From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paul Mundt Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 06:25:58 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH] video: arcfb: fix buffer overflow Message-Id: <20101124062558.GF11705@linux-sh.org> List-Id: References: <1290361202-15065-1-git-send-email-segoon@openwall.com> In-Reply-To: <1290361202-15065-1-git-send-email-segoon@openwall.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Vasiliy Kulikov Cc: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, Jaya Kumar , linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 08:40:01PM +0300, Vasiliy Kulikov wrote: > (count + p) is not checked for integer overflow. If p < fbmemlength > and count = (size_t)(1 - p) (very big unsigned integer) then > count + p = 1 < fbmemlength and copy_to_user(base_addr+p, buf, count) > overflows base_addr. > > Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov Applied, thanks.