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From: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>, Ken Ashcraft <ken@coverity.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mc@cs.stanford.edu,
	dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [CHECKER] Probable security holes in 2.6.5
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 18:38:08 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040420183808.J21045@build.pdx.osdl.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040421013402.GI29954@dualathlon.random>; from andrea@suse.de on Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 03:34:02AM +0200

* Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de) wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 11:54:06AM -0700, Chris Wright wrote:
> > +	if (mc.idx >= dma->buf_count)
> > +		return -EINVAL;
> > +
> >  	i810_dma_dispatch_mc(dev, dma->buflist[mc.idx], mc.used,
> >  		mc.last_render );
> 
> this is wrong, idx is signed, so you've to check for negative values
> too. Credit for noticing this doesn't belong to me though.

Yes, you are right.  I thought I had specifically checked and found it
unsigned.  Thanks for catching that.

> Could you just in case review the other fixes too for other potential
> errors like this? thanks.

Yes, I'll do a double check.

thanks,
-chris
-- 
Linux Security Modules     http://lsm.immunix.org     http://lsm.bkbits.net

  reply	other threads:[~2004-04-21  1:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-16 17:01 [CHECKER] Probable security holes in 2.6.5 Ken Ashcraft
2004-04-16 18:20 ` Chris Wright
2004-04-16 19:20   ` Jeff Garzik
2004-04-16 22:12     ` Chris Wright
2004-04-19 16:46   ` Jeff Garzik
2004-04-16 18:32 ` Chris Wright
2004-04-16 18:54 ` Chris Wright
2004-04-21  1:34   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-21  1:38     ` Chris Wright [this message]
2004-04-16 19:19 ` Chris Wright
2004-04-16 19:27 ` Chris Wright
2004-04-17  6:15   ` Rusty Russell
2004-04-16 20:02 ` Chris Wright
2004-04-16 20:23 ` Chris Wright
2004-04-17  0:16 ` Chris Wright
2004-04-17  1:00 ` Chris Wright
2004-04-19 16:27   ` Jeff Garzik
2004-04-19 19:09 ` Chris Wright
2004-04-19 20:38 ` Chris Wright

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