Patch "UBI: Validate data_size" has been added to the 4.1-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    UBI: Validate data_size

to the 4.1-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     ubi-validate-data_size.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.1 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 281fda27673f833a01d516658a64d22a32c8e072 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2015 23:58:07 +0200
Subject: UBI: Validate data_size

From: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>

commit 281fda27673f833a01d516658a64d22a32c8e072 upstream.

Make sure that data_size is less than LEB size.
Otherwise a handcrafted UBI image is able to trigger
an out of bounds memory access in ubi_compare_lebs().

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Reviewed-by: David Gstir <david@sigma-star.at>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/mtd/ubi/io.c |    5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

--- a/drivers/mtd/ubi/io.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/ubi/io.c
@@ -926,6 +926,11 @@ static int validate_vid_hdr(const struct
 		goto bad;
 	}
 
+	if (data_size > ubi->leb_size) {
+		ubi_err(ubi, "bad data_size");
+		goto bad;
+	}
+
 	if (vol_type == UBI_VID_STATIC) {
 		/*
 		 * Although from high-level point of view static volumes may


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from richard@nod.at are

queue-4.1/ubifs-kill-unneeded-locking-in-ubifs_init_security.patch
queue-4.1/ubi-validate-data_size.patch
queue-4.1/ubi-return-enospc-if-no-enough-space-available.patch