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authorDan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>2013-10-30 20:12:51 +0300
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2013-11-11 14:38:58 -0500
commita497e47d4aec37aaf8f13509f3ef3d1f6a717d88 (patch)
treec670dfa4fbf4b96bb7b5d1041f82a899447fe03b /drivers/net/wireless
parent450991fd2f9d362562c69b2e70832b2ecb7624cb (diff)
downloadlinux-a497e47d4aec37aaf8f13509f3ef3d1f6a717d88.tar.bz2
libertas: potential oops in debugfs
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/wireless')
-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 668dd27616a0..cc6a0a586f0b 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++) {