linux-kernel - [PATCH] mfd: tps6507x - fix off-by-one value range checking

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Date:	Wed, 13 Oct 2010 10:44:39 +0800
From:	Axel Lin <axel.lin@...il.com>
To:	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:	Samuel Ortiz <sameo@...ux.intel.com>,
	Todd Fischer <todd.fischer@...gerun.com>
Subject: [PATCH] mfd: tps6507x - fix off-by-one value range checking

We use msg[0] for device register.
If bytes == (TPS6507X_MAX_REGISTER + 1),
we got a buffer overflow when doing memcpy(&msg[1], src, bytes);
Thus we must ensure bytes not greater than TPS6507X_MAX_REGISTER.

Signed-off-by: Axel Lin <axel.lin@...il.com>
---
 drivers/mfd/tps6507x.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/mfd/tps6507x.c b/drivers/mfd/tps6507x.c
index fc01976..33ba772 100644
--- a/drivers/mfd/tps6507x.c
+++ b/drivers/mfd/tps6507x.c
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ static int tps6507x_i2c_write_device(struct tps6507x_dev *tps6507x, char reg,
 	u8 msg[TPS6507X_MAX_REGISTER + 1];
 	int ret;
 
-	if (bytes > (TPS6507X_MAX_REGISTER + 1))
+	if (bytes > TPS6507X_MAX_REGISTER)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
 	msg[0] = reg;
-- 
1.7.2



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