linux/drivers/w1
Michal Nazarewicz bb67093796 drivers: w1: make w1_slave::flags long to avoid memory corruption
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>
2013-11-13 12:09:35 +09:00
..
masters drivers/w1/masters/ds1wm.cuse dev_get_platdata() 2013-11-13 12:09:35 +09:00
slaves w1: slaves: w1_ds2781: convert to use w1_family_ops.groups 2013-08-22 11:05:44 -07:00
Kconfig Kconfig: replace "--- help ---" with "---help---" 2012-05-07 15:01:22 +02:00
Makefile
w1_family.c drivers/w1: Add export.h for EXPORT_SYMBOL/THIS_MODULE 2011-10-31 19:32:00 -04:00
w1_family.h w1: add attribute groups to struct w1_family_ops 2013-08-22 11:05:42 -07:00
w1_int.c w1: Fix a typo in 'hardware' word 2012-06-18 16:41:06 -07:00
w1_int.h MAINTAINERS: Evgeniy has moved 2011-08-25 16:25:33 -07:00
w1_io.c w1: Disable irqs during 1-wire bus operations, extend 1-wire reset pulse 2012-04-11 16:44:10 -07:00
w1_log.h MAINTAINERS: Evgeniy has moved 2011-08-25 16:25:33 -07:00
w1_netlink.c MAINTAINERS: Evgeniy has moved 2011-08-25 16:25:33 -07:00
w1_netlink.h MAINTAINERS: Evgeniy has moved 2011-08-25 16:25:33 -07:00
w1.c drivers: w1: make w1_slave::flags long to avoid memory corruption 2013-11-13 12:09:35 +09:00
w1.h drivers: w1: make w1_slave::flags long to avoid memory corruption 2013-11-13 12:09:35 +09:00