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From: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
To: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Patch] Uninitialized variable in drivers/net/wan/syncppp.c
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 18:45:13 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1157067913.2634.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1157066002.13592.3.camel@alice>

On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 01:13 +0200, Eric Sesterhenn wrote:

> --- linux-2.6.18-rc5/drivers/net/wan/syncppp.c.orig	2006-09-01 00:55:08.000000000 +0200
> +++ linux-2.6.18-rc5/drivers/net/wan/syncppp.c	2006-09-01 00:55:45.000000000 +0200
> @@ -505,14 +505,15 @@ static void sppp_lcp_input (struct sppp 
>  			skb->len, h);
>  		break;
>  	case LCP_CONF_REQ:
> -		if (len < 4) {
> +		if (len <= 4) {
>  			if (sp->pp_flags & PP_DEBUG)
>  				printk (KERN_DEBUG"%s: invalid lcp configure request packet length: %d bytes\n",
>  					dev->name, len);
>  			break;
>  		}
> -		if (len>4 && !sppp_lcp_conf_parse_options (sp, h, len, &rmagic))
> +		if (!sppp_lcp_conf_parse_options (sp, h, len, &rmagic))
>  			goto badreq;
> +
>  		if (rmagic == sp->lcp.magic) {
>  			/* Local and remote magics equal -- loopback? */
>  			if (sp->pp_loopcnt >= MAXALIVECNT*5) {

This is not correct.

>From RFC1661:
Valid LCP configuration requests can have zero options (len == 4).
If the magic number option is not included in the LCP CFG REQ,
then the magic number should be treated as zero.

The correct fix is to initialize rmagic to zero before
the if (len>4 && !sppp_lcp_conf_parse_options()) line.

--
Paul



  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-31 23:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-31 23:13 [Patch] Uninitialized variable in drivers/net/wan/syncppp.c Eric Sesterhenn
2006-08-31 23:45 ` Paul Fulghum [this message]
2006-09-01  0:26   ` Eric Sesterhenn
2006-09-01  1:01     ` Paul Fulghum

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