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authorArtem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>2010-01-05 17:25:59 +0200
committerArtem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>2010-01-12 13:19:15 +0200
commitb531b55a7bde8aa2bdf7023b3afc6df1bf3dcb67 (patch)
treed6045d623d645f6481ae5b1cab5e8288d293f345 /drivers
parentff998793288b49a3b22d929bf8e56362320905ff (diff)
UBI: add more checks to chdev open
When opening UBI volumes by their character device names, make sure we are opening character devices, not block devices or any other inode type. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/mtd/ubi/kapi.c15
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/mtd/ubi/kapi.c b/drivers/mtd/ubi/kapi.c
index 277786ebaa2c..1361574e2b00 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/ubi/kapi.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/ubi/kapi.c
@@ -291,8 +291,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ubi_open_volume_nm);
*/
struct ubi_volume_desc *ubi_open_volume_path(const char *pathname, int mode)
{
- int error, ubi_num, vol_id;
- struct ubi_volume_desc *ret;
+ int error, ubi_num, vol_id, mod;
struct inode *inode;
struct path path;
@@ -306,16 +305,16 @@ struct ubi_volume_desc *ubi_open_volume_path(const char *pathname, int mode)
return ERR_PTR(error);
inode = path.dentry->d_inode;
+ mod = inode->i_mode;
ubi_num = ubi_major2num(imajor(inode));
vol_id = iminor(inode) - 1;
+ path_put(&path);
+ if (!S_ISCHR(mod))
+ return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
if (vol_id >= 0 && ubi_num >= 0)
- ret = ubi_open_volume(ubi_num, vol_id, mode);
- else
- ret = ERR_PTR(-ENODEV);
-
- path_put(&path);
- return ret;
+ return ubi_open_volume(ubi_num, vol_id, mode);
+ return ERR_PTR(-ENODEV);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ubi_open_volume_path);