staging: unisys: fix random memory corruption in visorchannel_write()
visorchannel_write() and it's user visorbus_write_channel() are exported, so all visorbus function drivers (i.e., drivers that call visorbus_register_visor_driver()) are potentially affected by the bug. Because of pointer-arithmetic rules, the address being written to in the affected code was actually at byte offset: sizeof(struct channel_header) * offset instead of just <offset> bytes as intended. The bug could cause some very difficult-to-diagnose symptoms. The particular problem that led me on this chase was a kernel fault that would occur during 'insmod visornic' after a previous 'rmmod visornic', where we would fault during netdev_register_kobject() within pm_runtime_set_memalloc_noio() while traversing a device list, which occurred because dev->parent for the visorbus device had become corrupted. Fixes: 0abb60c1 ('staging: unisys: visorchannel_write(): Handle...') Signed-off-by: Tim Sell <Timothy.Sell@unisys.com> Acked-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Romer <benjamin.romer@unisys.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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