From: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2010 20:46:41 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: PARISC: led.c - fix potential stack overflow in led_proc_write()
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.36-rc1~592
X-Git-Url: https://openfabrics.org/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=4b4fd27c0b5ec638a1f06ced9226fd95229dbbf0;p=~shefty%2Frdma-dev.git

PARISC: led.c - fix potential stack overflow in led_proc_write()

avoid potential stack overflow by correctly checking count parameter

Reported-by: Ilja <ilja@netric.org>
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: James E.J. Bottomley <jejb@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---

diff --git a/drivers/parisc/led.c b/drivers/parisc/led.c
index 188bc8496a2..d02be78a413 100644
--- a/drivers/parisc/led.c
+++ b/drivers/parisc/led.c
@@ -176,16 +176,18 @@ static ssize_t led_proc_write(struct file *file, const char *buf,
 	size_t count, loff_t *pos)
 {
 	void *data = PDE(file->f_path.dentry->d_inode)->data;
-	char *cur, lbuf[count + 1];
+	char *cur, lbuf[32];
 	int d;
 
 	if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
 		return -EACCES;
 
-	memset(lbuf, 0, count + 1);
+	if (count >= sizeof(lbuf))
+		count = sizeof(lbuf)-1;
 
 	if (copy_from_user(lbuf, buf, count))
 		return -EFAULT;
+	lbuf[count] = 0;
 
 	cur = lbuf;