[PATCH 2/3] Staging: hv: mousevsc: Add a check to prevent memory corruption
K. Y. Srinivasan
kys at microsoft.com
Fri Oct 28 22:11:27 UTC 2011
Add a check to prevent memory corruption.
Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys at microsoft.com>
---
drivers/staging/hv/hv_mouse.c | 12 ++++++++++++
1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/staging/hv/hv_mouse.c b/drivers/staging/hv/hv_mouse.c
index 7c7449b..c22f729 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/hv/hv_mouse.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/hv/hv_mouse.c
@@ -274,6 +274,18 @@ static void mousevsc_on_receive(struct hv_device *device,
switch (hid_msg->header.type) {
case SYNTH_HID_PROTOCOL_RESPONSE:
+ /*
+ * While it will be impossible for us to protect against
+ * malicious/buggy hypervisor/host, add a check here to
+ * ensure we don't corrupt memory.
+ */
+ if ((pipe_msg->size + sizeof(struct pipe_prt_msg)
+ - sizeof(unsigned char))
+ > sizeof(struct mousevsc_prt_msg)) {
+ WARN_ON(1);
+ break;
+ }
+
memcpy(&input_dev->protocol_resp, pipe_msg,
pipe_msg->size + sizeof(struct pipe_prt_msg) -
sizeof(unsigned char));
--
1.7.4.1
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