This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled scsi: arcmsr: Buffer overflow in arcmsr_iop_message_xfer() to the 4.8-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: scsi-arcmsr-buffer-overflow-in-arcmsr_iop_message_xfer.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.8 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 7bc2b55a5c030685b399bb65b6baa9ccc3d1f167 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 16:44:56 +0300 Subject: scsi: arcmsr: Buffer overflow in arcmsr_iop_message_xfer() From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 7bc2b55a5c030685b399bb65b6baa9ccc3d1f167 upstream. We need to put an upper bound on "user_len" so the memcpy() doesn't overflow. Reported-by: Marco Grassi <marco.gra@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Tomas Henzl <thenzl@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/scsi/arcmsr/arcmsr_hba.c | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/scsi/arcmsr/arcmsr_hba.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/arcmsr/arcmsr_hba.c @@ -2388,7 +2388,8 @@ static int arcmsr_iop_message_xfer(struc } case ARCMSR_MESSAGE_WRITE_WQBUFFER: { unsigned char *ver_addr; - int32_t user_len, cnt2end; + uint32_t user_len; + int32_t cnt2end; uint8_t *pQbuffer, *ptmpuserbuffer; ver_addr = kmalloc(ARCMSR_API_DATA_BUFLEN, GFP_ATOMIC); if (!ver_addr) { @@ -2397,6 +2398,11 @@ static int arcmsr_iop_message_xfer(struc } ptmpuserbuffer = ver_addr; user_len = pcmdmessagefld->cmdmessage.Length; + if (user_len > ARCMSR_API_DATA_BUFLEN) { + retvalue = ARCMSR_MESSAGE_FAIL; + kfree(ver_addr); + goto message_out; + } memcpy(ptmpuserbuffer, pcmdmessagefld->messagedatabuffer, user_len); spin_lock_irqsave(&acb->wqbuffer_lock, flags); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.8/scsi-arcmsr-simplify-user_len-checking.patch queue-4.8/scsi-arcmsr-buffer-overflow-in-arcmsr_iop_message_xfer.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