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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [patch 2/2] Staging: vt6655: add some range checks before memcpy()
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 06:10:09 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111020061009.GC6101@elgon.mountain> (raw)

There were no range checks in the original code so the user could
write past the end of the array.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>

diff --git a/drivers/staging/vt6655/ioctl.c b/drivers/staging/vt6655/ioctl.c
index 6718cfd..432a209 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/vt6655/ioctl.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/vt6655/ioctl.c
@@ -82,6 +82,8 @@ int private_ioctl(PSDevice pDevice, struct ifreq *rq)
 		}
 
 		pItemSSID = (PWLAN_IE_SSID)sScanCmd.ssid;
+		if (pItemSSID->len > WLAN_SSID_MAXLEN + 1)
+			return -EINVAL;
 		if (pItemSSID->len != 0) {
 			memset(abyScanSSID, 0, WLAN_IEHDR_LEN + WLAN_SSID_MAXLEN + 1);
 			memcpy(abyScanSSID, pItemSSID, pItemSSID->len + WLAN_IEHDR_LEN);
@@ -168,6 +170,8 @@ int private_ioctl(PSDevice pDevice, struct ifreq *rq)
 		}
 
 		pItemSSID = (PWLAN_IE_SSID)sJoinCmd.ssid;
+		if (pItemSSID->len > WLAN_SSID_MAXLEN + 1)
+			return -EINVAL;
 		memset(pMgmt->abyDesireSSID, 0, WLAN_IEHDR_LEN + WLAN_SSID_MAXLEN + 1);
 		memcpy(pMgmt->abyDesireSSID, pItemSSID, pItemSSID->len + WLAN_IEHDR_LEN);
 		if (sJoinCmd.wBSSType = ADHOC) {
@@ -490,6 +494,8 @@ int private_ioctl(PSDevice pDevice, struct ifreq *rq)
 		}
 
 		pItemSSID = (PWLAN_IE_SSID)sStartAPCmd.ssid;
+		if (pItemSSID->len > WLAN_SSID_MAXLEN + 1)
+			return -EINVAL;
 		memset(pMgmt->abyDesireSSID, 0, WLAN_IEHDR_LEN + WLAN_SSID_MAXLEN + 1);
 		memcpy(pMgmt->abyDesireSSID, pItemSSID, pItemSSID->len + WLAN_IEHDR_LEN);
 

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