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authorDan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>2013-10-30 20:12:51 +0300
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2013-11-29 11:11:39 -0800
commitcdd9192be79055a0595092c2abea69399e4d951d (patch)
treeacb8a300d3e644cb4b2d6b450f5327d5b09ff717
parent82eb7924131196deccf9f09fd29d96960bc48200 (diff)
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libertas: potential oops in debugfs
commit a497e47d4aec37aaf8f13509f3ef3d1f6a717d88 upstream. If we do a zero size allocation then it will oops. Also we can't be sure the user passes us a NUL terminated string so I've added a terminator. This code can only be triggered by root. Reported-by: Nico Golde <nico@ngolde.de> Reported-by: Fabian Yamaguchi <fabs@goesec.de> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Acked-by: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/libertas/debugfs.c6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/debugfs.c b/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/debugfs.c
index 668dd27616a..cc6a0a586f0 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/debugfs.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/debugfs.c
@@ -913,7 +913,10 @@ static ssize_t lbs_debugfs_write(struct file *f, const char __user *buf,
char *p2;
struct debug_data *d = f->private_data;
- pdata = kmalloc(cnt, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (cnt == 0)
+ return 0;
+
+ pdata = kmalloc(cnt + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
if (pdata == NULL)
return 0;
@@ -922,6 +925,7 @@ static ssize_t lbs_debugfs_write(struct file *f, const char __user *buf,
kfree(pdata);
return 0;
}
+ pdata[cnt] = '\0';
p0 = pdata;
for (i = 0; i < num_of_items; i++) {