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authorChengguang Xu <cgxu519@gmx.com>2019-02-15 12:27:11 (GMT)
committer Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2019-05-31 13:48:29 (GMT)
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parentde90525fbe776d0faa3073aec11e6718eced518e (diff)
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chardev: add additional check for minor range overlap
[ Upstream commit de36e16d1557a0b6eb328bc3516359a12ba5c25c ] Current overlap checking cannot correctly handle a case which is baseminor < existing baseminor && baseminor + minorct > existing baseminor + minorct. Signed-off-by: Chengguang Xu <cgxu519@gmx.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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-rw-r--r--fs/char_dev.c6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/char_dev.c b/fs/char_dev.c
index 44a240c..a112a47 100644
--- a/fs/char_dev.c
+++ b/fs/char_dev.c
@@ -134,6 +134,12 @@ __register_chrdev_region(unsigned int major, unsigned int baseminor,
ret = -EBUSY;
goto out;
}
+
+ if (new_min < old_min && new_max > old_max) {
+ ret = -EBUSY;
+ goto out;
+ }
+
}
cd->next = *cp;