From: Xi Wang <xi.wang@gmail.com>
To: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: "devel@driverdev.osuosl.org" <devel@driverdev.osuosl.org>,
Mori Hess <fmhess@users.sourceforge.net>,
"security@kernel.org" <security@kernel.org>,
Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>,
Ian Abbott <ian.abbott@mev.co.uk>,
Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>, Franky Lin <frankyl@broadcom.com>,
Greg Dietsche <gregory.dietsche@cuw.edu>,
Mark Pearson <markpearson_de@yahoo.de>
Subject: [PATCH v3] comedi: integer overflow in do_insnlist_ioctl()
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2011 16:46:51 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4ED00CCB.80604@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111125072550.GK3195@mwanda>
There is a potential integer overflow in do_insnlist_ioctl() if
userspace passes in a large insnlist.n_insns. The call to kmalloc()
would allocate a small buffer, leading to a memory corruption.
The bug was reported by Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
and Haogang Chen <haogangchen@gmail.com>. The patch was suggested by
Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk> and Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>.
Signed-off-by: Xi Wang <xi.wang@gmail.com>
---
drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c
b/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c
index 21d8c1c..7f7d79e 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c
@@ -671,7 +671,7 @@ static int do_insnlist_ioctl(struct comedi_device *dev,
}
insns =
- kmalloc(sizeof(struct comedi_insn) * insnlist.n_insns, GFP_KERNEL);
+ kcalloc(insnlist.n_insns, sizeof(struct comedi_insn), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!insns) {
DPRINTK("kmalloc failed\n");
ret = -ENOMEM;
--
1.7.5.4
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-25 21:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-23 0:49 [PATCH] comedi: integer overflow in do_insnlist_ioctl() Xi Wang
2011-11-23 6:13 ` Dan Carpenter
2011-11-23 13:59 ` Xi Wang
2011-11-23 14:50 ` Dan Carpenter
2011-11-23 16:06 ` Ian Abbott
2011-11-23 16:53 ` [PATCH v2] " Xi Wang
2011-11-23 21:41 ` [PATCH] " Lars-Peter Clausen
2011-11-23 21:51 ` Dan Carpenter
2011-11-24 19:07 ` Xi Wang
2011-11-25 7:25 ` Dan Carpenter
2011-11-25 21:46 ` Xi Wang [this message]
2011-11-27 2:52 ` [PATCH v3] " Greg KH
2011-11-27 11:25 ` Dan Carpenter
2011-11-27 21:24 ` Greg KH
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