[PATCH] Drivers: misc: fix out-of-bounds access in function param_set_kgdbts_var

From: Young Xiao
Date: Fri Apr 12 2019 - 03:44:09 EST


From: Young Xiao <YangX92@xxxxxxxxxxx>

There is an out-of-bounds access to "config[len - 1]" array when the
variable "len" is zero.

See commit dada6a43b040 ("kgdboc: fix KASAN global-out-of-bounds bug
in param_set_kgdboc_var()") for details.

Signed-off-by: Young Xiao <YangX92@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/misc/kgdbts.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/misc/kgdbts.c b/drivers/misc/kgdbts.c
index de20bda..8b01257 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/kgdbts.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/kgdbts.c
@@ -1135,7 +1135,7 @@ static void kgdbts_put_char(u8 chr)
static int param_set_kgdbts_var(const char *kmessage,
const struct kernel_param *kp)
{
- int len = strlen(kmessage);
+ size_t len = strlen(kmessage);

if (len >= MAX_CONFIG_LEN) {
printk(KERN_ERR "kgdbts: config string too long\n");
@@ -1155,7 +1155,7 @@ static int param_set_kgdbts_var(const char *kmessage,

strcpy(config, kmessage);
/* Chop out \n char as a result of echo */
- if (config[len - 1] == '\n')
+ if (len && config[len - 1] == '\n')
config[len - 1] = '\0';

/* Go and configure with the new params. */
--
1.9.1