[PATCH] staging: speakup: ensure we do not overrun synths array

Colin King colin.king at canonical.com
Mon May 9 22:22:14 UTC 2016


From: Colin Ian King <colin.king at canonical.com>

synth_add allows one to add MAXSYNTHS synths to the synths array;
however it always NULLifies the next synth in the array which
means that on the MAXSYNTHS synth we get an out-of-bounds write of
the NULL to the synths array.  Make the synths array MAXSYNTHS + 1
elements in size to allow for the final NULL sentinal to avoid the
out-of-bounds write.

Issue found wit CoverityScan, CID#744671

Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/staging/speakup/synth.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/speakup/synth.c b/drivers/staging/speakup/synth.c
index 4f462c3..810a214 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/speakup/synth.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/speakup/synth.c
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 #include "serialio.h"
 
 #define MAXSYNTHS       16      /* Max number of synths in array. */
-static struct spk_synth *synths[MAXSYNTHS];
+static struct spk_synth *synths[MAXSYNTHS + 1];
 struct spk_synth *synth;
 char spk_pitch_buff[32] = "";
 static int module_status;
-- 
2.8.1



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