From c95789ecd5a979fd718ae09763df3fa50dd97a91 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hans Verkuil Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2013 10:53:07 -0300 Subject: [media] cx25821: do not expose broken video output streams The cx25821 driver has support for one audio output channel and two video output channels. This is implemented in a very ugly and very evil way through a custom ioctl that passes the filename of a file containing the video data, which is then read by the driver itself using vfs. There are a number of problems with this: 1) it's very ugly and very evil (I can't say that often enough). 2) V4L2 supports video output, so why not use that? 3) it's very buggy, closing the filehandle through which you passed the ioctl will oops the kernel. 4) it's a nasty security leak since this allows you to load any file in the system as a video or audio source, so in theory you can output /etc/passwd to audio or video out and record & decode it on another device. Because of all these issues we no longer register those output video nodes. Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab --- drivers/media/pci/cx25821/cx25821-video.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'drivers') diff --git a/drivers/media/pci/cx25821/cx25821-video.c b/drivers/media/pci/cx25821/cx25821-video.c index d4de021dc84..31ce7698acb 100644 --- a/drivers/media/pci/cx25821/cx25821-video.c +++ b/drivers/media/pci/cx25821/cx25821-video.c @@ -461,7 +461,7 @@ int cx25821_video_register(struct cx25821_dev *dev) spin_lock_init(&dev->slock); - for (i = 0; i < MAX_VID_CHANNEL_NUM - 1; ++i) { + for (i = 0; i < VID_CHANNEL_NUM; ++i) { cx25821_init_controls(dev, i); cx25821_risc_stopper(dev->pci, &dev->channels[i].vidq.stopper, -- cgit v1.2.3