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authorAlan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>2010-06-18 10:16:33 -0400
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2010-06-30 08:16:06 -0700
commit64d65872f96e2a754caa12ef48949c314384bd9f (patch)
tree1fbd174ef9b2df672a68f81c960599c39b238286 /drivers/usb/core
parent3b49d2315c119b9ae8a9a33b07d4eb7d194c01a7 (diff)
USB: fix oops in usb_sg_init()
This patch (as1401) fixes a bug in usb_sg_init() that can cause an invalid pointer dereference. An inner loop reuses some local variables in an unsafe manner, so new variables are introduced. Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Tested-by: Ajay Kumar Gupta <ajay.gupta@ti.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/usb/core')
-rw-r--r--drivers/usb/core/message.c7
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/usb/core/message.c b/drivers/usb/core/message.c
index a73e08fdab3..fd4c36ea5e4 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/core/message.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/core/message.c
@@ -416,8 +416,11 @@ int usb_sg_init(struct usb_sg_request *io, struct usb_device *dev,
/* A length of zero means transfer the whole sg list */
len = length;
if (len == 0) {
- for_each_sg(sg, sg, nents, i)
- len += sg->length;
+ struct scatterlist *sg2;
+ int j;
+
+ for_each_sg(sg, sg2, nents, j)
+ len += sg2->length;
}
} else {
/*