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Message-ID: <2148581.S8tzak9aE2@uw000953>
Date:	Thu, 7 Feb 2013 11:16:01 +0100
From:	Szymon Janc <szymon.janc@...to.com>
To:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
CC:	Lauro Ramos Venancio <lauro.venancio@...nbossa.org>,
	Aloisio Almeida Jr <aloisio.almeida@...nbossa.org>,
	Samuel Ortiz <sameo@...ux.intel.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>,
	Thierry Escande <thierry.escande@...ux.intel.com>,
	"linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-nfc@...1.01.org" <linux-nfc@...1.01.org>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org" <kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] NFC: llcp: integer underflow in nfc_llcp_set_remote_gb()

Hi Dan,

On Thursday 31 of January 2013 10:16:46 Dan Carpenter wrote:
> If gb_len is less than 3 it would cause an integer underflow and
> possibly memory corruption in nfc_llcp_parse_gb_tlv().
> 
> I removed the old test for gb_len == 0.  I also removed the test for
> ->remote_gb == NULL.  It's not possible for ->remote_gb to be NULL and
> we have already dereferenced ->remote_gb_len so it's too late to test.
> 
> The old test return -ENODEV but my test returns -EINVAL.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
> 
> diff --git a/net/nfc/llcp/llcp.c b/net/nfc/llcp/llcp.c
> index 85bc75c..746f5a2 100644
> --- a/net/nfc/llcp/llcp.c
> +++ b/net/nfc/llcp/llcp.c
> @@ -549,14 +549,13 @@ int nfc_llcp_set_remote_gb(struct nfc_dev *dev, u8 *gb, u8 gb_len)
>  		pr_err("No LLCP device\n");
>  		return -ENODEV;
>  	}
> +	if (gb_len < 3)
> +		return -EINVAL;

Maybe define NFC_MIN_GT_LEN and test it together with NFC_MAX_GT_LEN in
nfc_set_remote_general_bytes() ?

>  
>  	memset(local->remote_gb, 0, NFC_MAX_GT_LEN);
>  	memcpy(local->remote_gb, gb, gb_len);
>  	local->remote_gb_len = gb_len;
>  
> -	if (local->remote_gb == NULL || local->remote_gb_len == 0)
> -		return -ENODEV;
> -
>  	if (memcmp(local->remote_gb, llcp_magic, 3)) {
>  		pr_err("MAC does not support LLCP\n");
>  		return -EINVAL;

-- 
BR
Szymon Janc
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