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Message-Id: <6414679A-65C7-46EA-A4D7-3CFC02780D28@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 11:53:01 -0500
From: Xi Wang <xi.wang@...il.com>
To: Ian Abbott <abbotti@....co.uk>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
"devel@...verdev.osuosl.org" <devel@...verdev.osuosl.org>,
Mori Hess <fmhess@...rs.sourceforge.net>,
"security@...nel.org" <security@...nel.org>,
Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@...fusion.mobi>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>,
Ian Abbott <ian.abbott@....co.uk>,
Franky Lin <frankyl@...adcom.com>,
Greg Dietsche <Gregory.Dietsche@....edu>,
Mark Pearson <markpearson_de@...oo.de>
Subject: [PATCH v2] comedi: integer overflow in do_insnlist_ioctl()
There is a potential integer overflow in do_insnlist_ioctl() if
userspace passes in a large insnlist.n_insns. The call to kmalloc()
would allocate a small buffer, leading to a memory corruption.
Reported-by: Haogang Chen <haogangchen@...il.com>
Suggested-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Suggested-by: Ian Abbott <abbotti@....co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Xi Wang <xi.wang@...il.com>
---
drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c | 5 +++--
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c b/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c
index 21d8c1c..df86a9e 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c
@@ -670,8 +670,9 @@ static int do_insnlist_ioctl(struct comedi_device *dev,
goto error;
}
- insns =
- kmalloc(sizeof(struct comedi_insn) * insnlist.n_insns, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (insnlist.n_insns <= ULONG_MAX / sizeof(struct comedi_insn))
+ insns = kmalloc(sizeof(struct comedi_insn) * insnlist.n_insns,
+ GFP_KERNEL);
if (!insns) {
DPRINTK("kmalloc failed\n");
ret = -ENOMEM;
--
1.7.5.4
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