From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030881Ab2I1TIL (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Sep 2012 15:08:11 -0400 Received: from mail-pb0-f46.google.com ([209.85.160.46]:33712 "EHLO mail-pb0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030850Ab2I1THO (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Sep 2012 15:07:14 -0400 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg KH , alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, Dan Carpenter , Dave Airlie Subject: [ 262/262] vmwgfx: corruption in vmw_event_fence_action_create() Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 11:53:11 -0700 Message-Id: <20120928183029.476862989@linuxfoundation.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.10.1.362.g242cab3 In-Reply-To: <20120928182957.993484211@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20120928182957.993484211@linuxfoundation.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.60-2.1.2 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Greg KH 3.5-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Dan Carpenter commit 68c4fce737c4b963e336435f225621dc21138397 upstream. We don't allocate enough data for this struct. As soon as we start modifying event->event on the next lines, then we're going beyond the end of the memory we allocated. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_fence.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_fence.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_fence.c @@ -1018,7 +1018,7 @@ int vmw_event_fence_action_create(struct } - event = kzalloc(sizeof(event->event), GFP_KERNEL); + event = kzalloc(sizeof(*event), GFP_KERNEL); if (unlikely(event == NULL)) { DRM_ERROR("Failed to allocate an event.\n"); ret = -ENOMEM;