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* [PATCH] braille_console: Read buffer overflow
@ 2009-08-11 14:36 Roel Kluin
  2009-08-11 14:41 ` Samuel Thibault
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Roel Kluin @ 2009-08-11 14:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: samuel.thibault, Andrew Morton, LKML

Prevent write to console_buf[-1]

Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
---
If console_newline is true and console_cursor equals WIDTH
c is written to console_buf[-1].

diff --git a/drivers/accessibility/braille/braille_console.c b/drivers/accessibility/braille/braille_console.c
index d672cfe..fb4075b 100644
--- a/drivers/accessibility/braille/braille_console.c
+++ b/drivers/accessibility/braille/braille_console.c
@@ -322,7 +322,8 @@ static int vt_notifier_call(struct notifier_block *blk,
 					(WIDTH-1) * sizeof(*console_buf));
 			else
 				console_cursor++;
-			console_buf[console_cursor-1] = c;
+			if (console_cursor != 0)
+				console_buf[console_cursor-1] = c;
 			break;
 		}
 		if (console_show)

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* Re: [PATCH] braille_console: Read buffer overflow
  2009-08-11 14:36 [PATCH] braille_console: Read buffer overflow Roel Kluin
@ 2009-08-11 14:41 ` Samuel Thibault
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Samuel Thibault @ 2009-08-11 14:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Roel Kluin; +Cc: Andrew Morton, LKML

Roel Kluin, le Tue 11 Aug 2009 16:36:42 +0200, a écrit :
> If console_newline is true and console_cursor equals WIDTH

Err, that can never happen since when console_newline is true,
console_cursor is reset to 0, then incremented to 1.

Samuel

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