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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, Serge Semin <fancer.lancer@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] eeprom: idt_89hpesx: uninitialized data in idt_dbgfs_csr_write()
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2022 13:40:24 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220706104024.GD2338@kadam> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YsUyqwe9Caxb6k4g@kili>

On Wed, Jul 06, 2022 at 09:58:51AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> The simple_write_to_buffer() here is used to copy a string from the
> user.  However the function call will succeed if it manages to read
> just one byte anywhere within the buffer while we need the whole string
> to be initialized to avoid using uninitialized data.
> 
> Fixes: cfad6425382e ("eeprom: Add IDT 89HPESx EEPROM/CSR driver")
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
> ---

NAK.  The strndup_user() function is too strict.  I will resend this
using memdup_user() instead.

regards,
dan carpenter


  reply	other threads:[~2022-07-06 10:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-07-06  6:58 [PATCH] eeprom: idt_89hpesx: uninitialized data in idt_dbgfs_csr_write() Dan Carpenter
2022-07-06 10:40 ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
2022-07-07 18:06   ` Serge Semin

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