linux-kernel - [PATCH] gpio-hammer: Avoid potential overflow in main

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Message-Id: <20200312142142.1846910-1-gabravier@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 12 Mar 2020 15:21:42 +0100
From:   Gabriel Ravier <gabravier@...il.com>
To:     linus.walleij@...aro.org, bgolaszewski@...libre.com
Cc:     linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Gabriel Ravier <gabravier@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH] gpio-hammer: Avoid potential overflow in main

If '-o' was used more than 64 times in a single invocation of gpio-hammer,
this could lead to an overflow of the 'lines' array. This commit fixes
this by avoiding the overflow and giving a proper diagnostic back to the
user

Signed-off-by: Gabriel Ravier <gabravier@...il.com>
---
 tools/gpio/gpio-hammer.c | 17 ++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/gpio/gpio-hammer.c b/tools/gpio/gpio-hammer.c
index 0e0060a6e..d0be21af1 100644
--- a/tools/gpio/gpio-hammer.c
+++ b/tools/gpio/gpio-hammer.c
@@ -135,7 +135,14 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
 			device_name = optarg;
 			break;
 		case 'o':
-			lines[i] = strtoul(optarg, NULL, 10);
+			/*
+			 * Avoid overflow. Do not immediately error, we want to
+			 * be able to accurately report on the amount of times
+			 *'-o' was given to give an accurate error message
+			 */
+			if (i < GPIOHANDLES_MAX)
+				lines[i] = strtoul(optarg, NULL, 10);
+
 			i++;
 			break;
 		case '?':
@@ -143,6 +150,14 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
 			return -1;
 		}
 	}
+
+	if (i >= GPIOHANDLES_MAX) {
+		fprintf(stderr,
+			"Only %d occurences of '-o' are allowed, %d were found\n",
+			GPIOHANDLES_MAX, i + 1);
+		return -1;
+	}
+
 	nlines = i;
 
 	if (!device_name || !nlines) {
-- 
2.24.1