[PATCH v2] Staging: bcm: Fix potential buffer overflow and style cleanups

[Dan Carpenter]

On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 02:12:28AM +0100, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
> +	case IOCTL_BCM_CNTRLMSG_MASK:
> +	{

This should be indented two tabs.  One for the function and one for the
switch statement.

> +		unsigned long RxCntrlMsgBitMask = 0;
> +
> +		/* Copy Ioctl Buffer structure */
> +		Status = copy_from_user(&IoBuffer, argp, sizeof(IOCTL_BUFFER));
> +		if (Status) {
> +			BCM_DEBUG_PRINT(Adapter, DBG_TYPE_OTHERS, OSAL_DBG, DBG_LVL_ALL,
> +					"copy of Ioctl buffer is failed from user space");
> +			Status = -EFAULT;
> +			break;
> +		}
>  
> -				/* Copy Ioctl Buffer structure */
> -				Status = copy_from_user(&IoBuffer, argp, sizeof(IOCTL_BUFFER));
> -				if(Status)
> -				{
> -					BCM_DEBUG_PRINT(Adapter,DBG_TYPE_OTHERS, OSAL_DBG, DBG_LVL_ALL,"copy of Ioctl buffer is failed from user space");
> -					break;
> -				}
> +		if (IoBuffer.InputLength > sizeof(unsigned long)) {

Personally I would say:
		if (IoBuffer.InputLength != sizeof(unsigned long)) {

There is no other size that makes sense here.  It's more helpful to
return an error directly.

regards,
dan carpenter