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firewire: cdev: check write quadlet request length to avoid buffer overflow
authorClemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Wed, 7 Jul 2010 12:37:30 +0000 (14:37 +0200)
committerStefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Tue, 13 Jul 2010 07:47:47 +0000 (09:47 +0200)
commita8e93f3dccc066cd6dd1e9db1e35942914fc57d1
tree9165f872029ef76e99fd40c0afb6d8c896f8cabc
parent250b2b6dd421c9f8844a867d2ac06e0661e0ad93
firewire: cdev: check write quadlet request length to avoid buffer overflow

Check that the data length of a write quadlet request actually is large
enough for a quadlet.  Otherwise, fw_fill_request could access the four
bytes after the end of the outbound_transaction_event structure.

Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Modification of Clemens' change:  Consolidate the check into
init_request() which is used by the affected ioctl_send_request() and
ioctl_send_broadcast_request() and the unaffected
ioctl_send_stream_packet(), to save a few lines of code.

Note, since struct outbound_transaction_event *e is slab-allocated, such
an out-of-bounds access won't hit unallocated memory but may result in a
(virtually impossible to exploit) information disclosure.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
drivers/firewire/core-cdev.c