[hardy CVE 1/1] fs/partitions: Validate map_count in Mac partition tables

Andy Whitcroft apw at canonical.com
Wed Jul 13 14:29:44 UTC 2011


From: Timo Warns <warns at pre-sense.de>

Validate number of blocks in map and remove redundant variable.

Signed-off-by: Timo Warns <warns at pre-sense.de>
Cc: stable at kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>

(backported from commit fa7ea87a057958a8b7926c1a60a3ca6d696328ed)
CVE-2011-1010
BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/804225
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw at canonical.com>
---
 fs/partitions/mac.c |   15 ++++++++-------
 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/partitions/mac.c b/fs/partitions/mac.c
index d4a0fad..ba45eaf 100644
--- a/fs/partitions/mac.c
+++ b/fs/partitions/mac.c
@@ -29,10 +29,9 @@ static inline void mac_fix_string(char *stg, int len)
 
 int mac_partition(struct parsed_partitions *state, struct block_device *bdev)
 {
-	int slot = 1;
 	Sector sect;
 	unsigned char *data;
-	int blk, blocks_in_map;
+	int slot, blocks_in_map;
 	unsigned secsize;
 #ifdef CONFIG_PPC_PMAC
 	int found_root = 0;
@@ -61,8 +60,12 @@ int mac_partition(struct parsed_partitions *state, struct block_device *bdev)
 	}
 	printk(" [mac]");
 	blocks_in_map = be32_to_cpu(part->map_count);
-	for (blk = 1; blk <= blocks_in_map; ++blk) {
-		int pos = blk * secsize;
+	if (blocks_in_map < 0 || blocks_in_map >= 256) {
+		put_dev_sector(sect);
+		return 0;
+	}
+	for (slot = 1; slot <= blocks_in_map; ++slot) {
+		int pos = slot * secsize;
 		put_dev_sector(sect);
 		data = read_dev_sector(bdev, pos/512, &sect);
 		if (!data)
@@ -113,13 +116,11 @@ int mac_partition(struct parsed_partitions *state, struct block_device *bdev)
 			}
 
 			if (goodness > found_root_goodness) {
-				found_root = blk;
+				found_root = slot;
 				found_root_goodness = goodness;
 			}
 		}
 #endif /* CONFIG_PPC_PMAC */
-
-		++slot;
 	}
 #ifdef CONFIG_PPC_PMAC
 	if (found_root_goodness)
-- 
1.7.4.1





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