loff_t is a signed type. If userspace passes a negative ppos, the "count" range check is weakened. "count"s bigger than HPEE_MAX_LENGTH will pass the check. Also, if ppos is negative, the readb(eisa_eeprom_addr + *ppos) will poke in random memory. Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx --- Patch is untested due to lack of hardware. --- drivers/parisc/eisa_eeprom.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/parisc/eisa_eeprom.c +++ linux-2.6/drivers/parisc/eisa_eeprom.c @@ -48,21 +48,21 @@ static loff_t eisa_eeprom_llseek(struct return (offset >= 0 && offset < HPEE_MAX_LENGTH) ? (file->f_pos = offset) : -EINVAL; } static ssize_t eisa_eeprom_read(struct file * file, char __user *buf, size_t count, loff_t *ppos ) { unsigned char *tmp; ssize_t ret; int i; - if (*ppos >= HPEE_MAX_LENGTH) + if (*ppos < 0 || *ppos >= HPEE_MAX_LENGTH) return 0; count = *ppos + count < HPEE_MAX_LENGTH ? count : HPEE_MAX_LENGTH - *ppos; tmp = kmalloc(count, GFP_KERNEL); if (tmp) { for (i = 0; i < count; i++) tmp[i] = readb(eisa_eeprom_addr+(*ppos)++); if (copy_to_user (buf, tmp, count)) ret = -EFAULT; -- Greetings, Michael. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-parisc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html