From: Dan Carpenter Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 11:42:59 +0000 (+0200) Subject: [S390] sclp_async: potential buffer overflow X-Git-Tag: MMI-PSA29.97-13-9~24156^2~5 X-Git-Url: https://git.stricted.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=35ac734f72d846f250c0344913a91f954ea764c3;p=GitHub%2FMotorolaMobilityLLC%2Fkernel-slsi.git [S390] sclp_async: potential buffer overflow "len" hasn't been properly range checked so we shouldn't use it as an array offset. This can only be written to by root but it would still be annoying to accidentally write more than 3 characters and corrupt your memory. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky --- diff --git a/drivers/s390/char/sclp_async.c b/drivers/s390/char/sclp_async.c index 2aecf7f21361..7ad30e72f868 100644 --- a/drivers/s390/char/sclp_async.c +++ b/drivers/s390/char/sclp_async.c @@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ static int proc_handler_callhome(struct ctl_table *ctl, int write, rc = copy_from_user(buf, buffer, sizeof(buf)); if (rc != 0) return -EFAULT; - buf[len - 1] = '\0'; + buf[sizeof(buf) - 1] = '\0'; if (strict_strtoul(buf, 0, &val) != 0) return -EINVAL; if (val != 0 && val != 1)