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Kent Gibson
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The initialisation of the linereq events kfifo relies on the struct being zeroed and a subsequent call to kfifo_alloc(). The call to kfifo_alloc() is deferred until edge detection is first enabled for the linereq. If the kfifo is inadvertently accessed before the call to kfifo_alloc(), as was the case in a recently discovered bug, it behaves as a FIFO of size 1 with an element size of 0, so writes and reads to the kfifo appear successful but copy no actual data. As a defensive measure, initialise the kfifo with INIT_KFIFO() when the events kfifo is constructed. This initialises the kfifo element size and zeroes its data pointer, so any inadvertant access prior to the kfifo_alloc() call will trigger an oops. Signed-off-by: Kent Gibson <warthog618@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240529131953.195777-2-warthog618@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@linaro.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.