Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/8] NFC: fix device allocation and nfcmrvl crashes

From: Johan Hovold <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2017 12:09:16 +0200

On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 12:15:34PM +0200, Johan Hovold wrote:
> This started out with the observation that the nfcmrvl_uart driver
> unconditionally dereferenced the tty class device despite the fact that
> not every tty has an associated struct device (Unix98 ptys). Some
> further changes were needed in the common nfcmrvl code to fully address
> this, some of which also incidentally fixed a few related bugs (e.g.
> resource leaks in error paths).
> 
> While fixing this I stumbled over a regression in NFC core that lead to
> broken registration error paths and misnamed workqueues.
> 
> Note that this has only been tested by configuring the n_hci line
> discipline for different ttys without any actual NFC hardware connected.

> Johan Hovold (8):
>   NFC: fix broken device allocation
>   NFC: nfcmrvl_uart: add missing tty-device sanity check
>   NFC: nfcmrvl: do not use device-managed resources
>   NFC: nfcmrvl: use nfc-device for firmware download
>   NFC: nfcmrvl: fix firmware-management initialisation
>   NFC: nfcmrvl_uart: fix device-node leak during probe
>   NFC: nfcmrvl_usb: use interface as phy device
>   NFC: nfcmrvl: allow gpio 0 for reset signalling

Any chance of getting these into 4.12, Samuel?

Note that patches 2 and 4 fixes NULL-derefs that can be triggered by an
unprivileged user.

Thanks,
Johan