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| author | Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> | 2010-08-02 22:46:41 +0200 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2010-08-03 09:11:42 -0700 |
| commit | 4b4fd27c0b5ec638a1f06ced9226fd95229dbbf0 (patch) | |
| tree | 8fbdbf091b7378e03b9bfb80a12f791d942ba86c | |
| parent | 9fe6206f400646a2322096b56c59891d530e8d51 (diff) | |
PARISC: led.c - fix potential stack overflow in led_proc_write()
avoid potential stack overflow by correctly checking count parameter
Reported-by: Ilja <ilja@netric.org>
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: James E.J. Bottomley <jejb@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/parisc/led.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/parisc/led.c b/drivers/parisc/led.c index 188bc8496a2..d02be78a413 100644 --- a/drivers/parisc/led.c +++ b/drivers/parisc/led.c @@ -176,16 +176,18 @@ static ssize_t led_proc_write(struct file *file, const char *buf, size_t count, loff_t *pos) { void *data = PDE(file->f_path.dentry->d_inode)->data; - char *cur, lbuf[count + 1]; + char *cur, lbuf[32]; int d; if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) return -EACCES; - memset(lbuf, 0, count + 1); + if (count >= sizeof(lbuf)) + count = sizeof(lbuf)-1; if (copy_from_user(lbuf, buf, count)) return -EFAULT; + lbuf[count] = 0; cur = lbuf; |