From: Xi Wang <xi.wang@xxxxxxxxx> There is a potential integer overflow in do_insnlist_ioctl() if userspace passes in a large insnlist.n_insns. The call to kmalloc() would allocate a small buffer, leading to a memory corruption. The bug was reported by Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> and Haogang Chen <haogangchen@xxxxxxxxx>. The patch was suggested by Ian Abbott <abbotti@xxxxxxxxx> and Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@xxxxxxxxxx>. Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Haogang Chen <haogangchen@xxxxxxxxx>. Cc: Ian Abbott <abbotti@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Xi Wang <xi.wang@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx> --- drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c b/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c index ebdcecd..5e78c77 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c +++ b/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c @@ -671,7 +671,7 @@ static int do_insnlist_ioctl(struct comedi_device *dev, } insns = - kmalloc(sizeof(struct comedi_insn) * insnlist.n_insns, GFP_KERNEL); + kcalloc(insnlist.n_insns, sizeof(struct comedi_insn), GFP_KERNEL); if (!insns) { DPRINTK("kmalloc failed\n"); ret = -ENOMEM; -- 1.7.7.3 _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel