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

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Date:	Wed, 16 Dec 2009 17:19:12 -0800
From:	Dan Williams <dcbw@...hat.com>
To:	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>
Cc:	Daniel Mack <daniel@...aq.de>, 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 Wed, 2009-12-16 at 20:01 -0500, John W. Linville wrote:
> 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?

No, it should be you.  Please suck it into your 2.6.33 patchset and
we'll cc to stable when it hits linus I guess.

Dan


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