[PATCH 3/9] Add bound checks in wext for copy_from_user

Arjan van de Ven
2009-09-26T18:54:35Z

Subject: [PATCH 3/9] Add bound checks in wext for copy_from_user
CC: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org

The wireless extensions have a copy_from_user to a local stack
array "essid", but both me and gcc have failed to find where
the bounds for this copy are located in the code.

This patch adds some basic sanity checks for the copy length
to make sure that we don't overflow the stack buffer.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>

diff --git a/net/wireless/wext.c b/net/wireless/wext.c
index 5b4a0ce..34beae6 100644
--- a/net/wireless/wext.c
+++ b/net/wireless/wext.c
@@ -773,10 +773,13 @@ static int ioctl_standard_iw_point(struct iw_point *iwp, unsigned int cmd,
essid_compat = 1;
else if (IW_IS_SET(cmd) && (iwp->length != 0)) {
char essid[IW_ESSID_MAX_SIZE + 1];
+ unsigned int len;
+ len = iwp->length * descr->token_size;

- err = copy_from_user(essid, iwp->pointer,
- iwp->length *
- descr->token_size);
+ if (len > IW_ESSID_MAX_SIZE)
+ return -EFAULT;
+
+ err = copy_from_user(essid, iwp->pointer, len);
if (err)