[PATCH] libertas: Read outside array bounds

Dan Williams dcbw at redhat.com
Mon Jul 27 12:59:23 EDT 2009


On Sat, 2009-07-25 at 21:58 +0200, Roel Kluin wrote:
> reads bss->rates[j] before checking bounds of index, and should use
> ARRAY_SIZE to determine the size of the array.

Please re-post to linux-wireless at vger since that's where it will
actually get acked and picked up by linville.

Thanks,
Dan

> Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin at gmail.com>
> ---
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/scan.c b/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/scan.c
> index 601b542..6c95af3 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/scan.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/scan.c
> @@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
>    *  for sending scan commands to the firmware.
>    */
>  #include <linux/types.h>
> +#include <linux/kernel.h>
>  #include <linux/etherdevice.h>
>  #include <linux/if_arp.h>
>  #include <asm/unaligned.h>
> @@ -876,7 +877,7 @@ static inline char *lbs_translate_scan(struct lbs_private *priv,
>  	iwe.u.bitrate.disabled = 0;
>  	iwe.u.bitrate.value = 0;
>  
> -	for (j = 0; bss->rates[j] && (j < sizeof(bss->rates)); j++) {
> +	for (j = 0; j < ARRAY_SIZE(bss->rates) && bss->rates[j]; j++) {
>  		/* Bit rate given in 500 kb/s units */
>  		iwe.u.bitrate.value = bss->rates[j] * 500000;
>  		current_val = iwe_stream_add_value(info, start, current_val,
> 
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