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authorXi Wang <[email protected]>2011-11-25 16:46:51 -0500
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>2011-11-28 04:38:45 +0900
commitdfd8ee92a9192d78aa38cf8699df3630a7c88c85 (patch)
tree6d567e20e8bc4d185e402636d3a5b2ae84355114
parent06b446c8af5db5a98b2eaa30b513c79089ed254b (diff)
Staging: comedi: fix integer overflow in do_insnlist_ioctl()
There is a potential integer overflow in do_insnlist_ioctl() if userspace passes in a large insnlist.n_insns. The call to kmalloc() would allocate a small buffer, leading to a memory corruption. The bug was reported by Dan Carpenter <[email protected]> and Haogang Chen <[email protected]>. The patch was suggested by Ian Abbott <[email protected]> and Lars-Peter Clausen <[email protected]>. Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <[email protected]> Reported-by: Haogang Chen <[email protected]>. Cc: Ian Abbott <[email protected]> Cc: Lars-Peter Clausen <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Xi Wang <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
-rw-r--r--drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c b/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c
index ebdcecda3583..5e78c77d5a08 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c
@@ -671,7 +671,7 @@ static int do_insnlist_ioctl(struct comedi_device *dev,
}
insns =
- kmalloc(sizeof(struct comedi_insn) * insnlist.n_insns, GFP_KERNEL);
+ kcalloc(insnlist.n_insns, sizeof(struct comedi_insn), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!insns) {
DPRINTK("kmalloc failed\n");
ret = -ENOMEM;