On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 02:00:41PM +0530, Dan Carpenter wrote: > Hello Vasanthakumar, > > Smatch complains that in linux-next 60e0c3a7 "ath9k_hw: Eeeprom changes > for AR9485" means there is a potential read past the end of the buffer > int ar9300_eeprom_restore_internal(). > > drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ar9003_eeprom.c +3381 > ar9300_eeprom_restore_internal(81) > error: buffer overflow 'word' 2048 <= 4099 > > "word" is allocated with 2048 bytes: > word = kzalloc(2048, GFP_KERNEL); > > "length" can be up to 4099: > if ((!AR_SREV_9485(ah) && length >= 1024) || > (AR_SREV_9485(ah) && length >= (4 * 1024))) { > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > so "osize" can be up to 4099 as well: > osize = length; > > We're reading way past the end of the word array here: > mchecksum = word[COMP_HDR_LEN + osize] | > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > (word[COMP_HDR_LEN + osize + 1] << 8); > > I don't know how to fix this. Can you take a look? thanks for pointing this out. we shall look into this. > > regards, > dan carpenter > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html