This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ipr: Fix out-of-bounds null overwrite to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: ipr-fix-out-of-bounds-null-overwrite.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From d63c7dd5bcb9441af0526d370c43a65ca2c980d9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Insu Yun <wuninsu@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2016 12:44:01 -0500 Subject: ipr: Fix out-of-bounds null overwrite From: Insu Yun <wuninsu@xxxxxxxxx> commit d63c7dd5bcb9441af0526d370c43a65ca2c980d9 upstream. Return value of snprintf is not bound by size value, 2nd argument. (https://www.kernel.org/doc/htmldocs/kernel-api/API-snprintf.html). Return value is number of printed chars, can be larger than 2nd argument. Therefore, it can write null byte out of bounds ofbuffer. Since snprintf puts null, it does not need to put additional null byte. Signed-off-by: Insu Yun <wuninsu@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Shane Seymour <shane.seymour@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/scsi/ipr.c | 5 ++--- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/scsi/ipr.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/ipr.c @@ -4003,13 +4003,12 @@ static ssize_t ipr_store_update_fw(struc struct ipr_sglist *sglist; char fname[100]; char *src; - int len, result, dnld_size; + int result, dnld_size; if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) return -EACCES; - len = snprintf(fname, 99, "%s", buf); - fname[len-1] = '\0'; + snprintf(fname, sizeof(fname), "%s", buf); if (request_firmware(&fw_entry, fname, &ioa_cfg->pdev->dev)) { dev_err(&ioa_cfg->pdev->dev, "Firmware file %s not found\n", fname); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from wuninsu@xxxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/ipr-fix-regression-when-loading-firmware.patch queue-4.4/ipr-fix-out-of-bounds-null-overwrite.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html