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firewire: ohci: fix buffer overflow in AR split packet handling
authorClemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Mon, 25 Oct 2010 09:41:53 +0000 (11:41 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Thu, 9 Dec 2010 21:26:49 +0000 (13:26 -0800)
commit9cfed69ea337d0b811044aa3222baa7306dc78a9
tree866511b66e08b7910ed2657e210b93d7f3d99f21
parent7098a32a0303c42e8b2db72fd8cf58c624a96a7e
firewire: ohci: fix buffer overflow in AR split packet handling

commit 85f7ffd5d2b320f73912b15fe8cef34bae297daf upstream.

When the controller had to split a received asynchronous packet into two
buffers, the driver tries to reassemble it by copying both parts into
the first page.  However, if size + rest > PAGE_SIZE, i.e., if the yet
unhandled packets before the split packet, the split packet itself, and
any received packets after the split packet are together larger than one
page, then the memory after the first page would get overwritten.

To fix this, do not try to copy the data of all unhandled packets at
once, but copy the possibly needed data every time when handling
a packet.

This gets rid of most of the infamous crashes and data corruptions when
using firewire-net.

Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Tested-by: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
drivers/firewire/ohci.c