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* [Patch] Overrun in drivers/input/joystick/db9.c
@ 2006-06-27 22:16 Eric Sesterhenn
  2006-06-28  3:43 ` Dmitry Torokhov
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Eric Sesterhenn @ 2006-06-27 22:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel; +Cc: dmitry.torokhov

hi,

coverity spotted this overrun (#id 483), we assign 
db9_mode = &db9_modes[mode]; some lines before, so
if we use mode as index again we might get past the
array once mode is greater than DB9_MAX_PAD/2,
besides this this patch changes the code to what
the author possibly intended it to do.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de>

--- linux-2.6.17-git11/drivers/input/joystick/db9.c.orig	2006-06-28 00:06:47.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.17-git11/drivers/input/joystick/db9.c	2006-06-28 00:08:32.000000000 +0200
@@ -584,7 +584,7 @@ static struct db9 __init *db9_probe(int 
 		goto err_out;
 	}
 
-	if (db9_mode[mode].bidirectional && !(pp->modes & PARPORT_MODE_TRISTATE)) {
+	if (db9_mode->bidirectional && !(pp->modes & PARPORT_MODE_TRISTATE)) {
 		printk(KERN_ERR "db9.c: specified parport is not bidirectional\n");
 		err = -EINVAL;
 		goto err_put_pp;



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* Re: [Patch] Overrun in drivers/input/joystick/db9.c
  2006-06-27 22:16 [Patch] Overrun in drivers/input/joystick/db9.c Eric Sesterhenn
@ 2006-06-28  3:43 ` Dmitry Torokhov
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Dmitry Torokhov @ 2006-06-28  3:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Eric Sesterhenn; +Cc: linux-kernel, dmitry.torokhov

On Tuesday 27 June 2006 18:16, Eric Sesterhenn wrote:
> hi,
> 
> coverity spotted this overrun (#id 483), we assign 
> db9_mode = &db9_modes[mode]; some lines before, so
> if we use mode as index again we might get past the
> array once mode is greater than DB9_MAX_PAD/2,
> besides this this patch changes the code to what
> the author possibly intended it to do.
>

Applied, thank you.

-- 
Dmitry

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