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authorKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>2014-09-18 11:25:37 -0700
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2014-09-23 23:26:58 -0700
commit471b095dfe0d693a8d624cbc716d1ee4d74eb437 (patch)
tree567180943a6b52e6029a30b6799520a341a990bb /drivers/base
parent41575335ed026339e07f265ede3a21e995bee8e6 (diff)
firmware_class: make sure fw requests contain a name
An empty firmware request name will trigger warnings when building device names. Make sure this is caught earlier and rejected. The warning was visible via the test_firmware.ko module interface: echo -ne "\x00" > /sys/devices/virtual/misc/test_firmware/trigger_request Reported-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Tested-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/base')
-rw-r--r--drivers/base/firmware_class.c3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/base/firmware_class.c b/drivers/base/firmware_class.c
index bf424305f3d..3d785ebb48d 100644
--- a/drivers/base/firmware_class.c
+++ b/drivers/base/firmware_class.c
@@ -1105,6 +1105,9 @@ _request_firmware(const struct firmware **firmware_p, const char *name,
if (!firmware_p)
return -EINVAL;
+ if (!name || name[0] == '\0')
+ return -EINVAL;
+
ret = _request_firmware_prepare(&fw, name, device);
if (ret <= 0) /* error or already assigned */
goto out;