[patch] message/i2o: add sanity check

From: Dan Carpenter
Date: Fri Jul 23 2010 - 07:47:49 EST


We use "reply_size" to determine the size of the "reply" buffer. These
days the "reply" buffer is just some context information, an error code,
and a bunch of zeroes. We stopped using it for useful information four
years ago in dcceafe25a5f47 "[PATCH] I2O: Bugfixes"

This patch ensures that "reply" is large enough to hold the context
information. In the current code if "reply_size" is zero that would
cause memory corruption when we save the error code:
reply[4] = ((u32) rcode) << 24;

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@xxxxxxxxx>

diff --git a/drivers/message/i2o/i2o_config.c b/drivers/message/i2o/i2o_config.c
index c4b117f..8b1d55e 100644
--- a/drivers/message/i2o/i2o_config.c
+++ b/drivers/message/i2o/i2o_config.c
@@ -817,6 +817,11 @@ static int i2o_cfg_passthru(unsigned long arg)
reply_size >>= 16;
reply_size <<= 2;

+ if (reply_size < 5 * sizeof(u32)) {
+ rcode = -EINVAL;
+ goto out;
+ }
+
reply = kzalloc(reply_size, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!reply) {
printk(KERN_WARNING "%s: Could not allocate reply buffer\n",
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