chardev: add a check for given minor range
register_chrdev_region() carefully checks minor range
before calling __register_chrdev_region() but there is
another path from alloc_chrdev_region() which does not
check the range properly. So add a check for given minor
range in __register_chrdev_region().
Signed-off-by: Chengguang Xu <cgxu519@gmx.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
diff --git a/fs/char_dev.c b/fs/char_dev.c
index 8a63cfa..6803e98 100644
--- a/fs/char_dev.c
+++ b/fs/char_dev.c
@@ -104,6 +104,12 @@ __register_chrdev_region(unsigned int major, unsigned int baseminor,
int ret = 0;
int i;
+ if (minorct > MINORMASK + 1 - baseminor) {
+ pr_err("CHRDEV \"%s\" minor range requested (%u-%u) is out of range of maximum range (%u-%u) for a single major\n",
+ name, baseminor, baseminor + minorct - 1, 0, MINORMASK);
+ return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
+ }
+
cd = kzalloc(sizeof(struct char_device_struct), GFP_KERNEL);
if (cd == NULL)
return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);