[PATCH 18/18] pcmcia: avoid buffer overflow in pcmcia_setup_isa_irq

Dominik Brodowski linux at dominikbrodowski.net
Thu Aug 5 18:06:54 EDT 2010


NR_IRQS may be as low as 16, causing a (harmless?) buffer overflow in
pcmcia_setup_isa_irq():

static u8 pcmcia_used_irq[NR_IRQS];

...

		if ((try < 32) && pcmcia_used_irq[irq])
			continue;

This is read-only, so if this address would be non-zero, it would just
mean we would not attempt an IRQ >= NR_IRQS -- which would fail anyway!
And as request_irq() fails for an irq >= NR_IRQS, the setting code path:

			pcmcia_used_irq[irq]++;

is never reached as well.

Reported-by: Christoph Fritz <chf.fritz at googlemail.com>
CC: stable at kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux at dominikbrodowski.net>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Fritz <chf.fritz at googlemail.com>
---
 drivers/pcmcia/pcmcia_resource.c |    5 ++++-
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/pcmcia/pcmcia_resource.c b/drivers/pcmcia/pcmcia_resource.c
index d48437f..54aa1c2 100644
--- a/drivers/pcmcia/pcmcia_resource.c
+++ b/drivers/pcmcia/pcmcia_resource.c
@@ -677,7 +677,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__pcmcia_request_exclusive_irq);
 #ifdef CONFIG_PCMCIA_PROBE
 
 /* mask of IRQs already reserved by other cards, we should avoid using them */
-static u8 pcmcia_used_irq[NR_IRQS];
+static u8 pcmcia_used_irq[32];
 
 static irqreturn_t test_action(int cpl, void *dev_id)
 {
@@ -700,6 +700,9 @@ static int pcmcia_setup_isa_irq(struct pcmcia_device *p_dev, int type)
 	for (try = 0; try < 64; try++) {
 		irq = try % 32;
 
+		if (irq > NR_IRQS)
+			continue;
+
 		/* marked as available by driver, not blocked by userspace? */
 		if (!((mask >> irq) & 1))
 			continue;
-- 
1.7.0.4




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