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panasonic-laptop: avoid overflow in acpi_pcc_hotkey_add()

num_sifr could go negative since acpi_pcc_get_sqty() returns -EINVAL
on error.  Then it could bypass the sanity check (num_sifr > 255).
The subsequent call to kzalloc() would allocate a small buffer, leading
to a memory corruption.

Signed-off-by: Xi Wang <xi.wang@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Xi Wang 13 years ago
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      drivers/platform/x86/panasonic-laptop.c

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drivers/platform/x86/panasonic-laptop.c

@@ -562,8 +562,8 @@ static int acpi_pcc_hotkey_add(struct acpi_device *device)
 
 	num_sifr = acpi_pcc_get_sqty(device);
 
-	if (num_sifr > 255) {
-		ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_ERROR, "num_sifr too large"));
+	if (num_sifr < 0 || num_sifr > 255) {
+		ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_ERROR, "num_sifr out of range"));
 		return -ENODEV;
 	}