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Subject[PATCH] Speakup: fix a segfault caused by switching consoles
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This patch fixes a segfault by adding a null check on synth in
speakup_con_update(). The segfault can be reproduced as follows:

- Login into a text console

- Load speakup and speakup_soft modules

- Remove speakup_soft

- Switch to a graphics console

This is caused by lack of a null check on `synth` in
speakup_con_update().

Here's the sequence that causes the segfault:

- When we remove the speakup_soft, synth_release() sets the synth
to null.

- After that, when we change the virtual console to graphics
console, vt_notifier_call() is fired, which then calls
speakup_con_update().

- Inside speakup_con_update() there's no null check on synth,
so it calls synth_printf().

- Inside synth_printf(), synth_buffer_add() and synth_start(),
both access synth, when it is null and causing a segfault.

Therefore adding a null check on synth solves the issue.

Signed-off-by: Mushahid Hussain <mushi.shar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
---
drivers/accessibility/speakup/main.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/accessibility/speakup/main.c b/drivers/accessibility/speakup/main.c
index f52265293482..73db0cb44fc7 100644
--- a/drivers/accessibility/speakup/main.c
+++ b/drivers/accessibility/speakup/main.c
@@ -1778,7 +1778,7 @@ static void speakup_con_update(struct vc_data *vc)
{
unsigned long flags;

- if (!speakup_console[vc->vc_num] || spk_parked)
+ if (!speakup_console[vc->vc_num] || spk_parked || !synth)
return;
if (!spin_trylock_irqsave(&speakup_info.spinlock, flags))
/* Speakup output, discard */
--
2.38.0
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