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SubjectRe: [patch] max17042_battery: fix a couple buffer overflows
On 03/15/2012 04:37 AM, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> There are a couple issues here caused by confusion between sizeof()
> and ARRAY_SIZE(). "table_size" should be the number of elements, but we
> should allocate it with kcalloc() so that we allocate the correct number
> of bytes.
>
> In max17042_init_model() we don't allocate enough space so we go past
> the end of the array in max17042_read_model_data() and
> max17042_model_data_compare().
>
> In max17042_verify_model_lock() we allocate the right amount of space
> but we call max17042_read_model_data() with the wrong number of elements
> and also in the for loop we go past the end of the array.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter<dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Dirk Brandewie <dirk.brandewie@gmail.com>

Typo in first ack :-(
> ---
> I don't have this hardware. The original code is clearly buggy, but I
> can't test that my fix is correct. Please review carefully.
>
> diff --git a/drivers/power/max17042_battery.c b/drivers/power/max17042_battery.c
> index e36763a..f8cd48c 100644
> --- a/drivers/power/max17042_battery.c
> +++ b/drivers/power/max17042_battery.c
> @@ -328,11 +328,10 @@ static inline int max17042_model_data_compare(struct max17042_chip *chip,
> static int max17042_init_model(struct max17042_chip *chip)
> {
> int ret;
> - int table_size =
> - sizeof(chip->pdata->config_data->cell_char_tbl)/sizeof(u16);
> + int table_size = ARRAY_SIZE(chip->pdata->config_data->cell_char_tbl);
> u16 *temp_data;
>
> - temp_data = kzalloc(table_size, GFP_KERNEL);
> + temp_data = kcalloc(table_size, sizeof(*temp_data), GFP_KERNEL);
> if (!temp_data)
> return -ENOMEM;
>
> @@ -357,12 +356,11 @@ static int max17042_init_model(struct max17042_chip *chip)
> static int max17042_verify_model_lock(struct max17042_chip *chip)
> {
> int i;
> - int table_size =
> - sizeof(chip->pdata->config_data->cell_char_tbl);
> + int table_size = ARRAY_SIZE(chip->pdata->config_data->cell_char_tbl);
> u16 *temp_data;
> int ret = 0;
>
> - temp_data = kzalloc(table_size, GFP_KERNEL);
> + temp_data = kcalloc(table_size, sizeof(*temp_data), GFP_KERNEL);
> if (!temp_data)
> return -ENOMEM;
>



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