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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)
committerPaul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Sun, 26 Jun 2011 16:46:50 +0000 (12:46 -0400)
commitfcf9c166d91fa84551522944763304fb939661ce
tree0103339713dd39e349e909062c176588ea5f08d8
parent7eebcd4792c5a341559aed327b6afecbb1c46402
ldm: corrupted partition table can cause kernel oops

commit 294f6cf48666825d23c9372ef37631232746e40d upstream.

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>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
fs/partitions/ldm.c