netdev - Re: [PATCH] bna: integer overflow bug in debugfs

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Date:   Tue, 21 Mar 2017 17:43:47 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     dan.carpenter@...cle.com
Cc:     rasesh.mody@...ium.com, kgudipat@...cade.com,
        sudarsana.kalluru@...ium.com, Dept-GELinuxNICDev@...ium.com,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bna: integer overflow bug in debugfs

From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 23:52:35 +0300

> 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 <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>

Applied.