Re: [patch] sata_sil24: memset() overflow

From: Jeff Garzik
Date: Thu Jun 10 2010 - 16:14:45 EST


On 06/09/2010 08:01 AM, Dan Carpenter wrote:
cb->atapi.cdb is an array of 16 u8 elements. The call too memset()
would set the first part of the sge array to zero as well. It's not
a packed struct.

This one has been around for five years. I found it with Smatch. I
think the reason no one has seen it before is because we normally call
sil24_fill_sg() and that overwrites sge with proper information?

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter<error27@xxxxxxxxx>
---
I don't have this hardware myself so I can't test it. Sorry. :(

diff --git a/drivers/ata/sata_sil24.c b/drivers/ata/sata_sil24.c
index e925051..9e459eb 100644
--- a/drivers/ata/sata_sil24.c
+++ b/drivers/ata/sata_sil24.c
@@ -865,7 +865,7 @@ static void sil24_qc_prep(struct ata_queued_cmd *qc)
} else {
prb =&cb->atapi.prb;
sge = cb->atapi.sge;
- memset(cb->atapi.cdb, 0, 32);
+ memset(cb->atapi.cdb, 0, sizeof(cb->atapi.cdb));
memcpy(cb->atapi.cdb, qc->cdb, qc->dev->cdb_len);

applied


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