[S390] sclp_async: potential buffer overflow
authorDan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Fri, 9 Apr 2010 11:42:59 +0000 (13:42 +0200)
committerMartin Schwidefsky <sky@mschwide.boeblingen.de.ibm.com>
Fri, 9 Apr 2010 11:43:02 +0000 (13:43 +0200)
"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 <error27@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
drivers/s390/char/sclp_async.c

index 2aecf7f..7ad30e7 100644 (file)
@@ -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)