Re: [patch v2] libertas: potential oops in debugfs
From: Dan Williams <hidden>
Date: 2013-10-30 19:52:25
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On Wed, 2013-10-30 at 20:12 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
If we do a zero size allocation then it will oops. Also we can't be sure the user passes us a NUL terminated string so I've added a terminator. This code can only be triggered by root. Reported-by: Nico Golde <redacted> Reported-by: Fabian Yamaguchi <redacted> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <redacted>
Acked-by: Dan Williams <redacted>
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/debugfs.c b/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/debugfs.c index 668dd27..1917348 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/debugfs.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/debugfs.c@@ -913,7 +913,10 @@ static ssize_t lbs_debugfs_write(struct file *f, const char __user *buf, char *p2; struct debug_data *d = f->private_data; - pdata = kmalloc(cnt, GFP_KERNEL); + if (cnt == 0) + return 0; + + pdata = kmalloc(cnt + 1, GFP_KERNEL); if (pdata == NULL) return 0;@@ -922,6 +925,7 @@ static ssize_t lbs_debugfs_write(struct file *f, const char __user *buf, kfree(pdata); return 0; } + pdata[cnt] = '\0'; p0 = pdata; for (i = 0; i < num_of_items; i++) { --To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html