ldm: corrupted partition table can cause kernel oops
authorTimo Warns <Warns@pre-sense.de>
Fri, 25 Feb 2011 22:44:21 +0000 (14:44 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 25 Feb 2011 23:07:36 +0000 (15:07 -0800)
commit294f6cf48666825d23c9372ef37631232746e40d
tree2190540b4d02534d17d1c4ee11b1ce96dba16daa
parent2876592f231d436c295b67726313f6f3cfb6e243
ldm: corrupted partition table can cause kernel oops

The kernel automatically evaluates partition tables of storage devices.
The code for evaluating LDM partitions (in fs/partitions/ldm.c) contains
a bug that causes a kernel oops on certain corrupted LDM partitions.  A
kernel subsystem seems to crash, because, after the oops, the kernel no
longer recognizes newly connected storage devices.

The patch changes ldm_parse_vmdb() to Validate the value of vblk_size.

Signed-off-by: Timo Warns <warns@pre-sense.de>
Cc: Eugene Teo <eugeneteo@kernel.sg>
Acked-by: Richard Russon <ldm@flatcap.org>
Cc: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
fs/partitions/ldm.c