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authorDavi Arnaut <davi.arnaut@gmail.com>2006-02-01 03:06:40 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-02-01 08:53:25 -0800
commit172411f10c25bbd81b19f67566af6a7f549f46a9 (patch)
tree1a4bf56e53fdc6ea51cc2a72957e0eee710a284f /drivers
parent46d0d2c811c8e9dd5cffdc3a5c03d988eb5a2996 (diff)
[PATCH] ebcdic do_kdsk_ioctl off-by-one
Add a missing return check from strnlen_user and fixes a off-by-one when terminating the string with zero. Signed-off-by: Davi Arnaut <davi.arnaut@gmail.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/s390/char/keyboard.c6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/s390/char/keyboard.c b/drivers/s390/char/keyboard.c
index 5bda2340a39..a317a123dab 100644
--- a/drivers/s390/char/keyboard.c
+++ b/drivers/s390/char/keyboard.c
@@ -440,7 +440,11 @@ do_kdgkb_ioctl(struct kbd_data *kbd, struct kbsentry __user *u_kbs,
return -EPERM;
len = strnlen_user(u_kbs->kb_string,
sizeof(u_kbs->kb_string) - 1);
- p = kmalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!len)
+ return -EFAULT;
+ if (len > sizeof(u_kbs->kb_string) - 1)
+ return -EINVAL;
+ p = kmalloc(len + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!p)
return -ENOMEM;
if (copy_from_user(p, u_kbs->kb_string, len)) {