Re: [ 88.628451] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at f8dbf000 "isight_firmware"

[Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>]

Argh. My firmware image contained the 0x8001 token that indicates end of 
firmware - the ones generated by Etienne's tool don't, so the driver 
reads straight off the end of the buffer. Can you try this patch? It 
also incorporates the cleanups Andrew suggested, and should be resistant 
to malformed data.

diff --git a/drivers/usb/misc/isight_firmware.c b/drivers/usb/misc/isight_firmware.c
index 390e048..cc5943c 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/misc/isight_firmware.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/misc/isight_firmware.c
@@ -39,9 +39,9 @@ static int isight_firmware_load(struct usb_interface *intf,
 	struct usb_device *dev = interface_to_usbdev(intf);
 	int llen, len, req, ret = 0;
 	const struct firmware *firmware;
-	unsigned char *buf;
+	unsigned char *buf = kmalloc(50, GFP_KERNEL);
 	unsigned char data[4];
-	char *ptr;
+	u8 *ptr;
 
 	if (request_firmware(&firmware, "isight.fw", &dev->dev) != 0) {
 		printk(KERN_ERR "Unable to load isight firmware\n");
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ static int isight_firmware_load(struct usb_interface *intf,
 		goto out;
 	}
 
-	while (1) {
+	while (ptr+4 <= firmware->data+firmware->size) {
 		memcpy(data, ptr, 4);
 		len = (data[0] << 8 | data[1]);
 		req = (data[2] << 8 | data[3]);
@@ -71,10 +71,14 @@ static int isight_firmware_load(struct usb_interface *intf,
 			continue;
 
 		for (; len > 0; req += 50) {
-			llen = len > 50 ? 50 : len;
+			llen = min (len, 50);		  
 			len -= llen;
-
-			buf = kmalloc(llen, GFP_KERNEL);
+			if (ptr+llen > firmware->data+firmware->size) {
+				printk (KERN_ERR 
+					"Malformed isight firmware");
+				ret = -ENODEV;
+				goto out;
+			}
 			memcpy(buf, ptr, llen);
 
 			ptr += llen;
@@ -89,16 +93,18 @@ static int isight_firmware_load(struct usb_interface *intf,
 				goto out;
 			}
 
-			kfree(buf);
 		}
 	}
+
 	if (usb_control_msg
 	    (dev, usb_sndctrlpipe(dev, 0), 0xa0, 0x40, 0xe600, 0, "\0", 1,
 	     300) != 1) {
 		printk(KERN_ERR "isight firmware loading completion failed\n");
 		ret = -ENODEV;
 	}
+
 out:
+	kfree(buf);
 	release_firmware(firmware);
 	return ret;
 }

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org