Re: [PATCH] mtd: nand: atmel: fix buffer overflow in atmel_pmecc_user

From	Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH] mtd: nand: atmel: fix buffer overflow in atmel_pmecc_user
Date	2017-09-28 11:50 +0200
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On Wed, 27 Sep 2017 14:49:17 +0200
Richard Genoud <richard.genoud@gmail.com> wrote:

> When calculating the size needed by struct atmel_pmecc_user *user,
> the dmu and delta buffer sizes were forgotten.
> This lead to a memory corruption (especially with a large ecc_strength).
> 
> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1506503157.3016.5.camel@gmail.com
> Fixes: f88fc122cc34 ("mtd: nand: Cleanup/rework the atmel_nand driver")
> Cc: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@microchip.com>
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Reported-by: Richard Genoud <richard.genoud@gmail.com>
> Pointed-at-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>
> Signed-off-by: Richard Genoud <richard.genoud@gmail.com>

Applied.

Thanks,

Boris

> ---
>  drivers/mtd/nand/atmel/pmecc.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/atmel/pmecc.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/atmel/pmecc.c
> index 146af8218314..8268636675ef 100644
> --- a/drivers/mtd/nand/atmel/pmecc.c
> +++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/atmel/pmecc.c
> @@ -363,7 +363,7 @@ atmel_pmecc_create_user(struct atmel_pmecc *pmecc,
>  	size += (req->ecc.strength + 1) * sizeof(u16);
>  	/* Reserve space for mu, dmu and delta. */
>  	size = ALIGN(size, sizeof(s32));
> -	size += (req->ecc.strength + 1) * sizeof(s32);
> +	size += (req->ecc.strength + 1) * sizeof(s32) * 3;
>  
>  	user = kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
>  	if (!user)
> 
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[PATCH] mtd: nand: atmel: fix buffer overflow in atmel_pmecc_user Richard Genoud <richard.genoud@gmail.com> - 2017-09-27 14:50 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] mtd: nand: atmel: fix buffer overflow in atmel_pmecc_user Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@microchip.com> - 2017-09-27 17:40 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] mtd: nand: atmel: fix buffer overflow in  atmel_pmecc_user Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com> - 2017-09-28 11:50 +0200

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