[ 21/56] batman-adv: bat_socket_read missing checks

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-04-02T23:01:07Z

From: Paul Kot <pawlkt@gmail.com>

commit c00b6856fc642b234895cfabd15b289e76726430 upstream.

Writing a icmp_packet_rr and then reading icmp_packet can lead to kernel
memory corruption, if __user *buf is just below TASK_SIZE.

Signed-off-by: Paul Kot <pawlkt@gmail.com>
[sven@narfation.org: made it checkpatch clean]
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
net/batman-adv/icmp_socket.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/net/batman-adv/icmp_socket.c
+++ b/net/batman-adv/icmp_socket.c
@@ -136,8 +136,8 @@ static ssize_t bat_socket_read(struct fi

spin_unlock_bh(&socket_client->lock);

- error = __copy_to_user(buf, &socket_packet->icmp_packet,
- socket_packet->icmp_len);
+ error = copy_to_user(buf, &socket_packet->icmp_packet,
+ socket_packet->icmp_len);

packet_len = socket_packet->icmp_len;
kfree(socket_packet);