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From: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
To: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] fat: Read buffer overflow
Date: Sat, 08 Aug 2009 00:48:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A7CAF28.8020908@gmail.com> (raw)

If len is less or equal to 0, this results in a read of s[-1].

Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
---
diff --git a/fs/fat/namei_vfat.c b/fs/fat/namei_vfat.c
index 6f27853..114ff6d 100644
--- a/fs/fat/namei_vfat.c
+++ b/fs/fat/namei_vfat.c
@@ -202,6 +202,9 @@ static inline int vfat_is_used_badchars(const wchar_t *s, int len)
 {
 	int i;
 
+	if (len <= 0)
+		return -EINVAL;
+
 	for (i = 0; i < len; i++)
 		if (vfat_bad_char(s[i]))
 			return -EINVAL;

             reply	other threads:[~2009-08-07 22:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-07 22:48 Roel Kluin [this message]
2009-08-07 23:06 ` [PATCH] fat: Read buffer overflow OGAWA Hirofumi
2009-08-08  6:56   ` Pekka Enberg
2009-08-08 10:10     ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2009-08-08 10:12       ` Pekka Enberg
2009-08-08 10:18       ` OGAWA Hirofumi
     [not found] <d6Gqb-2HX-3@gated-at.bofh.it>
2009-08-08 13:01 ` Alexander Koeppe

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