[PATCH 6/6] isdn/gigaset: fix zero size border case in debug dump

From: Tilman Schmidt
Date: Mon Jan 21 2013 - 17:26:25 EST


If subtracting 12 from l leaves zero we'd do a zero size allocation,
leading to an oops later when we try to set the NUL terminator.

Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@xxxxxxx>
CC: stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/isdn/gigaset/capi.c | 2 ++
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/isdn/gigaset/capi.c b/drivers/isdn/gigaset/capi.c
index 68452b7..03a0a01 100644
--- a/drivers/isdn/gigaset/capi.c
+++ b/drivers/isdn/gigaset/capi.c
@@ -248,6 +248,8 @@ static inline void dump_rawmsg(enum debuglevel level, const char *tag,
CAPIMSG_APPID(data), CAPIMSG_MSGID(data), l,
CAPIMSG_CONTROL(data));
l -= 12;
+ if (l <= 0)
+ return;
dbgline = kmalloc(3 * l, GFP_ATOMIC);
if (!dbgline)
return;
--
1.7.3.4

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