wrong memory access in i2o_block_device_lock()
authorVasily Averin <vvs@sw.ru>
Tue, 17 Jul 2007 11:04:25 +0000 (04:04 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 17 Jul 2007 17:23:06 +0000 (10:23 -0700)
This patch fixes access to memory that has not been allocated:
i2o_msg_get_wait() can returns errors different from I2O_QUEUE_EMPTY.  But the
result is checked only against this code.  If it is not I2O_QUEUE_EMPTY then
we dereference the error code as the pointer later.

Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin <vvs@sw.ru>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Markus Lidel <Markus.Lidel@shadowconnect.com>
Acked-by: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
drivers/message/i2o/i2o_block.c

index b17c4b2bc9ef7f6e784c56f8ee571f67c8e4e533..64a52bd7544a8a4cf3adbdfafc34b9039460404a 100644 (file)
@@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ static int i2o_block_device_lock(struct i2o_device *dev, u32 media_id)
        struct i2o_message *msg;
 
        msg = i2o_msg_get_wait(dev->iop, I2O_TIMEOUT_MESSAGE_GET);
-       if (IS_ERR(msg) == I2O_QUEUE_EMPTY)
+       if (IS_ERR(msg))
                return PTR_ERR(msg);
 
        msg->u.head[0] = cpu_to_le32(FIVE_WORD_MSG_SIZE | SGL_OFFSET_0);