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drivers: w1: make w1_slave::flags long to avoid memory corruption
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On architectures where long is more then 32 bits, modifying a 32-bit field
with set_bit (and other atomic bit operations) may cause bytes following
the field to by modified.

Because the endianness of the bits within a field is the native endianness
of the CPU[1], on big-endian machines, bit number zero is in the last byte
of the field.

Therefore, `set_bit(0, ptr)' on a 64-bit big-endian machine is roughly
equivalent to `((char *)ptr)[7] |= 1', and since w1 driver uses a 32-bit
field for holding the flags, this causes bytes beyond the field to be
modified.

[1] From Documentation/atomic_ops.txt:

    Native atomic bit operations are defined to operate on objects
    aligned to the size of an "unsigned long" C data type, and are
    least of that size.  The endianness of the bits within each
    "unsigned long" are the native endianness of the cpu.

Signed-off-by: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
Cc: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Michal Nazarewicz authored and Linus Torvalds committed Nov 13, 2013
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10 changes: 5 additions & 5 deletions drivers/w1/w1.c
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Expand Up @@ -709,7 +709,7 @@ static int w1_attach_slave_device(struct w1_master *dev, struct w1_reg_num *rn)

sl->owner = THIS_MODULE;
sl->master = dev;
set_bit(W1_SLAVE_ACTIVE, (long *)&sl->flags);
set_bit(W1_SLAVE_ACTIVE, &sl->flags);

memset(&msg, 0, sizeof(msg));
memcpy(&sl->reg_num, rn, sizeof(sl->reg_num));
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sl = w1_slave_search_device(dev, tmp);
if (sl) {
set_bit(W1_SLAVE_ACTIVE, (long *)&sl->flags);
set_bit(W1_SLAVE_ACTIVE, &sl->flags);
} else {
if (rn && tmp->crc == w1_calc_crc8((u8 *)&rn_le, 7))
w1_attach_slave_device(dev, tmp);
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struct w1_slave *sl, *sln;

list_for_each_entry(sl, &dev->slist, w1_slave_entry)
clear_bit(W1_SLAVE_ACTIVE, (long *)&sl->flags);
clear_bit(W1_SLAVE_ACTIVE, &sl->flags);

w1_search_devices(dev, search_type, cb);

list_for_each_entry_safe(sl, sln, &dev->slist, w1_slave_entry) {
if (!test_bit(W1_SLAVE_ACTIVE, (unsigned long *)&sl->flags) && !--sl->ttl)
if (!test_bit(W1_SLAVE_ACTIVE, &sl->flags) && !--sl->ttl)
w1_slave_detach(sl);
else if (test_bit(W1_SLAVE_ACTIVE, (unsigned long *)&sl->flags))
else if (test_bit(W1_SLAVE_ACTIVE, &sl->flags))
sl->ttl = dev->slave_ttl;
}

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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion drivers/w1/w1.h
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Expand Up @@ -67,8 +67,8 @@ struct w1_slave
struct w1_reg_num reg_num;
atomic_t refcnt;
u8 rom[9];
u32 flags;
int ttl;
unsigned long flags;

struct w1_master *master;
struct w1_family *family;
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