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authorPaul Kot <pawlkt@gmail.com>2011-12-10 15:28:34 +0100
committerMarek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>2011-12-12 19:11:06 +0800
commitc00b6856fc642b234895cfabd15b289e76726430 (patch)
tree20ef4b559bd92bc45fe226b59c2e5111a8f18a9e /net/batman-adv
parent69497c17c6ffc636e463d528c2f4c87e4d894964 (diff)
downloadlinux-c00b6856fc642b234895cfabd15b289e76726430.tar.bz2
batman-adv: bat_socket_read missing checks
Writing a icmp_packet_rr and then reading icmp_packet can lead to kernel memory corruption, if __user *buf is just below TASK_SIZE. Signed-off-by: Paul Kot <pawlkt@gmail.com> [sven@narfation.org: made it checkpatch clean] Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/batman-adv')
-rw-r--r--net/batman-adv/icmp_socket.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/net/batman-adv/icmp_socket.c b/net/batman-adv/icmp_socket.c
index defd6929ceae..88ab26f5f726 100644
--- a/net/batman-adv/icmp_socket.c
+++ b/net/batman-adv/icmp_socket.c
@@ -136,8 +136,8 @@ static ssize_t bat_socket_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf,
spin_unlock_bh(&socket_client->lock);
- error = __copy_to_user(buf, &socket_packet->icmp_packet,
- socket_packet->icmp_len);
+ error = copy_to_user(buf, &socket_packet->icmp_packet,
+ socket_packet->icmp_len);
packet_len = socket_packet->icmp_len;
kfree(socket_packet);