op, struct carl9170_debugfs_fops, fops);
+ dfops = container_of(debugfs_real_fops(file),
+ struct carl9170_debugfs_fops, fops);
if (!dfops->write)
return -ENOSYS;