From: Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
This patch (as1401) fixes a bug in usb_sg_init() that can cause an
invalid pointer dereference. An inner loop reuses some local variables
in an unsafe manner, so new variables are introduced.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Ajay Kumar Gupta <ajay.gupta@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>
---
drivers/usb/core/message.c | 7 +++++--
1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/usb/core/message.c b/drivers/usb/core/message.c
index a73e08f..fd4c36e 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/core/message.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/core/message.c
@@ -416,8 +416,11 @@ int usb_sg_init(struct usb_sg_request *io, struct usb_device *dev,
/* A length of zero means transfer the whole sg list */
len = length;
if (len == 0) {
- for_each_sg(sg, sg, nents, i)
- len += sg->length;
+ struct scatterlist *sg2;
+ int j;
+
+ for_each_sg(sg, sg2, nents, j)
+ len += sg2->length;
}
} else {
/*
--
1.7.1
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