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Commit f0992098 authored by Samuel Thibault's avatar Samuel Thibault Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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speakup: Reject setting the speakup line discipline outside of speakup



Speakup exposing a line discipline allows userland to try to use it,
while it is deemed to be useless, and thus uselessly exposes potential
bugs. One of them is simply that in such a case if the line sends data,
spk_ttyio_receive_buf2 is called and crashes since spk_ttyio_synth
is NULL.

This change restricts the use of the speakup line discipline to
speakup drivers, thus avoiding such kind of issues altogether.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: default avatarShisong Qin <qinshisong1205@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSamuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Tested-by: default avatarShisong Qin <qinshisong1205@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201129193523.hm3f6n5xrn6fiyyc@function


Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent b6505459
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