netdev - [patch] irda: off by one

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Date:	Sat, 4 Sep 2010 15:14:35 +0200
From:	Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>
To:	Samuel Ortiz <samuel@...tiz.org>
Cc:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
	Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [patch] irda: off by one

This is an off by one.  We would go past the end when we NUL terminate
the "value" string at end of the function.  The "value" buffer is
allocated in irlan_client_parse_response() or
irlan_provider_parse_command().

CC: stable@...nel.org
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>

diff --git a/net/irda/irlan/irlan_common.c b/net/irda/irlan/irlan_common.c
index a788f9e..6130f9d 100644
--- a/net/irda/irlan/irlan_common.c
+++ b/net/irda/irlan/irlan_common.c
@@ -1102,7 +1102,7 @@ int irlan_extract_param(__u8 *buf, char *name, char *value, __u16 *len)
 	memcpy(&val_len, buf+n, 2); /* To avoid alignment problems */
 	le16_to_cpus(&val_len); n+=2;
 
-	if (val_len > 1016) {
+	if (val_len >= 1016) {
 		IRDA_DEBUG(2, "%s(), parameter length to long\n", __func__ );
 		return -RSP_INVALID_COMMAND_FORMAT;
 	}
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