Commit 4b4fd27c0b5ec638a1f06ced9226fd95229dbbf0

Authored by Helge Deller
Committed by Linus Torvalds
1 parent 9fe6206f40

PARISC: led.c - fix potential stack overflow in led_proc_write()

avoid potential stack overflow by correctly checking count parameter

Reported-by: Ilja <ilja@netric.org>
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: James E.J. Bottomley <jejb@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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drivers/parisc/led.c
... ... @@ -176,16 +176,18 @@
176 176 size_t count, loff_t *pos)
177 177 {
178 178 void *data = PDE(file->f_path.dentry->d_inode)->data;
179   - char *cur, lbuf[count + 1];
  179 + char *cur, lbuf[32];
180 180 int d;
181 181  
182 182 if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
183 183 return -EACCES;
184 184  
185   - memset(lbuf, 0, count + 1);
  185 + if (count >= sizeof(lbuf))
  186 + count = sizeof(lbuf)-1;
186 187  
187 188 if (copy_from_user(lbuf, buf, count))
188 189 return -EFAULT;
  190 + lbuf[count] = 0;
189 191  
190 192 cur = lbuf;
191 193