linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] snic: correctly check for array overrun on overly long version number

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Date:	Tue, 01 Mar 2016 20:09:44 -0500
From:	"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
To:	Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
Cc:	Narsimhulu Musini <nmusini@...co.com>,
	Sesidhar Baddela <sebaddel@...co.com>,
	"James E . J . Bottomley" <JBottomley@...n.com>,
	"Martin K . Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
	linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] snic: correctly check for array overrun on overly long version number

>>>>> "Colin" == Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com> writes:

Colin> The snic version number is expected to be 4 decimals in the form
Colin> like a netmask string with each number stored in an element in
Colin> array v.  However, there is an off-by-one check on the number of
Colin> elements in v allowing one to pass a 5 decimal version number
Colin> causing v[4] to be referenced, causing a buffer overrun.  Fix the
Colin> off-by-one error by comparing to i > 3 rather than 4.

Applied to 4.6/scsi-queue.

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Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering