Thread (4 messages) 4 messages, 3 authors, 2012-05-05

Re: [patch] max17042_battery: fix a couple buffer overflows

From: Dirk Brandewie <hidden>
Date: 2012-03-15 17:20:42
Also in: kernel-janitors, lkml

On 03/15/2012 04:37 AM, Dan Carpenter wrote:
There are a couple issues here caused by confusion between sizeof()
and ARRAY_SIZE().  "table_size" should be the number of elements, but we
should allocate it with kcalloc() so that we allocate the correct number
of bytes.

In max17042_init_model() we don't allocate enough space so we go past
the end of the array in max17042_read_model_data() and
max17042_model_data_compare().

In max17042_verify_model_lock() we allocate the right amount of space
but we call max17042_read_model_data() with the wrong number of elements
and also in the for loop we go past the end of the array.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter<redacted>
Acked-by: Dirk Brandewie <redacted>

Typo in first ack :-(
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
---
I don't have this hardware.  The original code is clearly buggy, but I
can't test that my fix is correct.  Please review carefully.
diff --git a/drivers/power/max17042_battery.c b/drivers/power/max17042_battery.c
index e36763a..f8cd48c 100644
--- a/drivers/power/max17042_battery.c
+++ b/drivers/power/max17042_battery.c
@@ -328,11 +328,10 @@ static inline int max17042_model_data_compare(struct max17042_chip *chip,
  static int max17042_init_model(struct max17042_chip *chip)
  {
  	int ret;
-	int table_size =
-		sizeof(chip->pdata->config_data->cell_char_tbl)/sizeof(u16);
+	int table_size = ARRAY_SIZE(chip->pdata->config_data->cell_char_tbl);
  	u16 *temp_data;

-	temp_data = kzalloc(table_size, GFP_KERNEL);
+	temp_data = kcalloc(table_size, sizeof(*temp_data), GFP_KERNEL);
  	if (!temp_data)
  		return -ENOMEM;
@@ -357,12 +356,11 @@ static int max17042_init_model(struct max17042_chip *chip)
  static int max17042_verify_model_lock(struct max17042_chip *chip)
  {
  	int i;
-	int table_size =
-		sizeof(chip->pdata->config_data->cell_char_tbl);
+	int table_size = ARRAY_SIZE(chip->pdata->config_data->cell_char_tbl);
  	u16 *temp_data;
  	int ret = 0;

-	temp_data = kzalloc(table_size, GFP_KERNEL);
+	temp_data = kcalloc(table_size, sizeof(*temp_data), GFP_KERNEL);
  	if (!temp_data)
  		return -ENOMEM;
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