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* [patch] message/i2o: add sanity check
@ 2010-07-23 11:47 Dan Carpenter
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From: Dan Carpenter @ 2010-07-23 11:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel, Markus.Lidel; +Cc: kernel-janitors

We use "reply_size" to determine the size of the "reply" buffer.  These
days the "reply" buffer is just some context information, an error code,
and a bunch of zeroes.  We stopped using it for useful information four
years ago in dcceafe25a5f47 "[PATCH] I2O: Bugfixes"

This patch ensures that "reply" is large enough to hold the context
information.   In the current code if "reply_size" is zero that would
cause memory corruption when we save the error code:
	reply[4] = ((u32) rcode) << 24;

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>

diff --git a/drivers/message/i2o/i2o_config.c b/drivers/message/i2o/i2o_config.c
index c4b117f..8b1d55e 100644
--- a/drivers/message/i2o/i2o_config.c
+++ b/drivers/message/i2o/i2o_config.c
@@ -817,6 +817,11 @@ static int i2o_cfg_passthru(unsigned long arg)
 	reply_size >>= 16;
 	reply_size <<= 2;
 
+	if (reply_size < 5 * sizeof(u32)) {
+		rcode = -EINVAL;
+		goto out;
+	}
+
 	reply = kzalloc(reply_size, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!reply) {
 		printk(KERN_WARNING "%s: Could not allocate reply buffer\n",

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