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comedi: dt2815: add hardware detection to prevent crash
authorDeepanshu Kartikey <kartikey406@gmail.com>
Mon, 9 Mar 2026 10:48:59 +0000 (16:18 +0530)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 2 Apr 2026 12:40:27 +0000 (14:40 +0200)
commit93853512f565e625df2397f0d8050d6aafd7c3ad
tree61ea1e7e2561077a780d127587506ecb4c50f8c2
parent29f644f14b89e6c4965e3c89251929e451190a66
comedi: dt2815: add hardware detection to prevent crash

The dt2815 driver crashes when attached to I/O ports without actual
hardware present. This occurs because syzkaller or users can attach
the driver to arbitrary I/O addresses via COMEDI_DEVCONFIG ioctl.

When no hardware exists at the specified port, inb() operations return
0xff (floating bus), but outb() operations can trigger page faults due
to undefined behavior, especially under race conditions:

  BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: 000000007fffff90
  #PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode
  #PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page
  RIP: 0010:dt2815_attach+0x6e0/0x1110

Add hardware detection by reading the status register before attempting
any write operations. If the read returns 0xff, assume no hardware is
present and fail the attach with -ENODEV. This prevents crashes from
outb() operations on non-existent hardware.

Reported-by: syzbot+72f94b474d6e50b71ffc@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=72f94b474d6e50b71ffc
Tested-by: syzbot+72f94b474d6e50b71ffc@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Reviewed-by: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Deepanshu Kartikey <kartikey406@gmail.com>
Link: [https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260126070458.10974-1-kartikey406@gmail.com/T/]
Link: [https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260126070458.10974-1-kartikey406@gmail.com/T/
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260309104859.503529-1-kartikey406@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/comedi/drivers/dt2815.c