We test for an END marker in the element beyond the current one, this
effectively limits the size of the array to be HFA384x_PDA_LEN_MAX/2 - 1
not HFA384x_PDR_END_OF_PDA/2. This patch fixes a possible buffer
overflow in case there was no END marker.
Signed-off-by: Tillmann Heidsieck <theidsieck@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/staging/wlan-ng/prism2fw.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/prism2fw.c b/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/prism2fw.c
index fe36613..d357b7e 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/prism2fw.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/prism2fw.c
@@ -590,7 +590,7 @@ static int mkpdrlist(struct pda *pda)
pda->nrec = 0;
curroff = 0;
- while (curroff < (HFA384x_PDA_LEN_MAX / 2) &&
+ while (curroff < (HFA384x_PDA_LEN_MAX / 2 - 1) &&
le16_to_cpu(pda16[curroff + 1]) != HFA384x_PDR_END_OF_PDA) {
pda->rec[pda->nrec] = (hfa384x_pdrec_t *) &(pda16[curroff]);
@@ -626,7 +626,7 @@ static int mkpdrlist(struct pda *pda)
curroff += le16_to_cpu(pda16[curroff]) + 1;
}
- if (curroff >= (HFA384x_PDA_LEN_MAX / 2)) {
+ if (curroff >= (HFA384x_PDA_LEN_MAX / 2 - 1)) {
pr_err("no end record found or invalid lengths in PDR data, exiting. %x %d\n",
curroff, pda->nrec);
return 1;
--
2.5.3
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