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-rw-r--r--drivers/base/firmware_loader/main.c31
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 20 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/base/firmware_loader/main.c b/drivers/base/firmware_loader/main.c
index 44486b2c7172..6942c62fa59d 100644
--- a/drivers/base/firmware_loader/main.c
+++ b/drivers/base/firmware_loader/main.c
@@ -822,26 +822,6 @@ static void fw_log_firmware_info(const struct firmware *fw, const char *name,
{}
#endif
-/*
- * Reject firmware file names with ".." path components.
- * There are drivers that construct firmware file names from device-supplied
- * strings, and we don't want some device to be able to tell us "I would like to
- * be sent my firmware from ../../../etc/shadow, please".
- *
- * Search for ".." surrounded by either '/' or start/end of string.
- *
- * This intentionally only looks at the firmware name, not at the firmware base
- * directory or at symlink contents.
- */
-static bool name_contains_dotdot(const char *name)
-{
- size_t name_len = strlen(name);
-
- return strcmp(name, "..") == 0 || strncmp(name, "../", 3) == 0 ||
- strstr(name, "/../") != NULL ||
- (name_len >= 3 && strcmp(name+name_len-3, "/..") == 0);
-}
-
/* called from request_firmware() and request_firmware_work_func() */
static int
_request_firmware(const struct firmware **firmware_p, const char *name,
@@ -862,6 +842,17 @@ _request_firmware(const struct firmware **firmware_p, const char *name,
goto out;
}
+
+ /*
+ * Reject firmware file names with ".." path components.
+ * There are drivers that construct firmware file names from
+ * device-supplied strings, and we don't want some device to be
+ * able to tell us "I would like to be sent my firmware from
+ * ../../../etc/shadow, please".
+ *
+ * This intentionally only looks at the firmware name, not at
+ * the firmware base directory or at symlink contents.
+ */
if (name_contains_dotdot(name)) {
dev_warn(device,
"Firmware load for '%s' refused, path contains '..' component\n",