Re: [PATCH] Input: synaptics-rmi4 - Fix an unchecked out of memory error path

From: Dmitry Torokhov
Date: Fri Apr 06 2018 - 18:38:08 EST


On Mon, Apr 02, 2018 at 05:52:52PM -0700, Andrew Duggan wrote:
>
> On 04/02/2018 07:03 AM, Christophe JAILLET wrote:
> > When extending the rmi_spi buffers, we must check that no out of memory
> > error occurs, otherwise we may access data above the currently allocated
> > memory.
> >
> > Propagate the error code returned by 'rmi_spi_manage_pools()' instead.
> Yep, that definitely looks like an oversight on my part. Thanks for the fix.
>
> Andrew
>
> > Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Reviewed-by: Andrew Duggan <aduggan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Applied, thank you.

>
> > ---
> > drivers/input/rmi4/rmi_spi.c | 7 +++++--
> > 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/input/rmi4/rmi_spi.c b/drivers/input/rmi4/rmi_spi.c
> > index 76edbf2c1bce..082defc329a8 100644
> > --- a/drivers/input/rmi4/rmi_spi.c
> > +++ b/drivers/input/rmi4/rmi_spi.c
> > @@ -147,8 +147,11 @@ static int rmi_spi_xfer(struct rmi_spi_xport *rmi_spi,
> > if (len > RMI_SPI_XFER_SIZE_LIMIT)
> > return -EINVAL;
> > - if (rmi_spi->xfer_buf_size < len)
> > - rmi_spi_manage_pools(rmi_spi, len);
> > + if (rmi_spi->xfer_buf_size < len) {
> > + ret = rmi_spi_manage_pools(rmi_spi, len);
> > + if (ret < 0)
> > + return ret;
> > + }
> > if (addr == 0)
> > /*
>

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Dmitry