bcm driver copies a buffer length provided by userpace without checking it. RxCntrlMsgBitMask is of type unsigned long so only makes sense to copy sizeof(unsigned long) bytes. Also, copy_from_user() returns the number of bytes that could not be copied. The driver is returning that value as error code instead of -EFAULT. This patch solves both issues. Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <martinez.javier@xxxxxxxxx> --- Dan, Stephen, This patch only changes the code needed to solve the bugs commented before and just ignore the surrounding code since there are so many style issues. In later patches I can clean up the driver since only checkpatch reports 933 errors and 544 warnings. drivers/staging/bcm/Bcmchar.c | 7 +++++++ 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/bcm/Bcmchar.c b/drivers/staging/bcm/Bcmchar.c index 31674ea..7dff283 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/bcm/Bcmchar.c +++ b/drivers/staging/bcm/Bcmchar.c @@ -2024,6 +2024,12 @@ static long bcm_char_ioctl(struct file *filp, UINT cmd, ULONG arg) if(Status) { BCM_DEBUG_PRINT(Adapter,DBG_TYPE_OTHERS, OSAL_DBG, DBG_LVL_ALL,"copy of Ioctl buffer is failed from user space"); + Status = -EFAULT; + break; + } + + if (IoBuffer.InputLength != sizeof(unsigned long)) { + Status = -EINVAL; break; } @@ -2031,6 +2037,7 @@ static long bcm_char_ioctl(struct file *filp, UINT cmd, ULONG arg) if(Status) { BCM_DEBUG_PRINT(Adapter,DBG_TYPE_OTHERS, OSAL_DBG, DBG_LVL_ALL,"copy of control bit mask failed from user space"); + Status = -EFAULT; break; } BCM_DEBUG_PRINT(Adapter,DBG_TYPE_OTHERS, OSAL_DBG, DBG_LVL_ALL,"\n Got user defined cntrl msg bit mask :%lx", RxCntrlMsgBitMask); -- 1.7.0.4 _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel