[PATCH] STAGING:iio:light: V2 fix out of bounds reg_cache[] access

Jonathan Cameron jic23 at cam.ac.uk
Wed Aug 31 13:41:11 UTC 2011


On 08/31/11 00:55, Grant Grundler wrote:
> V2 Fix out-of-bounds reference to reg_cache[]
> 
> Simple fix is to just not cache REG_TEST (offset 8).
> Cache doesn't help REG_TEST anyway since we write all 8 bits exactly once
> (at resume/init time).
> 
> Also fix an "off-by-one" allocation of reg_cache[] array size that
> was in the original code before I touched it.
> 
Looks good to me. Thanks.
> Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <error27 at gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Grant Grundler <grundler at chromium.org>
Acked-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23 at cam.ac.uk>
> 
> ----
> Thanks again to Dan Carpenter for spotting the out-of-bounds array reference.
> V2 preserves "don't touch reg_cache[] on error" behavior.
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/iio/light/isl29018.c b/drivers/staging/iio/light/isl29018.c
> index 0f97734..b24d28c 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/iio/light/isl29018.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/iio/light/isl29018.c
> @@ -51,7 +51,7 @@
>  
>  #define ISL29018_REG_ADD_DATA_LSB	0x02
>  #define ISL29018_REG_ADD_DATA_MSB	0x03
> -#define ISL29018_MAX_REGS		ISL29018_REG_ADD_DATA_MSB
> +#define ISL29018_MAX_REGS		(ISL29018_REG_ADD_DATA_MSB+1)
>  
>  #define ISL29018_REG_TEST		0x08
>  #define ISL29018_TEST_SHIFT		0
> @@ -71,22 +71,27 @@ struct isl29018_chip {
>  static int isl29018_write_data(struct i2c_client *client, u8 reg,
>  			u8 val, u8 mask, u8 shift)
>  {
> -	u8 regval;
> -	int ret = 0;
> +	u8 regval = val;
> +	int ret;
>  	struct isl29018_chip *chip = i2c_get_clientdata(client);
>  
> -	regval = chip->reg_cache[reg];
> -	regval &= ~mask;
> -	regval |= val << shift;
> +	/* don't cache or mask REG_TEST */
> +	if (reg < ISL29018_MAX_REGS) {
> +		regval = chip->reg_cache[reg];
> +		regval &= ~mask;
> +		regval |= val << shift;
> +	}
>  
>  	ret = i2c_smbus_write_byte_data(client, reg, regval);
> -	if (ret) {
> +	if (ret)
>  		dev_err(&client->dev, "Write to device fails status %x\n", ret);
> -		return ret;
> +	else {
> +		/* don't update cache on err */
> +		if (reg < ISL29018_MAX_REGS)
> +			chip->reg_cache[reg] = regval;
>  	}
> -	chip->reg_cache[reg] = regval;
>  
> -	return 0;
> +	return ret;
>  }
>  
>  static int isl29018_set_range(struct i2c_client *client, unsigned long range,




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