platform/x86: wmi: Fix opening of char device
authorArmin Wolf <W_Armin@gmx.de>
Fri, 20 Oct 2023 21:10:04 +0000 (23:10 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Mon, 20 Nov 2023 10:51:57 +0000 (11:51 +0100)
commit44a96796d25809502c75771d40ee693c2e44724e
treea48c3cb48fde16a0765ff034624fb72d78840f7b
parentae28868bbaecaff8bf3db6e4eb2c2a0fc710d6b2
platform/x86: wmi: Fix opening of char device

[ Upstream commit eba9ac7abab91c8f6d351460239108bef5e7a0b6 ]

Since commit fa1f68db6ca7 ("drivers: misc: pass miscdevice pointer via
file private data"), the miscdevice stores a pointer to itself inside
filp->private_data, which means that private_data will not be NULL when
wmi_char_open() is called. This might cause memory corruption should
wmi_char_open() be unable to find its driver, something which can
happen when the associated WMI device is deleted in wmi_free_devices().

Fix the problem by using the miscdevice pointer to retrieve the WMI
device data associated with a char device using container_of(). This
also avoids wmi_char_open() picking a wrong WMI device bound to a
driver with the same name as the original driver.

Fixes: 44b6b7661132 ("platform/x86: wmi: create userspace interface for drivers")
Signed-off-by: Armin Wolf <W_Armin@gmx.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231020211005.38216-5-W_Armin@gmx.de
Reviewed-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
drivers/platform/x86/wmi.c