netdev - Re: [PATCH] isdn: eicon: fix a missing-check bug

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Date:   Fri, 18 May 2018 14:41:29 -0500
From:   Wenwen Wang <wang6495@....edu>
To:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     Kangjie Lu <kjlu@....edu>, Armin Schindler <mac@...ware.de>,
        Karsten Keil <isdn@...ux-pingi.de>,
        "open list:NETWORKING [GENERAL]" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Wenwen Wang <wang6495@....edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] isdn: eicon: fix a missing-check bug

Thanks for your suggestion, David! I will revise the patch and resubmit it.

Wenwen

On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 2:50 PM, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
> From: Wenwen Wang <wang6495@....edu>
> Date: Sat,  5 May 2018 14:32:46 -0500
>
>> To avoid such issues, this patch adds a check after the second copy in the
>> function diva_xdi_write(). If the adapter number is not equal to the one
>> obtained in the first copy, (-4) will be returned to divas_write(), which
>> will then return an error code -EINVAL.
>
> Better fix is to copy the msg header once into an on-stack buffer supplied
> by diva_write() to diva_xdi_open_adapter(), which is then passed on to
> diva_xdi_write() with an adjusted src pointer and length.