[patch] paride: underflow bug in pg_write()

From: Dan Carpenter
Date: Wed Jul 31 2013 - 05:09:00 EST


The test here can underflow so we pass bogus lengths to the hardware.
It's a static checker fix and I don't know the impact.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>

diff --git a/drivers/block/paride/pg.c b/drivers/block/paride/pg.c
index 4a27b1d..2ce3dfd 100644
--- a/drivers/block/paride/pg.c
+++ b/drivers/block/paride/pg.c
@@ -581,7 +581,7 @@ static ssize_t pg_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *buf, size_t count,

if (hdr.magic != PG_MAGIC)
return -EINVAL;
- if (hdr.dlen > PG_MAX_DATA)
+ if (hdr.dlen < 0 || hdr.dlen > PG_MAX_DATA)
return -EINVAL;
if ((count - hs) > PG_MAX_DATA)
return -EINVAL;
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