[PATCH 1/2] i2o: fix overflow of copy_to_user()

From: Kulikov Vasiliy
Date: Thu Jul 15 2010 - 02:42:54 EST


If (len > reslen) we must not call copy_to_user() since kernel buffer is
smaller than we want to copy. Similar code in this file is correct, so
this bug was a typo.

Signed-off-by: Kulikov Vasiliy <segooon@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/message/i2o/i2o_config.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/message/i2o/i2o_config.c b/drivers/message/i2o/i2o_config.c
index c4b117f..4dd39a0 100644
--- a/drivers/message/i2o/i2o_config.c
+++ b/drivers/message/i2o/i2o_config.c
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ static int i2o_cfg_gethrt(unsigned long arg)
put_user(len, kcmd.reslen);
if (len > reslen)
ret = -ENOBUFS;
- if (copy_to_user(kcmd.resbuf, (void *)hrt, len))
+ else if (copy_to_user(kcmd.resbuf, (void *)hrt, len))
ret = -EFAULT;

return ret;
--
1.7.0.4

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