3.0-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------ From: Paul Kot <[email protected]> commit c00b6856fc642b234895cfabd15b289e76726430 upstream. Writing a icmp_packet_rr and then reading icmp_packet can lead to kernel memory corruption, if __user *buf is just below TASK_SIZE. Signed-off-by: Paul Kot <[email protected]> [[email protected]: made it checkpatch clean] Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> --- net/batman-adv/icmp_socket.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/net/batman-adv/icmp_socket.c +++ b/net/batman-adv/icmp_socket.c @@ -136,8 +136,8 @@ static ssize_t bat_socket_read(struct fi spin_unlock_bh(&socket_client->lock); - error = __copy_to_user(buf, &socket_packet->icmp_packet, - socket_packet->icmp_len); + error = copy_to_user(buf, &socket_packet->icmp_packet, + socket_packet->icmp_len); packet_len = socket_packet->icmp_len; kfree(socket_packet); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
