From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 2/2] staging: r8188eu: overflow in rtw_p2p_get_go_device_address()
Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2014 02:51:30 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52F44A32.7040102@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140203223835.GB28874@elgon.mountain>
On 02/03/2014 04:38 PM, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> The go_devadd_str[] array is two characters too small to hold the
> address so we corrupt memory.
>
> I've changed the user space API slightly and I don't have a way to test
> if this breaks anything. In the original code we truncated away the
> last digit of the address and the NUL terminator so it was already a bit
> broken.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Nothing seems to be broken.
Acked-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Larry
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c
> index dec992569476..4ad80ae1067f 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c
> @@ -3164,9 +3164,7 @@ static int rtw_p2p_get_go_device_address(struct net_device *dev,
> u8 *p2pie;
> uint p2pielen = 0, attr_contentlen = 0;
> u8 attr_content[100] = {0x00};
> -
> - u8 go_devadd_str[17 + 10] = {0x00};
> - /* +10 is for the str "go_devadd =", we have to clear it at wrqu->data.pointer */
> + u8 go_devadd_str[17 + 12] = {};
>
> /* Commented by Albert 20121209 */
> /* The input data is the GO's interface address which the application wants to know its device address. */
> @@ -3223,12 +3221,12 @@ static int rtw_p2p_get_go_device_address(struct net_device *dev,
> spin_unlock_bh(&pmlmepriv->scanned_queue.lock);
>
> if (!blnMatch)
> - sprintf(go_devadd_str, "\n\ndev_add = NULL");
> + snprintf(go_devadd_str, sizeof(go_devadd_str), "\n\ndev_add = NULL");
> else
> - sprintf(go_devadd_str, "\n\ndev_add =%.2X:%.2X:%.2X:%.2X:%.2X:%.2X",
> + snprintf(go_devadd_str, sizeof(go_devadd_str), "\n\ndev_add =%.2X:%.2X:%.2X:%.2X:%.2X:%.2X",
> attr_content[0], attr_content[1], attr_content[2], attr_content[3], attr_content[4], attr_content[5]);
>
> - if (copy_to_user(wrqu->data.pointer, go_devadd_str, 10 + 17))
> + if (copy_to_user(wrqu->data.pointer, go_devadd_str, sizeof(go_devadd_str)))
> return -EFAULT;
> return ret;
> }
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-07 2:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-03 22:38 [patch 2/2] staging: r8188eu: overflow in rtw_p2p_get_go_device_address() Dan Carpenter
2014-02-07 2:51 ` Larry Finger [this message]
2014-02-07 10:46 ` walter harms
2014-02-07 11:21 ` Dan Carpenter
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