If the server is malicious then *bytes_read could be larger than the
size of the "target" buffer.  It would lead to memory corruption when we
do the memcpy().

Reported-by: Dr Silvio Cesare of InfoSect <Silvio Cesare 
<silvio.ces...@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpen...@oracle.com>

diff --git a/drivers/staging/ncpfs/ncplib_kernel.c 
b/drivers/staging/ncpfs/ncplib_kernel.c
index 804adfebba2f..3e047eb4cc7c 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/ncpfs/ncplib_kernel.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/ncpfs/ncplib_kernel.c
@@ -981,6 +981,10 @@ ncp_read_kernel(struct ncp_server *server, const char 
*file_id,
                goto out;
        }
        *bytes_read = ncp_reply_be16(server, 0);
+       if (*bytes_read > to_read) {
+               result = -EINVAL;
+               goto out;
+       }
        source = ncp_reply_data(server, 2 + (offset & 1));
 
        memcpy(target, source, *bytes_read);

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