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Staging: bcm: Fix an invalid dereference to a kmalloc in IOCTL_BCM_BULK_WRM

Variable IoBuffer.InputLength is chosen from userspace,
and can therefore be less than the intended size. In this
case,the memory from the kmalloc call is eventually cast
to a PBULKWRM_BUFFER. If the IoBuffer.InputLength does not
meet the minimum size of PBULKWRM_BUFFER, then we will get
a kernel Oops. To resolve this issue, this patch verifies
IoBuffer.InputLength meets the minimum size before invoking
the kmalloc call.

Signed-off-by: Kevin McKinney <klmckinney1@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Kevin McKinney 13 years ago
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1 changed files with 3 additions and 1 deletions
  1. 3 1
      drivers/staging/bcm/Bcmchar.c

+ 3 - 1
drivers/staging/bcm/Bcmchar.c

@@ -1137,7 +1137,9 @@ cntrlEnd:
 		if (copy_from_user(&IoBuffer, argp, sizeof(IOCTL_BUFFER)))
 			return -EFAULT;
 
-		/* FIXME: restrict length */
+		if (IoBuffer.InputLength < sizeof(ULONG) * 2)
+			return -EINVAL;
+
 		pvBuffer = kmalloc(IoBuffer.InputLength, GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (!pvBuffer)
 			return -ENOMEM;