[RESEND PATCH v2] staging/wlan-ng: Fix potential buffer overflow in firmware handling

Sudip Mukherjee sudipm.mukherjee at gmail.com
Mon Oct 12 11:02:17 UTC 2015


On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 09:56:16PM +0200, Tillmann Heidsieck wrote:
> This patch fixes a potential buffer overflow detected by smatch.
> 
> pda16 has length 512, while processing an element with index < 512 we
> are checking for an end marker in the next element. This poses a
> potential buffer overflow if no end marker is present.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tillmann Heidsieck <theidsieck at leenox.de>
> ---

Confused.
This you have already sent previously and has already been merged by
Greg.
4ccb726c728c ("staging: wlan-ng fix buffer overflow in firmware handling")

Signed-off-by: Tillmann Heidsieck <theidsieck at leenox.de>
Dated: Wed Sep 23

regards
sudip


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