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[PATCH] bna: integer overflow bug in debugfs

From: Dan Carpenter <hidden>
Date: 2017-03-17 20:52:35
Also in: kernel-janitors
Subsystem: brocade bna 10 gigabit ethernet driver, networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers: Rasesh Mody, Sudarsana Kalluru, Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds

We could allocate less memory than intended because we do:

	bnad->regdata = kzalloc(len << 2, GFP_KERNEL);

The shift can overflow leading to a crash.  This is debugfs code so the
impact is very small.

Fixes: 7afc5dbde091 ("bna: Add debugfs interface.")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <redacted>
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/brocade/bna/bnad_debugfs.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/brocade/bna/bnad_debugfs.c
index 05c1c1dd7751..cebfe3bd086e 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/brocade/bna/bnad_debugfs.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/brocade/bna/bnad_debugfs.c
@@ -325,7 +325,7 @@ bnad_debugfs_write_regrd(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
 		return PTR_ERR(kern_buf);
 
 	rc = sscanf(kern_buf, "%x:%x", &addr, &len);
-	if (rc < 2) {
+	if (rc < 2 || len > UINT_MAX >> 2) {
 		netdev_warn(bnad->netdev, "failed to read user buffer\n");
 		kfree(kern_buf);
 		return -EINVAL;
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