From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 19:45:42 +0300 From: Dan Carpenter Subject: [patch v2] s390: potential buffer overflow Message-ID: <20100330164542.GN5069@bicker> References: <20100330094342.GJ5069@bicker> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Archive: List-Post: To: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Martin Schwidefsky , Heiko Carstens , linux390@de.ibm.com, Hans-Joachim Picht , Sebastian Ott , linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org List-ID: "len" hasn't been properly range checked so we shouldn't use it as an array offset. This can only be written to by root but it would still be annoying to accidentally write more than 3 characters and corrupt your memory. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter --- v2. Removed a superfluous chunk from my first patch. I didn't understand how ->maxlen worked. diff --git a/drivers/s390/char/sclp_async.c b/drivers/s390/char/sclp_async.c index f449c69..38a9f55 100644 --- a/drivers/s390/char/sclp_async.c +++ b/drivers/s390/char/sclp_async.c @@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ static int proc_handler_callhome(struct ctl_table *ctl, int write, rc = copy_from_user(buf, buffer, sizeof(buf)); if (rc != 0) return -EFAULT; - buf[len - 1] = '\0'; + buf[sizeof(buf) - 1] = '\0'; if (strict_strtoul(buf, 0, &val) != 0) return -EINVAL; if (val != 0 && val != 1)