[PATCH RESEND] ath10k: fix out of bounds access to local buffer

Michael Mera dev at michaelmera.com
Mon Apr 24 00:11:57 PDT 2017


During write to debugfs file simulate_fw_crash, fixed-size local buffer
'buf' is accessed and modified at index 'count-1', where 'count' is the
size of the write (so potentially out of bounds).
This patch fixes this problem.

Signed-off-by: Michael Mera <dev at michaelmera.com>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/debug.c | 16 ++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/debug.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/debug.c
index fb0ade3adb07..7f3c17e55693 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/debug.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/debug.c
@@ -628,17 +628,21 @@ static ssize_t ath10k_write_simulate_fw_crash(struct file *file,
 					      size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
 {
 	struct ath10k *ar = file->private_data;
-	char buf[32];
+	char buf[32] = {0};
+	ssize_t rc;
 	int ret;
 
-	simple_write_to_buffer(buf, sizeof(buf) - 1, ppos, user_buf, count);
+	/* filter partial writes and invalid commands */
+	if (*ppos != 0 || count >= sizeof(buf) || count == 0)
+		return -EINVAL;
 
-	/* make sure that buf is null terminated */
-	buf[sizeof(buf) - 1] = 0;
+	rc = simple_write_to_buffer(buf, sizeof(buf)-1, ppos, user_buf, count);
+	if (rc < 0)
+		return rc;
 
 	/* drop the possible '\n' from the end */
-	if (buf[count - 1] == '\n')
-		buf[count - 1] = 0;
+	if (buf[*ppos - 1] == '\n')
+		buf[*ppos - 1] = '\0';
 
 	mutex_lock(&ar->conf_mutex);
 
-- 
2.9.3




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