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authorXi Wang2012-04-09 15:48:45 -0400
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman2012-04-17 15:54:57 -0700
commit8bde9a62ee74afa89f593c563e926d163b1f6ada (patch)
tree32b9daa28afaf5b93329ed4a8509602d2b5f6b2a /drivers/usb
parente65cdfae71cecec0fcd43a3f9ac8b5e4ae52db08 (diff)
usb: usbtest: avoid integer overflow in alloc_sglist()
A large `nents' from userspace could overflow the allocation size, leading to memory corruption. | alloc_sglist() | usbtest_ioctl() Use kmalloc_array() to avoid the overflow. Signed-off-by: Xi Wang <xi.wang@gmail.com> Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/usb')
-rw-r--r--drivers/usb/misc/usbtest.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/usb/misc/usbtest.c b/drivers/usb/misc/usbtest.c
index 967254afb6e8..cac67dea2bac 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/misc/usbtest.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/misc/usbtest.c
@@ -423,7 +423,7 @@ alloc_sglist(int nents, int max, int vary)
unsigned i;
unsigned size = max;
- sg = kmalloc(nents * sizeof *sg, GFP_KERNEL);
+ sg = kmalloc_array(nents, sizeof *sg, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!sg)
return NULL;
sg_init_table(sg, nents);