linux-kernel - [PATCH] stm: Potential read overflow in stm_char_policy_set

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Message-ID: <20170810122250.desrz5rvyjheyltg@mwanda>
Date:   Thu, 10 Aug 2017 15:45:10 +0300
From:   Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:     Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] stm: Potential read overflow in stm_char_policy_set_ioctl()

The "size" variable comes from the user so we need to verify that it's
large enough to hold an stp_policy_id struct.

Fixes: 7bd1d4093c2f ("stm class: Introduce an abstraction for System Trace Module devices")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>

diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/stm/core.c b/drivers/hwtracing/stm/core.c
index 0e731143f6a4..9414900575d8 100644
--- a/drivers/hwtracing/stm/core.c
+++ b/drivers/hwtracing/stm/core.c
@@ -566,7 +566,7 @@ static int stm_char_policy_set_ioctl(struct stm_file *stmf, void __user *arg)
 	if (copy_from_user(&size, arg, sizeof(size)))
 		return -EFAULT;
 
-	if (size >= PATH_MAX + sizeof(*id))
+	if (size < sizeof(*id) || size >= PATH_MAX + sizeof(*id))
 		return -EINVAL;
 
 	/*