[PATCH 3.19.y-ckt 023/102] hwrng: core - correct error check of kthread_run call

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Tue Sep 22 17:51:19 UTC 2015


3.19.8-ckt7 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky at de.ibm.com>

commit 17fb874dee093139923af8ed36061faa92cc8e79 upstream.

The kthread_run() function can return two different error values
but the hwrng core only checks for -ENOMEM. If the other error
value -EINTR is returned it is assigned to hwrng_fill and later
used on a kthread_stop() call which naturally crashes.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky at de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert at gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/char/hw_random/core.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c b/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c
index 1500cfd..b98fb25 100644
--- a/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c
+++ b/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c
@@ -361,7 +361,7 @@ static int hwrng_fillfn(void *unused)
 static void start_khwrngd(void)
 {
 	hwrng_fill = kthread_run(hwrng_fillfn, NULL, "hwrng");
-	if (hwrng_fill == ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM)) {
+	if (IS_ERR(hwrng_fill)) {
 		pr_err("hwrng_fill thread creation failed");
 		hwrng_fill = NULL;
 	}
-- 
1.9.1





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