]> git.ipfire.org Git - thirdparty/kernel/stable.git/commitdiff
batman-adv: Only write requested number of byte to user buffer
authorSven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Tue, 19 Mar 2013 11:36:50 +0000 (12:36 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 5 Apr 2013 17:16:38 +0000 (10:16 -0700)
commit b5a1eeef04cc7859f34dec9b72ea1b28e4aba07c upstream.

Don't write more than the requested number of bytes of an batman-adv icmp
packet to the userspace buffer. Otherwise unrelated userspace memory might get
overridden by the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
net/batman-adv/icmp_socket.c

index 88c310aacc401d61d4e1391abd0e3a4eedc4622d..ad7d8b289abdbee51649fe06e8f415893f9d7540 100644 (file)
@@ -136,10 +136,9 @@ static ssize_t bat_socket_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf,
 
        spin_unlock_bh(&socket_client->lock);
 
-       error = copy_to_user(buf, &socket_packet->icmp_packet,
-                            socket_packet->icmp_len);
+       packet_len = min(count, socket_packet->icmp_len);
+       error = copy_to_user(buf, &socket_packet->icmp_packet, packet_len);
 
-       packet_len = socket_packet->icmp_len;
        kfree(socket_packet);
 
        if (error)