chardev: add a check for given minor range
authorChengguang Xu <cgxu519@gmx.com>
Fri, 15 Feb 2019 12:27:12 +0000 (20:27 +0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 2 Apr 2019 15:49:58 +0000 (17:49 +0200)
commit4712d3796f19b32241b41e538107fb7ae7a3fcff
tree662545733a34a647a2c884312617c8cb0c48168e
parentde36e16d1557a0b6eb328bc3516359a12ba5c25c
chardev: add a check for given minor range

register_chrdev_region() carefully checks minor range
before calling __register_chrdev_region() but there is
another path from alloc_chrdev_region() which does not
check the range properly. So add a check for given minor
range in __register_chrdev_region().

Signed-off-by: Chengguang Xu <cgxu519@gmx.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
fs/char_dev.c