2.6.32-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

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From: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>

commit c19483cc5e56ac5e22dd19cf25ba210ab1537773 upstream.

Fortunately this is only exploitable on very unusual hardware.

[Reported a while ago but nothing happened so just fixing it]

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

---
 drivers/bluetooth/hci_ldisc.c |    7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

--- a/drivers/bluetooth/hci_ldisc.c
+++ b/drivers/bluetooth/hci_ldisc.c
@@ -258,9 +258,16 @@ static int hci_uart_tty_open(struct tty_
 
 	BT_DBG("tty %p", tty);
 
+	/* FIXME: This btw is bogus, nothing requires the old ldisc to clear
+	   the pointer */
 	if (hu)
 		return -EEXIST;
 
+	/* Error if the tty has no write op instead of leaving an exploitable
+	   hole */
+	if (tty->ops->write == NULL)
+		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+
 	if (!(hu = kzalloc(sizeof(struct hci_uart), GFP_KERNEL))) {
 		BT_ERR("Can't allocate control structure");
 		return -ENFILE;


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