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author | Paul Kot <pawlkt@gmail.com> | 2011-12-10 09:28:34 -0500 |
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committer | Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de> | 2011-12-12 06:11:06 -0500 |
commit | c00b6856fc642b234895cfabd15b289e76726430 (patch) | |
tree | 20ef4b559bd92bc45fe226b59c2e5111a8f18a9e /net/batman-adv | |
parent | 69497c17c6ffc636e463d528c2f4c87e4d894964 (diff) |
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.c | 4 |
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, | |||
136 | 136 | ||
137 | spin_unlock_bh(&socket_client->lock); | 137 | spin_unlock_bh(&socket_client->lock); |
138 | 138 | ||
139 | error = __copy_to_user(buf, &socket_packet->icmp_packet, | 139 | error = copy_to_user(buf, &socket_packet->icmp_packet, |
140 | socket_packet->icmp_len); | 140 | socket_packet->icmp_len); |
141 | 141 | ||
142 | packet_len = socket_packet->icmp_len; | 142 | packet_len = socket_packet->icmp_len; |
143 | kfree(socket_packet); | 143 | kfree(socket_packet); |