netdev - Re: out of bounds writes in net/hsr/

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Date:	Tue, 4 Mar 2014 17:07:23 +0100
From:	Arvid Brodin <arvid.brodin@...en.se>
To:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
CC:	<netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: out of bounds writes in net/hsr/

On 2014-03-04 04:27, Dave Jones wrote:
> I found this in coverity, and I think it's a real bug..
> 
> hsr_register_frame_in does a check that dev_idx is between 0 and 2,
> therefore, a dev_idx of 2 is possible when it gets to the array writes
> at the end of the function. 

Thanks for finding this; it is a bug (although I don't think it has 
actually lead to any out of bound accesses). 

However, I think you are a bit late - I believe this was fixed in a patch 
from Dan Carpenter just a few days ago. See

http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg272815.html


> #define HSR_MAX_DEV     (HSR_DEV_MASTER + 1)
> 
> The + 1 seems odd, and looking at the other uses of HSR_MAX_DEV, I can't
> figure out why it's there.
> 
> 	Dave
> 

Yes, maybe the names are a bit misleading, and they should be called something 
like HSR_DEVS and HSR_SLAVES instead. I.e.:

	some-type array-name[HSR_DEVS];

... where the last element is accessed by array-name[HSR_MAX_DEV].



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