Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 21 Apr 2015 21:25:41 +0200 | From | Heinrich Schuchardt <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/1] drivers/usb/chipidea/debuc.c: avoid out of bound read |
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Hello Peter,
thanks for reviewing.
On 21.04.2015 03:32, Peter Chen wrote: > On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 08:04:13AM +0200, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote: >> A string written by the user may not be zero terminated. >> >> sscanf may read memory beyond the buffer if no zero byte >> is found. >> >> Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de> >> --- >> drivers/usb/chipidea/debug.c | 6 +++++- >> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) >> >> diff --git a/drivers/usb/chipidea/debug.c b/drivers/usb/chipidea/debug.c >> index dfb05ed..ef08af3 100644 >> --- a/drivers/usb/chipidea/debug.c >> +++ b/drivers/usb/chipidea/debug.c >> @@ -88,9 +88,13 @@ static ssize_t ci_port_test_write(struct file *file, const char __user *ubuf, >> char buf[32]; >> int ret; >> >> - if (copy_from_user(buf, ubuf, min_t(size_t, sizeof(buf) - 1, count))) >> + count = min_t(size_t, sizeof(buf) - 1, count); >> + if (copy_from_user(buf, ubuf, count)) >> return -EFAULT; > > Any reasons to change above?
Otherwise we would have two lines with the term min_t(size_t, sizeof(buf) - 1, count).
This would make the code harder to read.
>> >> + /* sscanf requires a zero terminated string */ >> + buf[count] = 0; >> + > > I prefer using '\0'
If you confirm the rest of the patch is ok, I will send an updated patch.
Best regards
Heinrich
> >> if (sscanf(buf, "%u", &mode) != 1) >> return -EINVAL; >>
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