linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Libertas: fix buffer overflow in lbs_get

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Message-ID: <20091217010114.GA2913@tuxdriver.com>
Date:	Wed, 16 Dec 2009 20:01:15 -0500
From:	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>
To:	Daniel Mack <daniel@...aq.de>
Cc:	Dan Williams <dcbw@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Holger Schurig <holgerschurig@...il.com>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>,
	Maithili Hinge <maithili@...vell.com>,
	Kiran Divekar <dkiran@...vell.com>,
	Michael Hirsch <m.hirsch@...mfeld.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	libertas-dev@...ts.infradead.org, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
	stable@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Libertas: fix buffer overflow in lbs_get_essid()

On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 07:15:08AM +0800, Daniel Mack wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 08:57:47AM -0800, Dan Williams wrote:
> > On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 05:12 +0100, Daniel Mack wrote:
> > > The libertas driver copies the SSID buffer back to the wireless core and
> > > appends a trailing NULL character for termination. This is
> > > 
> > > a) unnecessary because the buffer is allocated with kzalloc and is hence
> > >    already NULLed when this function is called, and
> > > 
> > > b) for priv->curbssparams.ssid_len == 32, it writes back one byte too
> > >    much which causes memory corruptions.
> > > 
> > > Fix this by removing the extra write.
> > 
> > Acked-by: Dan Williams <dcbw@...hat.com>
> 
> Thanks, everyone. Who will care to pick an queue this one?

Is there some reason it wouldn't be me?

John
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