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From: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: vojtech@suse.cz, linux-input@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: drivers/input/touchscreen/gunze.c: gunze_process_packet: invalid array access
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 19:41:57 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200503231941.57991.dtor_core@ameritech.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050323012613.GY1948@stusta.de>

On Tuesday 22 March 2005 20:26, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> The Coverity checker found the following bug in the function 
> gunze_process_packet in drivers/input/touchscreen/gunze.c:
> 
> 
> <--  snip  -->
> 
> ...
> #define GUNZE_MAX_LENGTH        10
> ...
> struct gunze {
> ...
>         unsigned char data[GUNZE_MAX_LENGTH];
> ...
> };
> ...
> static void gunze_process_packet(struct gunze* gunze, struct pt_regs *regs)
> ...
>                 gunze->data[10] = 0;
> ...
> 
> <--  snip  -->
> 
> 
> The bug is obvious, but for a correct solution someone should know this 
> code better than I do.
> 

Ahh, it looks like it was just an attempt to null-terminate packet for
printk. The patch below should do the trick. 

-- 
Dmitry

===================================================================

Input: gunze - fix out-of-bound array access reported by Adrian Bunk.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>


 gunze.c |    3 +--
 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

Index: dtor/drivers/input/touchscreen/gunze.c
===================================================================
--- dtor.orig/drivers/input/touchscreen/gunze.c
+++ dtor/drivers/input/touchscreen/gunze.c
@@ -68,8 +68,7 @@ static void gunze_process_packet(struct 
 
 	if (gunze->idx != GUNZE_MAX_LENGTH || gunze->data[5] != ',' ||
 		(gunze->data[0] != 'T' && gunze->data[0] != 'R')) {
-		gunze->data[10] = 0;
-		printk(KERN_WARNING "gunze.c: bad packet: >%s<\n", gunze->data);
+		printk(KERN_WARNING "gunze.c: bad packet: >%.*s<\n", GUNZE_MAX_LENGTH, gunze->data);
 		return;
 	}
 

      reply	other threads:[~2005-03-24  0:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-23  1:26 drivers/input/touchscreen/gunze.c: gunze_process_packet: invalid array access Adrian Bunk
2005-03-24  0:41 ` Dmitry Torokhov [this message]

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