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authorNathael Pajani <nathael.pajani@ed3l.fr>2010-09-02 16:06:16 +0200
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2010-09-03 17:29:04 -0700
commit6eb68d6f3bf1707d5d816ea9242b7d38f25b942e (patch)
tree8b07c11557ac0b72105d5ecb538fb34335ee10eb /drivers/char/tty_io.c
parent336746918299f2ca16b31490655b4ff7c8824c87 (diff)
tty: fix tty_line must not be equal to number of allocated tty pointers in tty driver
I found a bug "by chance" in drivers/char/tty_io.c I mean "by chance" because I was just reading the code of the tty_find_polling_driver() to make a new tty_find_by_name() function. In tty_find_polling_driver() the driver actually test "tty_line <= p->num" while num refers to the number of struct tty_struct pointers allocated for the p->ttys (p is a tty_driver), and tty_line is scanned in a tty name, which can be for example ttyS2. Then tty_line equals 2. And if p->num is 2, we have only p->ttys[0] and p->ttys[1], but no p->ttys[2]. This is actually unharmful, for tty_find_polling_driver() is used only in drivers/serial/kgdboc.c, and there's a test over there to find a console with a matching index, which will never happen. This is still a bug anyway. Signed-off-by: Nathael Pajani <nathael.pajani@ed3l.fr> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char/tty_io.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/char/tty_io.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/tty_io.c b/drivers/char/tty_io.c
index 949067a0bd4..613c852ee0f 100644
--- a/drivers/char/tty_io.c
+++ b/drivers/char/tty_io.c
@@ -355,7 +355,7 @@ struct tty_driver *tty_find_polling_driver(char *name, int *line)
if (*stp == '\0')
stp = NULL;
- if (tty_line >= 0 && tty_line <= p->num && p->ops &&
+ if (tty_line >= 0 && tty_line < p->num && p->ops &&
p->ops->poll_init && !p->ops->poll_init(p, tty_line, stp)) {
res = tty_driver_kref_get(p);
*line = tty_line;