This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled nvmem: mxs-ocotp: fix buffer overflow in read to the 4.5-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: nvmem-mxs-ocotp-fix-buffer-overflow-in-read.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.5 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From d1306eb675ad7a9a760b6b8e8e189824b8db89e7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stanislav Meduna <stano@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 2 May 2016 16:05:11 +0100 Subject: nvmem: mxs-ocotp: fix buffer overflow in read From: Stanislav Meduna <stano@xxxxxxxxxx> commit d1306eb675ad7a9a760b6b8e8e189824b8db89e7 upstream. This patch fixes the issue where the mxs_ocotp_read is reading the ocotp in reg_size steps but decrements the remaining size by 1. The number of iterations is thus four times higher, overwriting the area behind the output buffer. Fixes: c01e9a11ab6f ("nvmem: add driver for ocotp in i.MX23 and i.MX28") Tested-by: Stefan Wahren <stefan.wahren@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Stanislav Meduna <stano@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/nvmem/mxs-ocotp.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/nvmem/mxs-ocotp.c +++ b/drivers/nvmem/mxs-ocotp.c @@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ static int mxs_ocotp_read(void *context, if (ret) goto close_banks; - while (val_size) { + while (val_size >= reg_size) { if ((offset < OCOTP_DATA_OFFSET) || (offset % 16)) { /* fill up non-data register */ *buf = 0; @@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ static int mxs_ocotp_read(void *context, } buf++; - val_size--; + val_size -= reg_size; offset += reg_size; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from stano@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.5/nvmem-mxs-ocotp-fix-buffer-overflow-in-read.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