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Message-ID: <20131030171251.GA4130@longonot.mountain>
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 20:12:51 +0300
From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To: "John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>
Cc: libertas-dev@...ts.infradead.org, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [patch v2] libertas: potential oops in debugfs
If we do a zero size allocation then it will oops. Also we can't be
sure the user passes us a NUL terminated string so I've added a
terminator.
This code can only be triggered by root.
Reported-by: Nico Golde <nico@...lde.de>
Reported-by: Fabian Yamaguchi <fabs@...sec.de>
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/debugfs.c b/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/debugfs.c
index 668dd27..1917348 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/debugfs.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/debugfs.c
@@ -913,7 +913,10 @@ static ssize_t lbs_debugfs_write(struct file *f, const char __user *buf,
char *p2;
struct debug_data *d = f->private_data;
- pdata = kmalloc(cnt, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (cnt == 0)
+ return 0;
+
+ pdata = kmalloc(cnt + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
if (pdata == NULL)
return 0;
@@ -922,6 +925,7 @@ static ssize_t lbs_debugfs_write(struct file *f, const char __user *buf,
kfree(pdata);
return 0;
}
+ pdata[cnt] = '\0';
p0 = pdata;
for (i = 0; i < num_of_items; i++) {
--
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